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PS3 to Sell at Over $800 in UK
joe 155 writes "The Register is reporting that '
the PS3 will cost £425 in the UK - over $800'. SCE UK Managing Director Rat Maguire said: 'I don't think it's an expensive machine - I think actually, it's probably a cheap machine. If you think a Blu-Ray player by itself might be £600-700, and we're coming in at just £425, it's a bargain.' Can a console really be viable at this price?"
Sorry clown, Sony doesn't need the indignant advice of some random idiot like you.
The PS3 will sell in the 120-150 million worldwide range. We wouldn't be putting our, and other console developer's, mainline exclusive IPs once again on Sony's platform if it wasn't. The PS3 is, incredible as it sounds, even in a stronger position than the PS2 was at this time six years ago.
Nintendo only stands a chance in Japan against the PS3. Nintendo did have a chance in the US to make N64 level numbers until their 'clever' marketing move on the naming sabotaged all that.
Microsoft has basically flunked out of the race and are no longer relevant to any next gen console discussions. Weak hardware, defective manufacturing process, lack of BC, nightmare to program, and so on. The worst selling console in over a decade. At least Microsoft has pc/Vista gaming to fall back on.
1080p sets are plummeting in price. A cheap way to play BluRay/highdef content is about to explode once a good selection of sets hits the 700-1000 dollar range soon. And the PS3 is going to be selling like mad with all of those new 1080p sets.
Speaking of typos, I'm pretty certain the the unit of currency in the UK is not the dollar.
Anyway.. $800.. that's about £50 these days, isn't it?
What is it about console stories that gives every random idiot the greenlight to run their mouths off? It's like console stories are turned into contests of who can pack the most idiotic drivel into to one posts like yours...
"The way consoles are sold is quite a clever exercise in capturing the consumer surplus; that is, segmenting your market according to their willingness to pay. You launch at a price that is very high to start with and you capture the relatively small segment of the market that thinks your product is really worth that much. You then slowly lower your price so you hoover up more and more of the people who are willing to part with their cash when the price is more reasonable. Eventually, as you near the end of production, you cut your prices further to get it off the shelves and get the people who want something for nothing."
Gee Einstein, you are really on to something there. You should come up with a name for what you described, say, Supply and Demand?
" It is not the first to market with the new generation of console. This is crucial,"
You are essentially letting anyone who works in the console market with that idiotic claim that you have absolutely nothing of value to add to any discussion.
"Another factor here is BluRay. I'd estimate that 80% of Playstation 2s are hooked up to a small TV in some teenageers bedroom. They're not going to go out and buy a High-Definition set for their Playstation 3. They will get no benefit from the enhanced resolution of BluRay and therefore see no reason to buy it."
Bzzzt!!! Forget your silly 80% figure you pulled from your ass. 1080p set prices are in a freefall. Sony knows this and have known this for a long time now. The PS3 supports 1080p output for the very reason that 1080p sets will be hitting mainstream prices just at the time the PS3 hits the market.
"For this reason, I expect the Playstation to under perform by a long way"
Dream on dimwit. Every single system selling exclusive IP that led 105 million console consumers to go out and buy PS2s is once again exclusive on the PS3. Along with the MASSIVE power advantage the PS3 has over the Wii and 360, betting on Sony selling any less than they did this gen is silly.
Worldwide sales figures will look something like this over the next five years:
PS3: 120-150 million
Wii: 20-35 million
360: 12-18 million
"how the XBox 360 would be/is/was a failure"
Uh...
How exactly is the Xbox 360 NOT a failure?
The latest worldwide sales numbers are 1.7 million after six months. Those numbers are worse than the first Xbox and Dreamcast. Much worse. Has there ever been a console that sold that poorly?
They have given up on backwards compatibility.
Manufacturing defects are still rampant with the consensus putting the failure rate at 15-20 percent with huge numbers of people on their third, fourth, and fifth 360 units.
And the most troubling is reports from 360 developers complaining about the graphics system which seems like it was never designed to handle 720p but instead 480p.
Regardless of how well the PS3 will sell start November, it is hard to see the Xbox 360 as anything but one of the biggest console failures ever. I don't know anyone who has a PS2 who isn't planning on getting a PS3. None of the people I know who have Xboxes are planning on getting a 360, they are all planning on getting a Wii or PS3.
Shuduv joined the EU you FREAKS!
Crawl back to teamxbox faggot, you're not fooling anyone with yet another batch of bogus Xbox sales numbers...
105 thousand is the latest confirmed sales in Japan
1.1 million is the latest confirmed sales number in the US
600 thousand is the latest confirmed sales number in Europe.
But don't cry little fanboy I hear April is the month where the 360 'really start to take off' - hell you might even be able to break 200k in the US or even sell as many as Sony's six year old PS2 is currently...
360 backwards compatibility....
Bwhahahahaha!!!!
360 hardware defects...
Bwhahahahaha!!!!