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hardyhar on 27 August 2009
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Seihyouken said:
hardyhar said:
Slimebeast said:
Seece said:
It's not meant to boost sales, just keep them sustained. If they can do what they did last holiday season then they're doing great.

I mean, in four years X360 only has dropped $100 (from $299 to $199 and $399 to $299), while PS3 in only three years has dropped $300 - from $599 to $299.

The Elite was $480 at launch in the US, so that's a drop of $180.

 

Sony's losses since the PS3 was launched: -

2007 - $2,483,437,762

2008 - $1,330,793,265

2009 - $624,981,361

And yeah, you can say "but MS has made a loss too", but they don't have 2 other profitable consoles on sale at the same time. The PS3 has cost them billions and the Slim is going to lose them even more.

 

And Microsoft isn't funding one of the largest collections of first and second party development studios in the industry. Nor have they taken it upon themselves to avoid passing the costs of their online network onto the consumer and paid for it in full out of their own pocket.

It's easy to spin things one way or the other, but none of this has anything to do with how the 360 will sell this holiday.

Microsoft's online network is far more advanced than Sony's. I'll gladly pay 50p a week for Live, but until PSN gets cross-game chat, a proper invite/join system and so on, I wouldn't pay a penny for it. Also, I download a lot of DLC and the content is regularly cheaper on Live (and available earlier most of the time). The map packs for COD:WAW are £7.99 each on PSN for example, but they're £6.80 on Live and even cheaper as I use pre-paid cards. The difference becomes negligable over a year. There's also demos of every game. I was interested in that Smash Cars game that's just arrived on PSN today, but it's £12 and once again there is no fucking demo, probably because Sony charge developers for bandwidth.

How much do Sony make from the PS2, PSP and associated games? They have revenue from that to prop them up, yet they're still losing billions because of the PS3. MS don't have other games machines on the market apart from the Xbox 360. MS are also paying for exclusive games and DLC (something which seems to really annoy the PS3 fanboys, even though Sony did exactly the same thing last generation). Sony may well be funding these "large collections" of game studios, but where are the games? The same PS3 games that the fanboys were waffling on about in 2008 still haven't come out. The 360 gets a few good exclusive games every year. So does the PS3, but what tends to happen is the PS3 crowd have this long list of exclusives, except they're staggered over about 3 or 4 years. I see it every year, "the 360 has nothing, while the PS3 has this, that, and this", except "that and this" end up on the following year's list as well.