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Playstation 3 = $500, PSP = $249?
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StrikerObi
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Analysts know shit.
StrikerObi
Member
HalfPastNoon said:
These guys have never been right about console prices. Do they seriously think Sony will sell the PS3 at $500? I'm sure that's maybe what they should be selling at to break even, or mayve even a fair amount under that price. But Sony knows as well as everybody else they seriously can't even consider selling the PS3 for more than $400 (more like $350 IMO).
Also, IBHAT is funny because I replaced "HAT" with a hat.
Mike Works
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There's nothing to indicate that the introduction of the PSX will lead Sony to include TiVo-style functionality in the PS3. It's all speculation on the part of the analysts. Outside of corporate financial matters, most analysts seem out of their depth when it comes to making predictions about the videogame industry, so you really have to take statements like this with a pound or two of salt.
I do think that marketing an optional hard drive peripheral/video capture device as a 'TiVo kit' would be a brilliant move on Sony's part. It'd make the extra expense of a hard drive add-on more palatable to consumers, since you'd get non-gaming functionality out of it as well. And since it would cost less than a standalone TiVo, it'd be appealing to people who'd already bought the system. It'll be interesting to see if Sony goes anywhere with that.
I do think that marketing an optional hard drive peripheral/video capture device as a 'TiVo kit' would be a brilliant move on Sony's part. It'd make the extra expense of a hard drive add-on more palatable to consumers, since you'd get non-gaming functionality out of it as well. And since it would cost less than a standalone TiVo, it'd be appealing to people who'd already bought the system. It'll be interesting to see if Sony goes anywhere with that.
Newsflash! Kutarugi has already said repeatedly that Sony would never launch a primary system exceeding $300. They are smart enough to realize that price alienation could easily lead to market suicide. A secondary system with an enhanced feature set, such as the current PSX, is more than feasible & has been hinted on.
boutrosinit
Street Fighter IV World Champion
Serafitia said:
*joins the queue*
Btw, there's two models of PS3 planned apparently - one PSX-style model with a million and one tech-whore features and another that's a bit more bare bones. The bare bones one is probably more likely to hit for $300 since it's doubtful it'll have a Blu-Ray Burner on it. Of course, I'm speculating.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Nicco said:
Yes, Sony Computer Entertainment != Sony Electronics.
PlayStation 3 != PSX2.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
boutrosinit said:
Blu-Ray Re-Writeable/Burner on PSX2/Home Server and Blu-Ray ROM on PlayStation 3: users expect a new format with the new console and Sony needs a Trojan horse (I know the expression is over-used, but it gets the meaning across
) for the Blu-Ray technology.
Chittagong
Gold Member
PS2 launced in Scandinavia in Nov 2000 at 500 eur without games or memory card included in the price, and the queue went all around the block of the biggest department store in Helsinki. Across the street there was around a hundred hippies and communists having an annual "Do Not Buy Anything Day" demonstration, while people walked with blue PS2 plastic bags and laughed at them.
SolidSnakex
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Nicco said:
The fact is the PSX wasn't one of Sony's "gaming" systems as they've stated a million times. It was for tech people. The gaming Playstations won't be priced like that because as they said with the PSX, there's different markets for the people that want the gaming systems and the tech ones. And as you were pointing out, the PSX was 700 and it also didn't sell which tells Sony that they better not pull anything like that with a real system or else they're going to mess up.
Also these analysts when the PS2 was getting ready to launch were reporting the PS2 was going to be a huge flop for Sony because they were a 1 hit wonder. I don't know what facts they were working off, but it's not the ones that's put the PS2 on track to being the best selling console ever.
So if you want to talk about logic, that simply tells them to not even think of pricing the PS3 at anything above 400 at most in Japan.
Doom_Bringer
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Actually it might make alot sense to do that for first year. There will not be enough ps3 to go around anyway. Why not get most $$ out of situation and let must own now early adopter get screwed alittle, they are use to it anyway with HDTV and all there gadgets be alot better and cheaper months afterwards. We all ready know there was people paying up $1000 for ps2 on ebay back during launch time.
See, here is the logic that needs to die. This whole "they're not that dumb" complex. Even with Sony launching the PSX for $700 and launching a portable console for (likely) over $200. And let's not forget all the other points I mentioned already--in particular the 1.8 billion--with a 'b'--dollars being invested in the Cell.kevm3 said:
I'm not saying that the PS3 will be $500. But I'm not denying it will be because I'm looking at the writing on the wall. It is amazing how blind fanboyancy makes people--at least come up with a more logical defense that "Sony's not that stupid." And if you aren't even going to entertain the idea, then you're no better than the people who are so quick to believe it.
It is an analyst. This is a forum. Why not debate on the facts rather than call people idiots and mudsling. That's it.
SolidSnakex
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Nicco said:
Sony's not aiming for the typical handheld market with the PSP, they're trying to build their own market with it. With the PS3 they have their market and they know what price their market accepts for buying their hardware.