07-09-2007
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| THE CAKE IS A LIE
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I already read this earlier, but I'd like to quote a post from another forum I visit, as it's an excellent post as to how the business is going right now : Quote: MS/Sony price war looming
Sony - $499 for the 20GB model PS3 (discontinued), $599 for the 60GB model.
MS - $299 for the core system (no hard drive), $399 for the premium (20GB HDD), and $479 for the Elite (120GB HDD).
However, there's about to be a shake up, beginning on July 12th. Not just prices, but new SKUs entirely. NOTE, the PS2 60GB model drops to this price on July 12th. The rest of these changes occur between now and November.
Sony:
60GB model - $499
80GB model - $599, comes with Motorstorm and new sixxaxis controller with rumble.
Note, the 20GB model has ceased production, and should already be sold out.
Microsoft:
Core (no HDD) - $249
Premium (20GB) - $349
Elite (120GB) - $399
These, starting in September/October timeframe, will be new XBox 360 "Falcon" systems. Project Falcon is a new version that has 65nm CPU/GPU, which means less heat, lower cost, and MUCH lower defect rates. Reducing the size of components is normal, and this system will not have any compatibility issues with the older system.
I intend to get an Elite this Christmas, if the reliability reports are better. NOTE: The new Elite SKU will be white, not black like the current limited edition Elite.
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Why would people cry that the PS3 is still too expensive and yet back up the glories of PC gaming? I've seen video cards alone that run to $600 to get the same look as a PS3/360. Then it'll go haywire six months later even if you think you've got the talent to put your own box together.
I don't see a 360 price drop coming in response to this. Microsoft does not have the magical oceans of cash money that everybody seems to think. It's kinda hard to walk up to your stockholders and say "XBox 360 is not selling well, the Zune is, to put it mildly, a miserable failure, Vista is not catching on yet, and 360 repair prices are going to total $1.15 billion. Can we cut the price on the 360 and buy all of these companies that teh intarwebz say we have the acres and acres of solid gold money to buy just so we can stay in a 'mine's bigger than yours' fight with Sony"?
Things haven't gone as swimmingly for Microsoft as everybody thinks, and I don't think they'd be willing to widen the gap between sale price and production price, when $400 seems to be a reasonable asking price for the system anyway.
| Should be interesting...but you do have to ask yourself...will M$ drop the price even with Halo 3's release lingering...because as we all know, Halo is the money maker... |
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