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Jandre02 on 27 November 2007
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Ok I have re-read your post a few times...
But heres whats weird, you are saying I am contradicting myself right? You are saying that because I say games are coming, along with price drops, that somehow I am just taking the parts that make my argument better. Ok well first.



1. I orginally got the price idea because analyst have said the price would drop. It would make sense to me because people don't usually just go out and buy things over $300 dollars without planning. At $299 it would be at the same price that the PS2 was at when it sold 30 million in two years. Then AFTERWARDS, a sony executive, (I forget who but if it will make people happy I can go find it) said that $299 is the ideal price point for the console. I dont think an executive would say this if there werent plans to do it for over a year. And Sony's biggest concern is not losing money on consoles, but selling consoles. Thats also the price point at which gaming consoles are acceptable. Add to this to the announcement that Toshiba will start producing cell processors at half the original size, and you see that most likely it will come true. SONY HAS NEVER ADMITTED TO ANYTHING BEFORE IT OCCURS! It also denied that rumble was coming, then a month later there it was.

2. I thought I posted this before, but as far as believing Sony about the upcoming year in games, its not them saying it its the developers. A good amount of them are third party developers. They are saying that their games will be completed next year, so as far as I know they will be. You can speculate all you want to, but seeing as most of them have already seen delays, it seems that they have delayed it enough to make the necessary improvements they want to. So im not listening to Sony there, im listening to developers, but in all honesty im less confident in games being released on time than I am in the upcoming price drop. However since many games are slated for Q1 or Q2 08, I see them atleast making it inside the calendar year.

Now heres something many of you arent realizing about this whole generation. Sony isn't competing with the Xbox. The Xbox has built this whole thing up, and IMO is largely to blame for this whole fanboy thing. The only people really benefitting right now from it is Microsoft. Sony is competing with the PS2, believe it or not.

The PS2, we should all be able to agree, was the most successful gaming console of all time. The PS3 is about the same thing as the PS2. (DONT KILL ME ILL EXPLAIN)

If you take off your fanboy goggles for a second, and step back a moment and look from a business perspective you can see what I mean.



1. The PS2 was priced at $299(ideal price point.) The PS3 will be priced at $299 as well.

2. The PS2 had GTA,GT5,FF,Madden,MGS, Socom, etc to move consoles. The PS3 has all of those games as well.

Sony knows what will sell, and they have many people on board that are much smarter and predict the market much better than either you or me. I am not believing anything, this is just what you figure out when you stop wanting a console to do better and look at the reality of the situation. Sony is not run by idiots, and if you think that after one year the console is "dying", even though it outsold Xbox360's first year and is outselling the 360 right now, your going to be in for a big suprise.


BTW if you are wondering, I own all 3 consoles. I like them all, but it doesnt change the fact that the PS3 is going to pass the 360, unless the 360 can find another way to elevate its sales and maintain it year long in 2008.