Microsoft expect a PS3 price cut soon

MasFlowKiller - 349 days 8 hours ago

for a console double the price i think the ps3 is doing ok, a price cut would completely give EU back to sony(not counting the wii) but USA is hard to say. i think that USA gamer follow the media alot and well the media hate sony with a passion(Kotaku, Gametrailers to name a few) so its hard to say if a 299 ps3 would do as well as a 199 360, just look at 08, 360 gamer were happy with 2 game for the entire year while the ps3 gave quality title all year

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Saint Sony - 349 days 6 hours ago

Though, price drop would be pretty logical, but so far Sony has been totally illogical with PS3.

MS is clever, saying things like this will just eat PS3 sales. People start to wait the price cut now and PS3 looses sales. MS is trying to hit the final nail in PS3 coffin.

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shine1396 - 349 days 6 hours ago

or maybe he wants people to put off buying ps3s in the run up to febuary. why would people buy ps3s if they knew that a price cut is just round the corner? Aren't sales often lowest, the week before an announced price cut.

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Captain Tuttle - 349 days 3 hours ago

I think Saint Sony and Shine are right...MS just wants to keep the idea of price cuts for the PS3 out there so people hold off buying. Personally I don't think they'll happen until next holiday season...Sony has stated time and again that they're more concerned with profitability than with marketshare right now.

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chrisnick - 349 days 8 hours ago

it seems to be a bit of reverse psychology.....the majority of ppl who don't have a ps3 don't have it due to its price.....so if u tell me its gonna get a price cut soon, im gonna wait till it drops b4 i cave in and buy one now.......ahhh.....once again....ms in their own way calling ppl idiots.

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morganfell - 349 days 7 hours ago

Microsoft reps are making comments for two reasons.

1 - First they hope that it isn't true. Being cheap is the only 9 iron left in the MS bag. By making these remarks they want to lure SOny into making another official press release that says "No price cut planned for the first half of calendar 2009. This way they can have Sony provide reassurance for them that their only advantage is still present.

2 - Microsoft always prefaces bad news with comments and attempts to acknowledge before hand what will occur so it gives the appearance they are in control and were aware this or that was going to take place. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, we are in control. It's a minor bit of turbulence said the pilot...as the left wing flew off the plane...

They know as they are staring down the gun barrel that trying to prevent a major price driven PlayStation swing is the only thing they have left to save them.

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JeffGUNZ - 348 days 19 hours ago

That was the most hilarious post I have come across yet. The biggest fanboyism I have ever seen. You don't think if PS3 when to $300 that MS wouldn't drop theirs to $150. Sony is losing money on every system sold. Why do you think all these exclusives are coming out this year, it's their last ditch effort to break/even make profit...If they do make profit, then, and only then will there be a price drop. Sony is between a rock and a hard place right now. If they drop the price, sure some more people will buy it, but they will still be losing more money in the long haul. They need all these 2009 exclusives to sell big time, or Sony will fall further behind the 360. There is no doubt the PS3 has great hardware and great technology, but it's just not an econimcally sound console. This isn't Sonys generation, maybe the next console they will make a more realistic, affordable system for the masses. It's a shame, I always loved Sony, but the price of the PS3 compared to Xbox made me switch to Microsoft, and I am sure it did the same for a lot of people.

PS...Your analogies are awful and you should stop trying to use them, you just make yourself look juvenile.

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MasFlowKiller - 349 days 8 hours ago

I think it was stupid of Aaron Greenberg to say such a think, with the 360 09 lineup looking a bit dry and the ps3 lineup well not looking dry a price cut would be the icing on a cupcake

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Turbo Teddy - 349 days 2 hours ago

Don’t understand why he is getting all the disagrees? He is completely right. Its business 1 on 1. Every company is spending a lot of money preventing their competitors getting their inside knowledge. So Micrsosoft or Sony or Nintendo properly don’t know anything about each other’s future price strategies. It’s pure speculation. And “Joe public” can’t use this kind of information to anything. I’m hitting the agree button.

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CryofSilence - 349 days 8 hours ago

Agreed. They do have Alan Wake though (console exclusive, at least). I'm not counting the Halo spin-offs because I've never really liked Halo.

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a_cold_soul - 349 days 8 hours ago

MS did that when they got FFX13 and Tekken6 LMAO and then there's Alan Wake and I can't forget Star Ocean and who know what else MS got up there sleeves for E3.

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CryofSilence - 349 days 8 hours ago

I think he was referring to exclusives. Who knows?

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MasFlowKiller - 349 days 7 hours ago

the name of the game is
exclusive
if their were not exclusive then buying a ps3 would be pointless to a gamer, so becuase microsft has such poor first and second party they convince all third party to stop making exclusive

but i think a console is only ass good as the tittle you can play on them so that why 07 was the year of the 360, 08 was the year of the ps3 and 09 is looking to be the year of the ps3 too

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NinjaRyu - 349 days 8 hours ago

Just like the way every PS3 fanboys act like jealous girlfriend over the sight of every PS3 exclusive lose to the 360.

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Helghast Slayer - 349 days 5 hours ago

@ ^^^

So you rather have sloppy seconds huh? Exclusives are the new gem son, you'd better hope microsoft has some plan for your sake. Oh and i don't mean games that anyone can play on the pc also.

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ultimolu - 349 days 1 hour ago

Except those games were never exclusive in the first place.
Don't worry. PS3 fans have learned to accept the multiplatform business because at least we have first party games to look forward to.

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ButterToast - 349 days 8 hours ago

actually if people were thinking there would be a price cut soon they would be more likely to hold off on the purchase. causing sales numbers for Sony to drop. Crafty Bastards and their little mind f*ck tactics.

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MasFlowKiller - 349 days 7 hours ago

what is his game?

if his trying to work for sony its not going to work tried and their not hiring

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Halochampian - 349 days 7 hours ago

MS knows business better than you think.

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darkdoom3000 - 347 days 9 hours ago

wow, never thought of that. it has the possiblity of working both ways.

-possible PS3 buyers wait for a while.
-possible x360 buyers, who wanted to buy a PS3, but the price was the barrier would wait for the "price drop"

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MasFlowKiller - 349 days 7 hours ago

do u mean the blow the took with the 130% rise in sale for the month of Dec year to year?

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AclayPS3 - 349 days 7 hours ago

I think they are worrying what Sony is doing price wise because a PS3 price cut would boost sales significantly in all 3 major territories.

The Xbox 360 price cut for the most part mainly boosted 360 sales a lot in the U.S... the 360 price cut did help the 360 in Europe, but the impact wasn't as big as the U.S. In Japan, the 360 price cut has barely helped it at all. The only thing that has pushed 360 sales in Japan is the JRPG's, not price.

The PS3 had been outperforming the 360 well before the more recent price cut at a higher price in Europe, and the PS3 has sold almost the same amount in Europe than the 360 despite costing a lot more and launching a year earlier.

I'm pretty sure that Microsoft also knows that Final Fantasy XIII and Versus XIII + PS3 price cuts will do huge numbers for the PS3 in Japan this year... I wouldn't be surprised if the PS3 sells between 2-3 million consoles in Japan alone this year with the release of the next 2 Final Fantasy installments.

I think it's possible that the PS3 will get a price cut within the next 2-3 months in the U.S., but for Europe I think it will come a little bit later because David Reeves has already shot down rumors about the PS3 getting a price cut in March.

In terms of a Worldwide Basis, there's a lot to give when it comes to the PS3, and I'm sure that Microsoft realizes it.

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Halochampian - 349 days 7 hours ago

You always keep your eye on the competition. Especially if the guy behind you is the champion for the past decade.

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AngryHippo - 349 days 3 hours ago

....you should never underestimate the competition, and should ALWAYS keep an eye on what they are doing. If you don't, you get lazy and that is when out of nowhere you end up 8million consoles sales behind second place, and a heck of a lot more from first place.

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GarandShooter - 348 days 22 hours ago

Or maybe you get lazy and instead of proper R&D and QA you rush to release first and suddenly you're a billion+ dollars in the hole due to faulty hardware

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darkdoom3000 - 347 days 9 hours ago

"Keep your friends close. Keep your enemies closer"

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Godmars290 - 349 days 7 hours ago

Well, its not like they'll have GAMES ready to go against a PS3 price drop...

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Graphics Whore - 349 days 7 hours ago

At this point Microsoft needs games that's about it.

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NinjaRyu - 349 days 7 hours ago

how do you know they have no games? Do you work for MS? If you learn anything from this console round it that MS always has a ace in the hole to keep themselfs in the console wars, just like sony does!

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micro_invader - 349 days ago

Ha, I meant to say, a price drop in Europe would definitely benefit Sony. What's with all the disagrees, Is it because I had "360" in my sentence?

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GarandShooter - 348 days 22 hours ago

Perhaps it will backfire. Possibly people who were going to buy a 360 instead of a PS3 will now buy neither, waiting for the PS3 price drop.

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NegativeCreep427 - 349 days 5 hours ago

The Real Gamer would look at your blatant display of idiocy mixed with fanboyism and laugh at you with both feelings of pity and contempt.

Calling the PS3 nothing but an "overpriced movieplayer" just shows your lack of insight and your blind allegiance to an emotion-less corporation.

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j4gs14 - 349 days 3 hours ago

only because microsoft failed with their movie player. no need to hate. btw when would you consider the start?? pong?

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Boty - 348 days 13 hours ago

You NOOB.

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apena89 - 348 days 12 hours ago

it's only been a little over 2 years OUT OF 10+!! and it's going on a second price drop.

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