A price cut for Sony's PlayStation 3 games console could be in the cards as the company looks to strengthen the platform and expand its penetration. more
drop those prices, guys! The sooner the PS3 becomes affordable, the sooner I'll buy one...in the mean time, I'm just having fun with the Wii, and really anything that I'd buy that's available for all three consoles I'd rather have on Wii anyway...the gameplay is just so much more engaging.
Quote:<hr /> Sony hasnt said when the 65-nanometer Cell will begin appearing in the PlayStation 3, but in mid-March IBM Corp., another of the companies that makes the processor, said it had begun making the more advanced chip.
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This is one area where Intel has everyone beat. Regardless of the chip technology itself, Intel has always been ahead at the manufacturing level. Just as IBM and company are just thinking about 65nm products, Intel is already testing the waters with 45nm products. Being able to stay one step ahead like that is a huge advantage for Intel on both price and performance.
Quote:<hr /> This is one area where Intel has everyone beat. Regardless of the chip technology itself, Intel has always been ahead at the manufacturing level. Just as IBM and company are just thinking about 65nm products, Intel is already testing the waters with 45nm products. Being able to stay one step ahead like that is a huge advantage for Intel on both price and performance.
Steve
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Not always Intel have been ahead, for sometime AMD was ahead in performace and IBM was ahead in new chip manufacturing processes.
Ditto. I keep eyeing High-Def Video players as well as high def video game systems. The PS3 looks great, but it's still a tad to pricey for me. If they dropped it, I may just get one.
6.Apr 19, 2007 11:31 AM
in response to: veggiedude
Re: Sony reviewing PlayStation 3 pricing
It's crazy that they would think that everyone could afford $600.00 for a game console. That's what's crazy! The price is to high for most normal working people to begin with. It doesn't play playstation 2 games either. Once they bring the price down to earth around the same price as the WII then people who work for a living maybe able to afford it. Right now though the price is rediculous no matter how much they are losing to build it. They should of thought of that before they released it.
7.Apr 19, 2007 11:32 AM
in response to: veggiedude
Re: Sony reviewing PlayStation 3 pricing
Quote:<hr /> This is crazy. They are already losing $300 on each one sold.
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It's not crazy when you take into account the other parts of their business that are dependent on it (their video games and blu-ray). It's a loss leader.
Quote:<hr /> It's crazy that they would think that everyone could afford $600.00 for a game console. That's what's crazy! The price is to high for most normal working people to begin with.
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At this stage in the product's life cycle, "normal working people" aren't the market that Sony is interested in hitting. For those people, the PlayStation 2 remains available and in strong demand. The PS3 is explicitly for early adopters and technophiles looking for the best experience possible.
In the US, several firmware updates have improved compatibility (e.g. by fixing degraded graphics in FFXII) and fixed games which previously didn't run. (Note that PS2/PSOne games are still region coded - ugh - hence the need for two compatibility lists.)
Quote:<hr /> That statement does not align with the facts.
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Sure it does. Almost all consumer electronics hardware appears first at a premium price. Once the market has adopted it and once the supply of early adopters has been exhausted, companies seek to realign pricing. It's a completely normal and standard part of product evolution, especially for video game consoles. As a practical example, when the PlayStation 2 debuted in 2000, for example, it cost $299. It now costs a fraction of that.
If you remember years ago... the PS2 and the XBOX were both $299. Sony decided to make the PS2 $149 and MS had to do it to compete... looks like they may do it again
Quote:<hr /> That statement does not align with the facts.
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Sure it does. Almost all consumer electronics hardware appears first at a premium price. Once the market has adopted it and once the supply of early adopters has been exhausted, companies seek to realign pricing.
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I think one of the points he was making was, It's not selling as well as planned, Proof: the layoffs. Companies want to get their investment back (soon) and price it accordingly. They don't offer products "for" early adopters. It's just those that buy early and at a high prices are CALLED early adopters. Looks like Sony is NOT going to follow your stipulated plan and exhast the supply of early adopters, they are cutting costs and reducing the price. They are going to plan B.
