Aaron Greenberg, director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, says that the timing of the Xbox 360 price drops was coincidental. It had nothing to do with the PlayStation 3 price drop. Or so he says.
“Typically these types of price changes are targeted to drive sales for the holiday season,” said Greenberg to G4. “However it is difficult for our retail partners to make these types of changes in November or December so we try to work with them to make these types of adjustments before things get too hectic at retail.”
Perhaps that’s exactly what Sony was thinking. And speaking of Sony, Aaron tries to start a little sh*t. He was asked by G4 to comment on the PS3 Slim, and this is what he said:
“I guess as a gamer, I am glad I got an earlier PS3 console before they pulled a lot of the functionality like backwards compatibility out.”
Heh.
