Stromprophet on 17 March 2007
Quartz said:
Point taken. But like anything else, a business likes to make money. Dropping the price of the PS3 while it's selling 'reasonably' in Sony eyes is not really needed. Unless of course for some reason the System takes a major dive in sales - then a price drop would be a last resort.
The way the market is lolly gagging right now I'm surprised the price is still up. I looked at my 401k and IRA and shook my head the last few weeks here.
My whole thing is I recognize IMO the number was bad. 127k is not good. I suppose if they only look at competing against Microsoft as winning they could reason that the numbers aren't so bad. After all worldwide they will likely start outselling Microsoft after the European launch on a monthly basis.
If they slip below 100k a month I don't see any other way.
For example Dreamcast was the last system to fail, or stop being made. From February 2000 - September 200 they averaged around 50k-60k sales a month in a non competitive environment. Regardless, those sales weren't good enough to keep them in the game.
