My opinion - Sony's big mistake = PS3 launched too cheap

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Biggerboat said:
I see what the OP is getting at but think that all that tactic would acheive is trading some profit for marketshare. The PS3 as a product is the problem and no (feesible) price point can save it. For it to dominate Sony would have simply needed to put in a bog standard gaming CPU, a beefier GPU which would have been able to show the 360 up from day 1 and a basic motherboard (the one they actually used is the single biggest culprit for the big cost of PS3). Hell I think BR would have been a welcome addition if they had cut corners on the things I've mentioned as a competitive price would have been possible from launch.

 I like your idea better than this $1000 PS3. I do think initial sales would've been high for the 1K model. The ebayers would've saw gold, but then no one would buy it from them. So there would be a surplus of used and new PS3's in stores everywhere.