| bdbdbd said: @Alby: Wasn't it possible to retire in Italy after working for 35 (or 30) years? Go to work when you're 15 and retire when you're 50 (or 20 and 55). It's a great system to create jobs, but the expense is high. It's a little hard to say what will be the "sweet spot" for each product, but we'll likely have to wait until january to see where the sales eventually settle. Pricecuts, big Q4 game releases and christmas inflate the sales for the rest of the years. |
In the past. It could have kept on working if the system wasn't crushed by debt from the past, when three factors were undermining it:generalized wast of money in every public agencies, privileged categories (bank and insurance employees, politicians, some government employees, but not those of the Ministry of Education, always the Cinderellas of our State) that received far more than the just return of their investment at the expenses of the system and other workers, and another factor, through all the '70s and part of the '80s, public pension system wasn't required to make investment profit, luckily it invested a lot in real estate, otherwise it would be bankrupt now, but the State made it sustainable simply making payments due by workers and employers skyrocket.
About sweet spots, yes, it's very complicated to figure them out, they vary depending on the product, for example here it's somewhere under 370€ for high end fridges and dishwashers, under 240€ for low end fridges and washing machines, in the past it was around 500€ for TV sets, but for not really necessary appliances, like consoles, it's heavily influenced by the fashion factor.
Edit @buzzi:
Già. Indeed. Personalmente potrei prendere una PS3 al massimo a 200€ per alcuni suoi giochi, qualità grafica e per l'extra costituito dal BD, ma a meno di 130€ la Wii sarebbe il miglior complemento per un giocatore su PC come me. Personally, I could get a PS3 under 200€ for some of its games, graphics quality and the extra benefit of BD, but for less than 130€ the Wii would become the best complement for a PC gamer like me.
