HappySqurriel on 13 April 2007
| NorthStar said: The Christmas Holiday alot of systems will sell ...but there has got to be more than that to this heavy ramp up...If the supply of Blu-Ray diodes are in great supply now and the Blu-Ray diode is what was the reason the PS3 price was so high....I am guessing there is going to be a substantial price cut to the PS3.If soon the Bluray machine is droping $500 and still going to be profitable then Sony must be getting them for real cheap.This would explain the Ramp up in PS3 production.I would be real suprised if there was not a drop in the PS3 this year and probly soon.If not the Ramp in production wouldn't make much sense otherwise.You can go to any store and see alot of 360's and in some places 4-5 PS3's most places at least 1-3.When you see 5 PS3 there it just does't look good.Why would a retailer buy that many PS3s if therec just not selling that fast?right now I would say PS3 sales are ok to good the 360s are ok too but i wouldn't think either one is in the need to ramp production..or in 360s case bring out a new "version". Maybe it could be a Ramp in Productio because games will finally be dropping that could move systems,but i think the biggest hurdle is the Price and Sony has to know that by now |
I'm not too sure there has to be too much of a reason ...
Even if the PS3 is selling poorly they will likely sell 5 Million units worldwide between March 31st 2007 and March 31st 2008; if it performed much below that I would not anticipate the console to live much longer. 10 Million units is a moderately good performance for a console in a 12 month period (essentially it is 666,666 consoles worldwide per month + strong holiday performance). Now, if Sony attempts to ship 10 Million consoles and doesn't sell that many units the only risk they have is to drastically reduce production until surplus units are sold so I wouldn't be (too) surpised to hear that was what their target is.
