Cnet: How Sony is Killing the PS3

[freedquaker]

I love xbox 360 more than ps3 but even I can clearly see that the guy who wrote this article is a moron! He is just trying to create some kinda lobby to pressure Sony for price decrease, which cannot be a solution to Sony.

PS3 price is set at $400 and it has to stay like that for about 1 year or so till Sony is able to decrease the production costs further. I believe the price will drop to $300 within 1 year or so, which is the right price for the console.

They can't price it at $300 now though, because they will lose even more money on each console and they will sell even more consoles, which is untolerable. They can't possibly recuperate this kind of loss. Being in the business is not about market share in essence, its about profitability.

I have no doubt that PS3 will eventually pass Xbox 360 but it may take longer than 1 year, probably somewhere in 2010. However if PS3 hits 300 mark, it will gain a lot of ground and this process will be a lot quicker.

Actually PS3 is a great disappointment and it shouldnt have a Blu-ray Drive in the first place, then it would be priced like $400 in the beginning and dropping its price to $300 or after 1 year or so. Then it would be much more profitable with a much higher market share. It wouldnt also lose many of its exclusives due to reverse snowball effect.

However, PS3 is still going to be a success. Because PS3 is slowly gaining ground. The sales are in an increasing trend without price cut, there are more games produced, there are better functionalities, the graphics are coming on par with 360 (used to be worse) and even better on some 1st party games, and it has several exclusive (and for many people) must-buy games like all Naughty Dog and Insomniac games. I'll definitely buy PS3, but when it hits $300 and there are more varity of games.

thanks for reading :)