| steverhcp02 said: Playstation price drop 250 days Gamecube Price drop 176 days Dreamcast price drop 245 days Xbox price drop 181 days PS3 price drop 229 The only "Failed" system i see is dreamcast and it was cut 5 days earlier than the PSX one of the most successful systems, and the GameCube which made nintendo a great deal of money and had some amazing games was cut at 176.......xbox might have lost MSFT a buttload of money but it produced some stellar games, so theres some stuff to answer the underlying question of your thread, no the PS3 is not a failure based on the price drop. On a related note, Peter Moore seems to be the only constant with failed consoles of relative generation, eh?
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I think these are somewhat misleading stats. The Cube and XBox cut price so soon because they launched so much later than the PS2. Their early cuts were a forced response to the drop by Sony.
OTOH, DC launched well before the PS2. Sales practically dried up leading up to the PS2 launch (Sony's hype machine pretty much killed the DC). Once Sega did start cutting prices, they didn't stop. 4 months after the PS2 launched, the DC was already down to $99.
Meanwhile the PSX had launched over a year before the N64. It's competiton during that time was the overpriced Saturn, so it never had the need for a drop because of competition.
