astrosmash on 14 June 2009
| Esmoreit said: The one argument I never get is the "PS3 has more room to cut price". Why is this? Because they are the least close to the $0? Room here is dependent not just on absolutes mate. I'd say giving financial resources the PS3 has the least room to cut the price. The wii then still has not shot off it's wads too soon, seeing as the 3rd party exclusives are just now rolling of the lines and Nintendo is working hard to get SMG2, Metroid, Zelda, NSMB and Pikmin 3 on the retailshelves. As for the X360, well.. I wouldn't be surprised if MS' consoles ended up at $100 the soonest and fly away again like it did late 2008. |
One of the things that I am surprised gets over looked when some people expect PS3 to eventually follow the track of PS2 is just how much older the DVD technology was in 2000 than Bluray was in 2006. DVD was 5 years old when PS2 shipped, while Bluray players and ROM both came out the same year as PS3. This means it is going to be a very long time till those parts get uber cheap.
The same can be said of many other components when comparing PS3 to PS2; PS3 is going to have to wait a long time before those components become inexpensive enough to allow a PS2 style pricing scheme.
