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Mr Puggsly on 25 March 2016
Ruler said:
Mr Puggsly said:

Agreed.

People want Xbox to go away for some reason but that's the only thing encouraging Sony to be competitive and why PS4 was $299 during the holiday. Frankly, the last thing you want is your favorite console to be less competitive and therefore we need competition.

I dissagree, Sony can and will compete more with PC in the future. The recent rumors and the VR price are an idicator, for example they could have sold the PSVR at 800$ and say hey we are the only console manufacture having VR so deal with it. But they didnt

PC isnt Sony's direct competitor right now though, its Xbox. That's the console taking away profits from Sony and therefore encourages them to be more competitive. You cant disagree... Its reality.

Sony has always pushed gimmicks incase it takes off. 3D TVs, motion controls, etc. Sony isnt taking a risk with VR, they are putting their toe in just in case.



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AsGryffynn on 25 March 2016
d21lewis said:

Not trying to turn this into Sony vs M$ so I'll just say what I always say: when you're winning, you don't have to try as hard.

This gen, the PS4 is a runaway success. Things like free online or a ton of free top tier games are not what Sony has to do, these days. They don't have to win people over. That's why I always felt competition with other consoles is good. It made everyone try harder. Last gen, we all won.

I feel the same... The Xbox pulling over the Playstation is actually a good thing since the lead is smaller so Xbox can't rest like Sony is doing now... 



d21lewis on 25 March 2016
Ganoncrotch said:
Bandorr said:

I got it / get it for games I do not have. Triple a games several years old? I either have them - or don't want them. Hey look at this month - I have all of those games. If I had GWG - this month would be a 100% wash.

Need For Speed: Rivals is almost three years old. If you wanted it - why didn't you get it? Do you really want an almost three year game simply because it is triple A?

NFS rivals was part of the sale just after new years too, think it was 8.99 for the standard version of it, just saying if you wanted cheap old AAA titles it's possible to net them from sales for the same price as a month of PSN+

As for the "free games are a bonus, most people pay for online" I pretty much only have my psn sub for the free games, twice since I've bought the system have I gone online to play, where I get value from these services is the free handful of games each month. I'm sure there are people who get more from each thing the services offer (there is also the weekly deals with gold or psn+ discounts on the stores which allow you to net games for less to offset the price of the service as well) I'm just saying blanket statements of "people don't pay for a service for X portion of it" aren't true, if they were then the companies wouldn't bother with that portion of the service at all.

You have to admit, though-- the numbers jumped drastically when Sony charged for online compared to when they just charged for free games.



d21lewis on 25 March 2016
Ruler said:
Mr Puggsly said:

Agreed.

People want Xbox to go away for some reason but that's the only thing encouraging Sony to be competitive and why PS4 was $299 during the holiday. Frankly, the last thing you want is your favorite console to be less competitive and therefore we need competition.

I dissagree, Sony can and will compete more with PC in the future. The recent rumors and the VR price are an idicator, for example they could have sold the PSVR at 800$ and say hey we are the only console manufacture having VR so deal with it. But they didnt

 

anyways great deal with SO

Was Sony competing with PC or where they looking for a "mass market" price?

How much is PSVR (which I'm buying on day one) after you add in Move controllers and a PS Eye?  And, according to early reviewers, it's still a far inferior experience to the other options.  What I'm saying is they didn't charge $800 because they don't provide an $800 experience and, even then, they aren't cheap.

Imagine if, for example, Xbox One and NX offered a VR option. Do you think PSVR's price would make them think twice about how much they'd charge? Do you think Sony would lower their price to stay competitive? Would somebody even consider selling hardware at a loss?

 

Competition is good.