Ashes1396 said:
Apart from the condescending tone, I don't have a clue what you tried to imply there as regards to the specific point you appeared to be addressing.
You originally took issue with my point about BluRay, which is like the least subjective thing I've said in this entire thread: the dollar value for integrated BluRay playing goes down with every passing day as standalone player get cheaper, to the eventual point where integrated BRD playing will be essentially without monetary value (in the same way that lots of people have more devices than they will ever need that play DVDs now.)
What the information we have access to tells us is that when the PS3 and 360 cross paths in the sales rankings, it's because one of them has done something to shore up their value proposition against the other. Over the course of this year, Microsoft added significantly to their value proposition at both $199 and $299, while Sony basically sat in place (the mirror image of last year, when Sony improved their value significantly and Microsoft sat around.) Without specific factors of great significance (new killer apps, essentially) or external trends (like BluRay changing value in the broader market) that perception isn't going to change itself and the PS3 is not going to start looking like a more appealing value at the same price, with the same features. (The "price advantage" of Move is certainly irrelevant, since for new customers the only prices they're looking at are the $299 Kinect bundle and $399 Move bundle.)
The tl;dr version of this is that unlike before (when the two systems were in striking distance of one another) this move pretty effectively cements that Sony
needs to improve the customer-perceived value of their system if they don't want to fall into the sales doldrums again, and since their system is already heavy on secondary "value" that doesn't seem to be working for them at their current price point, that pretty much means cutting the price.
