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Joystiq [PlayStation]: Microsoft expects PS3 price cut soon, while Reeves reiterates profit mantra
Joystiq [Xbox]: MS predicts a Playstation 3 price cut 'soon'
PR News:: Sony PS3 price cut coming says Xbox 360 product manager
Engadget: Microsoft exec predicts Sony will be forced to cut PS3 prices
Silicon Alley Insider: Microsoft Exec: We're Shocked Sony Hasn't Cut PS3 Prices Yet (SNE)
Microsoft expects PS3 price cut soon, while Reeves reiterates profit mantra
Joystiq [PlayStation] —
... This time, it's not an analyst that's predicting a PS3 price drop. It's the competition. Microsoft's outspoken Aaron Greenberg has been celebrating the tremendous success of Xbox 360, which currently leads PS3 by more than 8 million units worldwide. Obviously, ...
MS predicts a Playstation 3 price cut 'soon'
Joystiq [Xbox] —
... With a 28 million Xbox 360 base and keeping a sales lead over the Playstation 3, Microsoft knows that the worldwide console price cuts they enacted in 2008 have been a key component to their strategy. Something that Sony has yet to do with PS3, which ...
Sony PS3 price cut coming says Xbox 360 product manager
PR News: —
... months. He said “We’re frankly surprised it’s taken this long.” Let us hope that he is right, Sony need to do something if they hope to have strong sales in this current credit crisis.
Wii sales now stand at 45 million units, and it was launched a year after the Xbox 360. Microsoft knows that they have no way of competing with the Nintendo Wii, so their main rival is the Sony PS3. Sony need this price cut if they wish to stay competitive with the Xbox 360.
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Microsoft exec predicts Sony will be forced to cut PS3 prices
Engadget —
After a couple weeks in which the 360 posted better sales numbers than the PS3 and it was revealed that Sony inadvertently funded Microsoft's next-gen development efforts, you'd think Microsoft execs would be getting a little cocky, but it sounds instead like they're expecting a renewed offensive from Sony based on price. That's direct from the 360's director of product management Aaron Greenberg, who told Edge that MS "absolutely expects" a PS3 price cut in the next few months, and that the team is "frankly surprised it's taken this long." Of course, we've ...
Microsoft Exec: We're Shocked Sony Hasn't Cut PS3 Prices Yet (SNE)
Silicon Alley Insider —
Microsoft's Xbox 360 continues to hammer Sony's PS3 across the globe because Sony (SNE) refuses to lower the PS3's price below $400.
Even Microsoft (MSFT) executives say they're surprised Sony hasn't cut the PS3's price already.
Microsoft director of product management for Xbox 360 Aaron Greenberg told Edge:
"We absolutely expect the PS3 price drop to happen in the next couple of months. We're frankly surprised it's taken this long....
I would expect they'd have to move on price, sooner than later, for sure."
The problem for Sony ...
Microsoft expects PS3 price drop 'in the next couple of months'
Joystiq —
... Now that the PS3 costs less to make, shouldn't Sony be passing on its savings to you? That's what Xbox 360 product manager, Aaron Greenberg, expects will happen via a price cut before summer.
Speaking to Edge Online, Greenberg said that, ...
Microsoft Dates PlayStation 3 Price Drop For Springtime [Aaron Greenberg]
Kotaku —
... Greenberg said, following recent Microsoft sales boasting. "We're frankly surprised it's taken this long. I would expect they'd have to move on price, sooner than later, for sure." Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president David Reeves disagrees. He says not to expect a price cut this Spring , sticking to the "value added" thing. With PlayStation 3s reportedly getting cheaper to make , we'd expect it sooner rather than later " no plans " notwithstanding. MS: 360 Life-to-Date Sales Hit 28m [Edge Online]
Microsoft: Forget ZunePhone, we're aiming for Zune (on) TVs
Macworld —
... that "Zune the service needs to transcend Zune the device." Neither executive elaborated. Matt Rosoff, an analyst with the independent firm, Directions on Microsoft, thinks that Microsoft will bring the Zune Marketplace to its XBox Live service. The latter already delivers online games and streaming Netflix movies to the 28 million owners worldwide of XBox 360 consoles . This would be "a no-brainer that they've been talking about forever," he said. Meanwhile, Michelle Abraham, an analyst with In-Stat, thinks that Microsoft will integrate the Zune service into ...
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