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Staude on 31 December 2008

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colonelstubbs on 31 December 2008

Id love there to be a price cut, to make things a bit more competitive, and to see whether the 360 is really outselling the ps3 because people think its a better console or because of its price...



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Alby_da_Wolf on 31 December 2008
Spankey said:
makingmusic476 said:
hsrob said:
I can't see it happening before the end of the financial year but i guess Killzone time would be as good as any if they are determined to do it early in the year. Too close to the start of the year though and they risk pissing off the large number of people who picked the system through the holiday period.

 

The very beginning of the next financial year would be the most likely date for a price cut, imo.

 

so +/- April? sounds about right to me, at least in Japan.

First though, maybe they should think of pushing software through more advertising in the Q4, and then drop the Ps3 price slightly in Japan, increase the advertising again, drop price slightly in EU until dropping a $40-$60 price drop in NA and WW in Sony's Q2 (end calendar year 2009)

Easter (very) next year is 12 April, so a cut right before could benefit sales during holidays, that range from short like here in Italy to quite long (but not as long as summer holidays that added to good weather cause a cut to most normal activities, including indoor hobbies) in other countries.

 



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makingmusic476 on 31 December 2008

Pachter predicts a cut for April 1st.



Snake612 on 31 December 2008

The second half has a better line-up than the first half of 2009.



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Kzoellner on 31 December 2008

Good stuff. About time someone made some reasonable sense on here about sony.



misterd on 31 December 2008
makingmusic476 said:
Pachter predicts a cut for April 1st.

If we can only get Bruceongames to agree, we'll know no cut is coming until 2011.

 



makingmusic476 on 31 December 2008
misterd said:
makingmusic476 said:
Pachter predicts a cut for April 1st.

If we can only get Bruceongames to agree, we'll know no cut is coming until 2011.

 

 

A bit optimistic, eh?



DMeisterJ on 31 December 2008

I'm positive there will be a price cut within the first six months of the year. And another one if the first one is only fifty bucks, like I suspect.



NJ5 on 31 December 2008
DMeisterJ said:
I'm positive there will be a price cut within the first six months of the year. And another one if the first one is only fifty bucks, like I suspect.

Shall we have a bet? :)

There could be a $50 price cut in the first half of the year, but I would still bet against it.

 



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