well a £299 ps3 was more attractive to buyers than a £169 - £199 - £299 360(using uk £ to make it easier) most of last year.

but against a £129 - £169 - £279 360, its much more harder.

i would say a £229 ps3 will sell more than the 360 sku`s, but microsoft could drop the price of thier arcade to £99, i dont think they would drop the other 2 hardrive equipped models to much. mabey add extra value to them and keep them at same price whilst arcade could be dropped.

Then what answer do you want Kowenicki? PS3 came off a price drop late 2007 and the console sold better, another price drop and the sales for the console will increase again.

It does not require much thinking, common sense at its absolute finest. 360 was not doing as well as PS3 until a price drop came along, same will go for the PS3.

@skeeuk, the 360 can indeed go to $99 but you see the PS3 is at a point where the only reason it is not selling well is the price and the only reason the 360 is selling well is the price. The PS3 price issue will be fixed in time and all that can be done in that time is decrease bleeding with big games.

When the 360 goes to $99 the PS3 will probably be _____ but whatever the number it will be lower than the $400 price it is now so people will be more willing to go with the PS3 instead of saying "nope too expensive 360 it is".

Your analogies do not work in this discussion. The reason target makes money when selling more toys is because it is making profit on the other items it sells, unless you think Target is only a game store. The same is true of microsoft. The bulk of its business is not the game division. Now, Sony on the other hand, has other divions that lose far more money than the game division is right now. Add to that the fact that the game division is not doing well in a time when it is harder to write off losses means that the company is not doing well.

In all fairness I remember mid 08 the 360 is doomed threads and the beast is unleashed.
What goes round comes around.
No doubt it will swing the other way sooner or later.

How so? :/

Ah reask so the 360 did also get a lot of grief before as the PS3 is doing so now, time will once again come when it goes the other way and the cycle will continue. :(

They should have dropped the price in November. Silly Sony. A price cut is needed real badly.

No need to start getting flippant.

Montana is just asking that people stop restarting conversations that have already been explored to death.

Nothing is going to change for Sony sales-wise until a pricecut, and considering how that's only likely to come in Fall 09, I might take a break from this site because I really will get bored if the next 7 months of threads are a rerun of the last 3...

But sure isnt that why we all love this site.

And it seems you missed my point. We've had this discussion dozens of times and it always, always has the same answer. The price is too high, but Sony can't cut it without taking huge losses. Some person who thinks he's smart makes some commentary about the world economy. I die a little inside. Rinse and repeat.

It's funny though, as many times as this topic comes up, when it does, it still gets tonnes of responses that look as though they haven't read this thread let alone the previous threads. For example, people saying that they should have cut the price, when it doesn't take a brilliantly aware analyst to realize that it's not that simple.