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mario64 on 20 January 2010
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disolitude said:
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There is a reason why I used the term children in my post (which gave me a warning for some reason). Unless you are seeing money from the console sales, It really is childish to cheer for a console.

And how much money are grown men sport fan seeing from their fav teams they relegiously cheer for ?

 

lol, its cause sports is a diversion. Its a way to get away from the real life problems for a couple of hours a week. That or you have some money riding on the game and have financial gain based on the outcome.

You just described video games for some people!

The actual games, absolutely. Sales of a console...not in the slightest. If your team sucks, you suck it up and wait till it gets better, if your console sucks, you dispose of it and get one that doesnt.

In any case, I really don't care...just have nothing better to do at work atm.

If I did care I'd point out how Sony is selling each console at a loss and how PS2 and PSP sales are dissapearing by the second which has been helping offset their PS3 losses for the past 2 years...and how games sales, which are the main source of revenue, still don't touch xbox 360, and how Xbox360 gets to sell their console for a profit and has an online model which they make money off as well.

But like I said, I really don't care which console sells more cause the bottom line is...there will be a 360 price cut if PS3 keeps outselling it and vice versa.

Yeah, if you did care, you would have posted exactly that post, although I know you don't care at all, though you're still posting. :p

Selling consoles at a loss is a part of business console model. You first lose money on consoles, then earns more on software and peripherals. MS does it, Sony does it. MS console is older, so Sony becomes profitable later, it's only logical. If your console doesn't sell enough, you lose bilions, like MS lost bilions on Xbox 1. Both Xbox 360 and PS3 are selling well and won't have this problem.

Your faith in a 360 price cut is a bit exagerated though. The 360 is already very affordable, the magic price is around 200$ (199$). It's already there. There are very few people left wanting a 360 who don't already own one. Making it even cheaper wouldn't help sales that much. In Europe we can already find 149 euros 360, and 299 euros PS3, yet PS3 sells a lot more (!). No further 360 price cut will save the day, any people wanting a 360 can already buy one at 149 euros...

Sony has a bigger margin for price cuts since the PS3 hasn't reached 199$ yet (but they need to wait to lose a bit less per console, it will happen).

Natal is a bigger hope in my opinion, while I still think it will ultimately fail since Eyetoy failed, and Wii already destroyed everybody in casual gaming.

But it's nice to see you accepted you cared about all that after all. We're all children inside I guess.