HALOOOOOOOO on 17 April 2009
| gergroy said: @saimcheeda I agree that the ps3 needs a price cut, but I think some of your reasons are flawed. as far as brand recognition, I disagree quite a bit. In America, xbox is a much more apreciated brand than playstation. There is a reason why the xbox has such a large lead here and this is one of the big reasons. as far as competing with their last gen console, yes, that might hurt sony, but it could have also helped them if they had stuck to their guns. Having people buy their last gen console would have helped them in the long run if they had kept their backwards compatibility. However, now when customer's go to buy a new console, they basically have to start from scratch no matter which one they choose so they loose quite a bit of loyalty here, but yes, it is hurting them in their ps3 sales having the ps2 out. most consumers don't care about online starting out. They are mostly just concerned about price and games. Kowenicki posted a nice little thread about this. Should pretty much disprove the last part of the your op. http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=68610 as far as if sony's price cut could catapult them ahead of xbox, I think it's possible. It also depends on how microsoft responds. I think Sony needs to concentrate a lot more on the American and European markets too. They are losing in America bad and they need to do something about it. If microsoft stopped selling 360's right now it would take Sony over 2 years to catch up to them in America and the lead is only getting larger. |
This was actually posted in a blog, saimcheeda just pasted it for convenience.
