souixan on 17 November 2007
| ismael said: it's not a bad idea, but i thing it will work until fall 2008, but in summer 2009, the price must be 200 without the second wiimote and nunchak, or even cheaper, because the ps3 would have reached the 250 price and it mustn't be good, althought the ps3 is not in the same market of the wii. |
The thing is you really can't compare it at the moment, each system drops when it needs too. When demand drops prices drop, these companies don't drop the instant they can unless they have to believe me they want money. If they can get money AND sales they will and they'll do it for as long as they can. If the PS3 was selling as expected at 600$ and 500$ you'd never see a 400$ model you'd never have seen new models to make them cheaper etc. Sony would have milked them as long as possible at 600$. Chances are Sony is taking a bigger initial hit at the 400$ and 500$ price drops I see no significant cost reductions in either blu ray diodes or in the system itself.(I do see some. removal of the PS2 hardware dropped production a bit) There have been reductions in the PS3 hardware itself but nothing to warrant a price drop like has happened. It seems to be a Blu ray & PS3 push trying to get them into homes. Wii really doesn't need this and expect to see colors released as an effort to milk the 250$ price as long as possible before a price drop occurs. It's just like PS2 and GCN the stronger system doesn't always have to be more. The GCN is theoretically a better system in every way from processing power to graphics(almost double the power give or take in processing). It was cheaper then the PS2 and is cheaper then the PS2 to this day as far as I've seen. If what you said had any bearing on it.. the GCN being 150$(and newer!) while the PS2 was 199.99(and older!) the GCN would have crushed the PS2 but it didn't.. Just keep this in mind. Undoubtedly price cuts will help the PS3 but at what cost and how much will it help?
