S.T.A.G.E. said:
steven787 said:
Sony needs to stop hemorrhaging money.
A price cut would not solve this problem. Why sell more consoles at a loss when the people can't buy enough games to make up that loss?
They need to keep doing what they're doing, to make a profit.
Selling a quality product, with quality software at a reasonable price... $400-500 for a game system w/ WiFi, a free gaming network, online media, universal music and video, a blu-ray player, an HDD, and a rechargable wireless controller is the price they want to charge. It's the best hardware deal around. 360 just seems to have the more attractive core library - going by sales not my opinion of the games. |
Yes...amidst a worldwide recession. Yes...keep the sales up. The third parties obviously want to make games for the PS3, but Sony seeing that as a threat. Putting Blu Ray in the PS3 was a threat to their system. The quality is not the in the video game system in an objective manner, but only in the subjective. The objective is for the system to gather quality games. Forget the specs.
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No the objective is to make a profit. If you're #1 and are already selling at a profit, then you may want to do a price-cut to expand market share. If you're not #1 and you are not making a profit, then a price cut would make you LESS profitable no matter the games, the console, or the brand name.
For Sony a price cut looks like this: More loss per console * more consoles sold = more losses.
It would be different if they were turning a profit on individual consoles, then you'd have a simple supply curve and demand curve to look at.
