nightsurge on 31 December 2008
| Deviation59 said: The reason Sony keeps making the hard drive size of the PS3 larger isn't necessarily to justify keeping the price where it's at. Hard drives have a price floor, regardless of their size. If Sony wanted to sell the 40gb again for some reason, they'd still be buying 80gb drives and they'd be cutting them down to 40gb with the firmware. That's what happened with the original Xbox, actually. The hard drives were not the same size when the system hit EOL but Microsoft artificially limited their size to make them match up with previous models. This is just another way of saying that people need to stop bringing up the idea of cutting the hard drive size to save money. It doesn't work. |
Unfortunately, you do not know what the price floor on their HDD's are, do you? Nor if they could still buy 40GB hard drives or not. Regardless, it wouldn't save them much. If they didn't have so many games with required installs, they could just strip the hard drive completely to drop the price, but since adding the hard drive is not mainstream knowledge to the average Joe consumer, that would never work either...
Again I say, Sony is screwed.
