Console Price Cuts And The Holiday Season

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday September 30, 2003 @03:48PM from the negative-money-for-console-love dept.

Thanks to CNN Money for their article discussing the state of the console market heading into the Xmas season. The author discusses the lack of major price-cuts for the PS2 and Xbox, suggesting: "Sony feels it can make more money this holiday season from its existing customer base", and speculating: "It's more and more likely that the reason we haven't seen price cuts from Sony and Microsoft is their next generation machines won't hit stores until 2006." If this is the case, it's suggested that "...the life cycle of this [hardware] generation will be the longest of any in the industry's short history", perhaps surprising considering rapidly advancing technology.

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Remember the days? by M3wThr33 · 2003-09-30 20:33 · Score: 0, Troll

The Intellivision got an upgrade to add VOICE!
The NES had many MBC upgrades, one of which quadrupled the resolution!

You got the SNES/Genesis because the sprites looked so much better, the controller had more buttons and the music was tons better.

With the PSX/Saturn came CDs and 3D. Wow!

With the DC/PS2/Etc. came... BETTER 3D and uh... DVD? MS added a harddrive. . .

Aside from polishing off little things with consoles, there's no real limits they can't reach if they just don't use too many polygons.

But wherever Mario is, I'll go.