Sony- Desperate or Aggressive

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EnosStory said:

cowbourne said:

EnosStory said:

kn said:
This is "agressive" behavior by Sony to get consoles sold. Cutting the price of their various SKUs as well as ramping up marketing is aggressive. Period.

On the other hand, Toshiba is doing the same thing with their HD-DVD players but apparently their acts are acts of desperation and not agression.

I'm at a loss to tell which is which so I can't help you.

losing more $ on hardware then the revenue it brings in = desperate.
losing $100/150 on a $600 product to sale more = agressive.

Very simple unless your pro bais towards MS side of things.

You basically said the same thing, but your bias leads you to two different conclusions. We don't know if Toshiba or Wal-Mart were taking the loss on the $100 A2's. We do know, however, that Sony is taking a loss on every PS3 that is sold.

If Toshiba is footing the bill on the losses for the A2, then it's the exact same thing. They are both losing money to sell a product. There is no difference whatsoever. If Toshiba is desperate, then Sony is desperate too. Your differentiation does not make sense at all, because they are, again, the exact same scenario. Hopefully you can see this fallacy in your little argument.

 

Toshiba is losing MORE money then the A2 sales bring in revenue, do you not understand that ?

 

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 Really, you know this for a fact?  You got a source?  Or, did someone on SDF tell you this was so.  How do you know how much it costs Toshiba to make the A2 for?  For all you know, they might have already broken even on them, and they can sell these so cheap it doesn't matter.  Just because they dont still sell them for more, doesnt mean they are automatically losing money, or alot of money at that.  It has become aparant to me, and what appears to be everyone else, that you have no idea what you are talking about, becuase you have so much bias you can't see two feet in front of you.