drago on 28 March 2007
staticneuron said:
If you consider the 360 a decent price yet say that the PS3 is expensive let us compare as ratios. If a 360 is akin to a car lets assign it a reasonable value... let us say 15,000. Then the PS3 would be 22,500 ratio wise. Considering I just purchased a car between those two price points I am sure that if deemed worth it the more expensive car would have not been a strain.
True enough. The only problem is the value equation. The perceived value for wifi,online play, Blue-ray, a hard disk, High Def visuals and so on, varies depending on want someone wants, expects or can afford. Giving gamers a choice if they want none, only some or all of them, would be benefit both sides, I think.
You dont want any of those, you just want to play the new PS3 games? Fine, just get the 250$ one. Or you want all of them? Then the 800$ Premium is for you. Or you want just High Def and upgrade the rest later? Also fine, get the 400$ one and buy everything else later as you see fit. All of a sudden Sony breaks even on Premium and loses less on the rest. (Note: I am not saying, that this would be easy to pull off, but if done right, it could have helped a lot.)
To me that seems like an inherent problem with the current model for making consoles. Expensive Ferraris sure dont sell in big numbers, but at least they turn you a big profit, while expensive consoles only increase your possible risk and losses. Maybe nextgen we will see some changes due to that, who knows.
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