| Metallicube said: See, this is why I didn't really want the PS3 to do well. It possibly gives Sony carte blanche to release a console at an outragous price like $600. I'm sorry but if you try to bring out a gaming console for $600, you lose, period. I mean it's good that they finally wisened up and dropped it to a more reasonable $300, but the fact is that it still started much higher than it should have. |
considering the cost of manufacturing what do you think would have been a better cost of sell the ps3.
the ps3 costing 600 at launch wasn't Sony being evil money hungry arrogant bastards, it was the most reasonable choice they could see that would allow them to support the console in time for INEVITABLE price cuts that would come later down the line.
Fact: if the ps3 didn't cost so much to make, it would have cost so much at launch, which is exactly why the ps4 won't be 600 dollars, because of the investment on the ps3 hardware, the ps4 will be much cheaper to produce. thus costing less at launch while retaining it's massively powerful nature, and easier to develop for is just icing on the cake.
