Procrastinato on 31 July 2009
| JEDE3 said: Proc and TheThunder - But for such an expensive console a small % is actually a lot of money. This is why percents mean shit. The smaller the number the bigger the percent. the bigger the number the smaller percent yet it's bigger. |
For console hardware, we're talking like 2%, not 5%.
That's $8 on a PS3, only. The retailers want to sell consoles as badly as the manufacturer does, and for the same reasons. Marking them up more would be foolhardy for both parties, when software/accessories is where the money is at. Keeping the price as low as possible on the former, yields the most sales for the latter.
