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What will the price be?

$299 100 40.82%
 
$250 103 42.04%
 
$199 24 9.80%
 
$150 3 1.22%
 
$350 5 2.04%
 
Price increase, $399, the... 10 4.08%
 
Total:245
malistix1985 on 23 August 2016
SWORDF1SH said:
JRPGfan said:

It might prevent loss of sales to MS, resulting in higher sales, than if they priced it higher.

That should take abit off of that 3bn number you came up with. Selling for less profit, but selling more units, is a valid bussiness choice.

Ontop of that, said extra sales with services & higher resulting sales of PS VR, and games, could probably cover it yes.

 

malistix1985 said:

They will sell more PS4's, sell more subscriptions sell more VR headsets and prevent Microsoft from outselling them in the US and UK. Also the more they sell the more developers will support their consoles. This year is huge for Sony, if they can sell a lot of VR headsets (which requires as many consoles sold as possible) they will offer something nobody els offers plus profiting from everything sold. Game, Headset, PSplus, Console.... all profit.

I think pricing it anything over $249,- would indeed cost them money instead of making it, I also think with the VR card that not offering a better console but offering the same in a smaller box for less, deffenitely is a good decision.

So how many more PS4s do you think Sony will sell dropping it to $250 instead of $300? How many more PSVRs? How many more subs? How much more will they earn from software? Notice I'm saying more. A $300 slim will already boost sales significantly.

Sony could very well crunched the numbers and came up with $250 is the best route. Plus it's not in the same situation as the PS3 were they were giving out $100 pricecuts like it was candy just to stay relevant in the US.

At this point I would just suggest we agree we have a different opinion about this subject and let other people discuss their visions




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SWORDF1SH on 23 August 2016
malistix1985 said:
SWORDF1SH said:

 

So how many more PS4s do you think Sony will sell dropping it to $250 instead of $300? How many more PSVRs? How many more subs? How much more will they earn from software? Notice I'm saying more. A $300 slim will already boost sales significantly.

Sony could very well crunched the numbers and came up with $250 is the best route. Plus it's not in the same situation as the PS3 were they were giving out $100 pricecuts like it was candy just to stay relevant in the US.

At this point I would just suggest we agree we have a different opinion about this subject and let other people discuss their visions

Erm OK.

I was only having a discussion with you, that's what the thread is about. You have and opinion, somebody else has an opinion and you discuss your opinions. You and JRPGfan bought up some good point, I just want to discuss those areas further.



Dr.Vita on 23 August 2016

$299 would be ok.
$249 would be good.
$199 would be insane.




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Normchacho on 23 August 2016

I am of two minds on this.

1. It's $249 right from launch.

2. It's $299 at launch, is "on sale" for $249 for most of the holidays, then it officially drops to $249 in the spring.



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jason1637 on 23 August 2016

I thinks it will be $300 at launch and $250 for holidays.
Sept NPD- 380K
Oct NPD- 350K
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princevenom on 23 August 2016
Dr.Vita said:

$299 would be ok.
$249 would be good.
$199 would be insane.

please be 199 



Zkuq on 23 August 2016

It won't be $199. We'll be lucky if it's $249 instead of $299. The console sells huge amounts even without a price drop, so Sony has absolutely no need to drop the price. And after PS3, Sony seems to be more and more after profits from hardware instead of profits from just software, and I'm not sure they could even sell the console at profit at $199. If I had to guess, I'd say they would profit uncomfortably little even if it was $249. Sony is aiming to maximize profits instead of userbase, and $199 probably doesn't help there.

Bottom line: I expect it to cost $299, but $249 too is possible.



Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 23 August 2016

$299 slim for me cause they can. They r the market leader and the xbox 1 s is $299, no reason for ps4 slim to be lower. Specially since ps4 still has more power than the xbox 1 s.



                  

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Ryng on 23 August 2016

299€ launch price for the slim, 449€ for the Neo.

Expect those sales in USA
September NPD: 400,000
October NPD: 400,000
November NPD: 1,700,000
December NPD: 1,700,000

9.5 million PS4 shipped the last quarter of the year (WW)



SWORDF1SH on 23 August 2016
Ryng_Tolu said:
299€ launch price for the slim, 449€ for the Neo

That's my exact prediction to? Great minds...