America up!!!

[Twistedpixel]

leo-j said:

Twistedpixel said:

darkshadow23 said:

Underdog: a participant in a fight, conflict, or game who is not expected to win

 

A $600 console launching a year later than its competition does not seem very likely to win if you ask me.

Yeah because the Wii isn't competition right.......

Oh and the comparable difference in the U.S. at least was $100 was it not between the 20GB PS3 and the 20GB Xbox 360 at the time of launch?

The 360 was $299/$399 at launch..and had gears of war during the 2006 holiday season

The ps3 was $499 (limited sku was killed off once 2007 came on in) and then only $599 in the U.S

PRICE was always the issue for the PS3, the brand image was there, and now it has been hurt dramatically.. so there you have it.

 

That $299 was without a memory card and the primary console unit was the 20GB Xbox 360 with comparable features with the PS3 20GB which was $100 cheaper. The $299 Xbox 360 Core hardly sold much at all, probably its main market was early RROD victims.

What confuses me is that whenever someone talks about the level of price reductions the console was $499 in America and of course it only got a $100 cut but when people talk about how good the console sold people say that it sold really well for a $599 console. So you're 100% talking about the $599 60GB? Good.

I would say the only issue with the price is that it gave people who would have bought the console right off the bat without many games a pause for thought. It wasn't that the console was expensive, it was that it was expensive without any AAA games and came out at the same time the Xbox 360 just got a pair of excellent games in Oblivion and Gears of War which both dominated their respective genres at the time.

I don't suspect the price because the PS3s audience is mostly people in their 20's and had they wanted it they would have bought it. Its not the price but the lack of compelling reasons to buy it for that price which was the problem. People spend more than $600 U.S. on TVs, travel, cars, entertainment etc.

It was during 2006 at worst $100 more expensive, during 2007 at worst it was $200 more expensive but then at one point it was only $50 more expensive than the Xbox 360 Premium during the end of the year. The difference being that in 2007 the Xbox 360 again had more great content released and a massive system selling in Halo 3. Price doesn't answer everything because there are pros/cons in terms of features as well, but content certainly does explain a lot of the rest.