How will the Playstation 3 price drop will affect Wii and 360s sales?

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#1 blackhorsemen
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Ipersonally think 360 sales will have a small drop , while PS3 sales will go up and Wii sales will go down by little. What do you think?
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#2 Willy105
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It's still way too expensive to do anything.
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#3 uchia123
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It won't.
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#4 blackhorsemen
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It's still way too expensive to do anything.Willy105
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#5 LegendofYaslint
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A MS rep already stated that MS plans on matching every PS3 price drop. We'll have to wait and see if they follow through with that plan.
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#6 blackhorsemen
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A MS rep already stated that MS plans on matching every PS3 price drop. We'll have to wait and see if they follow through with that plan.LegendofYaslint

As long as the 360s keep failing , Im not buying it and many people wont even with the 3 year warranty

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#7 ZinkOxide
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This still isn't official, it's that old Circuit City ad rumor that mutated.
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#8 tree-branch
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itll make wii sales go way way down.

so nintendo will have to discontinue the wii.

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#9 Yellow_Rose
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[QUOTE="LegendofYaslint"]A MS rep already stated that MS plans on matching every PS3 price drop. We'll have to wait and see if they follow through with that plan.blackhorsemen

As long as the 360s keep failing , Im not buying it and many people wont even with the 3 year warranty

Then explain why the 360 has been outselling the PS3 these past months.

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#10 GunSmith1_basic
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a ps3 price drop is a direct assault against the 360. There is no question. Of course it will hurt the wii as well, but not nearly as much, imo
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#11 Soulja_West
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It's still way too expensive to do anything.Willy105

In your opinion its way too expensive. A 100$ price drop would be just right imo.

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#12 wklzip
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I think 360 will do a price drop as well, dont know what nintendo will do, thats the way it will affect them.

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#13 Yellow_Rose
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[QUOTE="Willy105"]It's still way too expensive to do anything.Soulja_West

In your opinion its way too expensive. A 100$ price drop would be just right imo.

Then explain why the 20GB PS3 supposively didn't sell well.

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#14 joeblak
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I think 360 will do a price drop as well, dont know what nintendo will do, thats the way it will affect them.

wklzip

Nintendo doesn't have to do anything. The Wii's price is already at the sweet spot ($250), and the big titles will be coming out (Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros. Brawl)

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#15 goodlay
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itll make wii sales go way way down.

so nintendo will have to discontinue the wii.

tree-branch

But it wont make the 360 sales numbers go down? Your posts make no sense

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#16 Soulja_West
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[QUOTE="Soulja_West"]

[QUOTE="Willy105"]It's still way too expensive to do anything.Yellow_Rose

In your opinion its way too expensive. A 100$ price drop would be just right imo.

Then explain why the 20GB PS3 supposively didn't sell well.

No one wanted a stripped down PS3.

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#17 iMacBot
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More PlayStation 2 fans will be available to afford one.
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#18 Heil68
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[QUOTE="tree-branch"]

itll make wii sales go way way down.

so nintendo will have to discontinue the wii.

goodlay

But it wont make the 360 sales numbers go down? Your posts make no sense

I agree, why wouldn't other consoles be affected?
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#19 norfair_dweller
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I don't see it affecting anything that much. For one, it's still rather expensive. Second, the scrapped version of the PS3 was 500 dollars, correct?
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#20 ParadiddleFill
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100 dollar price cut doesnt do it sony, at least make it 200 and bring out some games worth playing besides Rfom
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#21 MikeE21286
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It depends if 360 also drops its price. If 360 drops its price alsothen.....well....that'd be interesting. We'll see how strong brand loyalty really is and get a chance to see which of the two gains a higher percentage of console sales as a result. 360 will still outsell PS3....but which console will the price drop have a greater affect on is the question really.
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#22 AsadMahdi59
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not much imo infact it wont affect wii sales at all if 360 drops price it may not do anything. it will only affect ps3s sales
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#23 deactivated-6456104b3ba80
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[QUOTE="Yellow_Rose"][QUOTE="Soulja_West"]

[QUOTE="Willy105"]It's still way too expensive to do anything.Soulja_West

In your opinion its way too expensive. A 100$ price drop would be just right imo.

Then explain why the 20GB PS3 supposively didn't sell well.

No one wanted a stripped down PS3.

Yeah the masses were just waiting on those little things like WiFi etc. Clearly they will all jump in head first now. This place is going to explode in August when July NPD's reveal only a small nudge in PS3 sales even after this price drop, stop setting yourself up for failure dude. 90% of people buy PS3's for either games of Bluray players, the 20GB ps3 had BOTH of the major selling features and didnt matter at all. 500 is still to damn high. But go ahead and live in delusion if you want. Will just make the NPD day that month all the more hilarious.

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#24 GundamGuy0
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Can we wait till there officaly is an price drop because right now it's just one store having a sale...

Before we speculate any father. I mean why speculate about the impact when we should still be speculating about the price drop.

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#25 mentzer
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[QUOTE="Soulja_West"]

[QUOTE="Willy105"]It's still way too expensive to do anything.Yellow_Rose

In your opinion its way too expensive. A 100$ price drop would be just right imo.

Then explain why the 20GB PS3 supposively didn't sell well.

That was due to the smaller HDD and less features.

That truly was a stupid question.

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#26 NATATO
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Well according to cows and lems, Wii isn't competing with Ps3 and 360 AT ALL. because everyone that buys a WIiOF COURSE wouldn't have normally bought any other console because they are teh casualz.
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Well according to cows and lems, Wii isn't competing with Ps3 and 360 AT ALL. because everyone that buys a WIiOF COURSE wouldn't have normally bought any other console because they are teh casualz. NATATO

I think people who say that are just generalizing (or rabidly blind). But I don't think saying many Wii sales are coming from outside the market of last gen is a very bold statement.

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#28 Tylendal
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[QUOTE="Willy105"]It's still way too expensive to do anything.Soulja_West

In your opinion its way too expensive. A 100$ price drop would be just right imo.

The majority of people are still going to agree with Willy105

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#29 NATATO
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[QUOTE="NATATO"]Well according to cows and lems, Wii isn't competing with Ps3 and 360 AT ALL. because everyone that buys a WIiOF COURSE wouldn't have normally bought any other console because they are teh casualz. MikeE21286

I think people who say that are just generalizing (or rabidly blind). But I don't think saying many Wii sales are coming from outside the market of last gen is a very bold statement.

Of course not. There ARE a lot of new people coming into the makret because the Wii. But some Lems and Cows make it sound liek the Wii success has no effect on their consoles sales what so ever.

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#30 MikeE21286
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[QUOTE="MikeE21286"]

[QUOTE="NATATO"]Well according to cows and lems, Wii isn't competing with Ps3 and 360 AT ALL. because everyone that buys a WIiOF COURSE wouldn't have normally bought any other console because they are teh casualz. NATATO

I think people who say that are just generalizing (or rabidly blind). But I don't think saying many Wii sales are coming from outside the market of last gen is a very bold statement.

Of course not. There ARE a lot of new people coming into the makret because the Wii. But some Lems and Cows make it sound liek the Wii success has no effect on their consoles sales what so ever.

I think lots of Wii owners are looking at the Wii as an awesome compliment. They're gonna own the Wii (and love it) until the other systems are affordable, and then they'll probably buy one of those as well.

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This still isn't official, it's that old Circuit City ad rumor that mutated.ZinkOxide

how about best buy now showing a price drop to?

http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/1451.html

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#32 Nugtoka
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Yea MS is setup and ready for a PS3 price drop. All MS has to do is drop the Elite down to$380 and Pro to $299 and all they have really done is an acessory swap and they can keep a SKU near $400 like they have now.
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#33 popkrnpimp
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hey its still a good deal if it does happen $500 for a ps3 and plus they got that blue ray offer if u buy a ps3 by September. 25, 07you get 5 free blue ray movies which is a good deal too:)