Why reports of the decline of the PS3 have been grossly exaggerated.

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Bitmap Frogs said:

whatever said:
As a software developer, I've seen how bad it is when M$ drives competitors out of a market. Borland used to sell compilers for $100 or less, then M$ came in and under cut them, effectively killing Borland. Once that happened, Visual Studio suddenly cost more than $1000 bucks. Same happened with the Word Processer as they under cut Word Perfect (which was a FAR superior product).

 

 

 

 Rubbish Word Perfect was garbage compared to Word.  WordPerfect for Windows was a bad product until the 2nd WordPerfect for Windows 95 (Wordperfect 6).  WordPerfect didnt take Windows seriously and for the longest time it was just WordPerfect for DOS inside a frame with buttons to insert command codes.  Borland, WordPerfect and Lotus all shared the same fate because they didnt take Windows seriously and lost the desktop database market (Borland Dbase 32 bit didnt release until after Windows 95 released), word processor, and spreadsheet markets.  As for developer tools Borland lost out because of Visual Basic not Visual C++.

 

As for the PS3 you should be looking at revenue look at loss.  Cutting price $50 and say that increases sales by 1,000,000 before the 2nd cut next holiday season.  So do you take a loss of 500,000,000 ($50 loss per console). Then they sell 11,000,000 instead of 10,000,000 and the loss becomes $1,100,000,000.