johnsobas said:
Infinity said:
johnsobas said:
coasterlove said:
They will drop the price in the first three months of 2009. And again before Christmas if sales don't pick up dramatically. It's at the point where Sony can't even worry about losing money on sales of the PS3 but time to start be concerned about the brand name of Playstation. They can't afford to be so far behind in sales because it hurts their brand.
It's like Nintendo, they were almost sort of a joke as far as consoles go for a while. They're still going to have a hard time trying to be considered anything but a family console. A company has to try to protect their image. Sony has lost a lot of the image they earned through PS1 and PS2. So they will do whatever they need to gain their image back. Lets face it, the first two Playstation systems each sold well over 100 million and at the rate the PS3 is headed, it wouldn't sell 50 million lifetime.
The only way Sony can change that is through price drops. We've seen some big name games come out for the PS3 and all it does is cause a spike for a couple weeks and sales fall back down. Sony needs to drop the price and do it as soon as possible. |
Yea except that Nintendo never sold a console at a loss as far as we know. At least they have never had any reported a loss before. If they want to be like nintendo they would increase the amount of 1st party games and think about a way they can tackle next gen. If anything Nintendo has shown us is that you can jump from last to first very quickly. Do you really think it would have helped Nintendo to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on games, marketing, and price drops for the gamecube and n64? No, they were 100x better off just making a good game plan for the wii, carrying it out, and swimming in the billions of dollars they are making.
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Nintendo has never been last place saleswise. There have been superior consoles to Nintendo's offering in every generation Nintendo has had a home console in, except the NES, that have sold less.
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what are you talking about? Ever heard of the gamecube?
I don't know what you mean by "superior consoles," if you mean power then SNES and N64 were not inferior.
All of that is beside the point, Nintendo has shown us that you can go from a bad 3rd place to dominating in 1 generation. It's much easier to do that then it is waste all your money trying to make a 3rd place system slightly more successful.
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What are YOU talking about? Ever heard of the Dreamcast? Best console, worst selling. The Gamecube was second to last.
