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goddog on 14 December 2008
RPG said:
goddog said:
RPG said:
Which internal devs are preforming badly for Sony?

 

well as not having access to their financials I can not tell you. however sony should know who is costing them money in terms of development cost vs sales, and who is under performing.... they have the largest number 1st party dev teams, and in the current state of their platform something has got to give.  

 

another route if sony does not want to cut devs, is not to make sequels to under performing IPs

 

Am sure you could make an estimation looking at the sales of a game and production values, it's pretty easy to tell which studios are or are not doing well. I have not kept track of games released by first party studios but do know GT5 and GOW 3 are coming.

 

neither have I the man to ask is bumidan, his write ups on financials have been fantastic 



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libellule on 14 December 2008

to OP :

I truly dont know

the Xbox360 sales are now so amazing to me ....



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Strategyking92 on 14 December 2008

for the first week of the price drop - maybe.

Overall no though.

I think all of these "hopes"  ps3 fans have are ridiculous. Well, they can get that way at least.



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colonelstubbs on 14 December 2008

The 360 would still be cheaper than the PS3 unless sony went bonkers and dropped the price to $100. So surely the better option would still be the 360?



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papflesje on 14 December 2008

So surely the better option would still be the 360?


That's merely a matter of opinion.

As many sony fans here have already said, they were more than willing to dish out extra money for what the PS3 has to offer ("more" in their eyes), and even some people who do not have a ps3 have said they were willing to do the same if the price dropped 50 or 100.

So the xbox with a lower price point being the better option, is not necessarily true :)



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Fumanchu on 14 December 2008

I think it was reported not long ago that 50% of current 360 sales have been the entry priced sku - arcade. I don't think $350 vs $199 offers a whole lot more competition.



Pete_Beast on 14 December 2008

I don0t knowm the question is hard, If the price was dropped the battle between the two would be quiet amusing. It'd be something to really enjoy. I think it won't, but a part of mesays it still could.



swearitsoul on 14 December 2008

Point is I think at this stage Sony don't care if they come third as long as they maintain a profit...



blazinhead89 on 14 December 2008
Onyxmeth said:
blazinhead89 said:
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It depends how much the price cut is. Are we talking $50? $100? $200? Each would likely have different results. Also are we talking about this in the terms that once Sony does cut the price of the PS3 that Microsoft doesn't follow suit?

 

IMO, the 360 could follow suit but seeing as IT is ALREADY Mass Market price, a further price cut wont have as big as an effect. PS3 Has yet to enjoy the Mass Market Price whereas 360 has.

That goes back to my original question. How big are we expecting this price cut to be? $50 isn't going to bring the PS3 into mass market price. Even $100 is arguable considering that PS3 has lost it's advantage as the cheap Blu-Ray player. So what do you feel will put the PS3 into a mass market price range?

 


i'd say it would have to be around the 300$ Mark

BenVTrigger on 14 December 2008

to be honest i think ps3 would start outselling it for a couple months and then microsoft would just drop the price again to combat it. The thing is Sony has much more to lose from a price drop (profit wise) than microsoft