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Sony Looks to 'Refine' PS3 Price
Via GameDaily a Financial Times interview with with Sir Howard Stringer, Sony's CEO, gives fans the first hope that price cuts may be coming soon. Lauding the Wii's performance in last month's NPD numbers, Stringer says that Sony is looking to 'refine' the PS3's pricepoint. "'Nintendo Wii has been a successful enterprise, and a very good business model, compared with ours . . . because it's cheaper,' Mr Stringer said in a video interview. 'That [price cuts] is what we are studying at the moment. That's what we are trying to refine.' Sir Howard said he expected 'energy [in PS3 sales] by Christmas, and then you will begin to see break-out games'. Sony is launching a virtual-world game called Home this year, and up to 30 other games."
Well, it isn't difficult to sell an old useless console with profit, because that's what the wii is, old technology, the control is not even that great or special, for god sake, you can't even play a dvd on the bugger even though it has a dvdplayer inside... The PS3 isn't a staggering high price (maybe you don't have enough money to buy it, but that doesn't mean the price is too high), with the PS3 you get all the stuff the wii can do (like emulating old games), but you also get a HD multimediacentre, and 'NextGen' games.. But then again, you propably can't look any further than looking at it as a gameconsole, which it ofcourse also is, but it's much more... A HD capable xbox360 with the same ammount of Harddrivespace costs just as much as the PS3 (even the PS3 is a but cheaper, since it does also have Wifi built in), so in the end the PS3 isn't that pricey at all...
That's funny, but just stupid. The PS3 is and always has been worth well more than its price in the store for a lot of reasons that nobody should have to justify anymore.
... not $350, which would put it in price competition with the PS2.
That said, people aren't always willing to pay what something is worth, so discounting it to encourage sales is still a good idea. However, discounting would be like $50-$75
In case you forgot, the PS2 is selling for around $100 brand new, with a ton of games and more coming too. Sony rakes in good profits from PS2 sales, so they're quite happy to have cheap people buy the PS2 and people willing to fork out some cash to buy the PS3. Psychologically though, a small price cut will encourage sales because people will be getting a 'better deal'.
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No you sir are the one that doesnt really understand it.
$600 is far too expensive for a game console. No one gives a shit about it being a multi-media center, linux box, blu-ray player. It is a games console. Until it comes down to below $400 the PS3 is an overpriced games console with one tenth of the quality games available for it that the other consoles have. Why TF would anyone buy something like that and pay premium dollars for the opportunity?
I don't give a wet hamster fart if the Wii was LITERALLY two Gamecubes duct-taped together like the wannabe web-comedians claim.
You will in a couple of years.
Rob
Seriously, every Wii game thinks it has to reinvent the control scheme even when it is gratuitous and tacked on. Gestures may work for simple actions that have a 1:1 mapping to real life. Gestures suck rocks for anything for anything more complex.
And yes the Wii is last gen. Having a gimmicky controller does not change that fact.