| JouninGarret said: "Month after month this will continue, and the constant doom-and-gloom will prevent many people from buying a PS3." HappySquirriel,you think the percentage of potential videogame systems buyers who are either encouraged or put off by what articles say,is very high? |
Folks could care less about articles - trust me, I know this - but they will care when retailers, who aren't making a lot of money, stop carrying the device and accessories. Look at MP3 players. iPods aren't reliable - and very fragile, but the public has rallied behind them - and guess what? Retailers know they are hot and will carry tons of accessories? Why? Because they know if they buy it, it will sell. There are much, much better MP3 players out there that can play music so much better than iPods, but ... no one is interested in them. And good luck finding accessories. If they have them, it's a paltry offering.
The turnaround time between buying it and reselling it for profit is horrible for the PS3. If they can't sell the PS3 and accessories, that's a loss. Enough loss and the retailer will look for greener pastures.
For the PS3, folks are mainly buying it for the name, even if it's a shell of its former self. Just like Atari. Folks buy Atari products not because they are awesome, but because they know the name Atari means old skool software. Forget that the old Atari died in the 80s ... name recognition goes a lot further than quality.
