New Business Model for console

[DonFerrari]

BraLoD said:
Games already drop into that price range decently fast (Nintendo being the exception). Unless that means games would fall to ~20 instead.
I preffer the way it is, and I think it's better for them too.
Having a lower enter price brings more people to their systems which brings more sales to the games there, increasing the enter price with raising the consoles price considerably would take away people from their platform.
They would be profiting a lot with each console unit sold but be completely dependant on it.
Consoles get a lot cheaper to make down the road and they end up profiting in both ways during the generation, more people into their console also means more services to be sold, aside of just games. (Like PS+)
On our consumer side, it would take too much of an investment to even get into it. At least here and Brazil you know the prices as already quite prohibitive, increasing that a lot means people stay longer on older gen, which also means they will be buying games cheaper by default too, not needing them to release for cheaper.

Games would probably drop slower/less and second hand would be less interesting so pubs could benefit from it.

And well many games drop below 20 within 2 years (not even counting sport games).

I do understand that the higher tag on the console can make people frown and perhaps have lower sales from HW. But platform holder would dimish risk of loss since they are taking the profit at the sale of the HW. It is a different idea that I wanted to see people opinion, and seems like it is mostly against.

Well I know for Brazil it would totally sucks, but on the strategy of consoles Brazil isn't much regarded... well after Bolsonaro aproves the cut in taxes for electronics maybe this reality will change and we may buy cheap PS5 *.*

BraLoD said:

0D0 said:

Consoles should be even cheaper in my opinion, particularly now that console makers make money with subscriptions. The entry price for console gaming should as minimal as possible to bring as many people as possible to the party earlier.

And that's what they mostly try to do.

Sony usually take loses to bring PS as cheap as they possibly can.

Even those $600 PS3 were making they lose money being sold at that price.

Hey you can't agree with him after our bet over the 399 vs 499.