Hypothetical: What if the PS3 was $150 right now

[saicho]

EncodedNybble said:

jarrod said:
Inversely... what if Wii was $99 right now?

I think this wouldn't have that great of an effect (maybe a consistent 10% increase over current numbers).

Why?

Wii is already the cheapest console, people who want a game console but don't want to spend a lot of money (thus not caring which console they get) would probably own a wii.  To put another way all of the "impulse buys" from this price point would have to come from PS360 owners since the Wii has already been the most "impulse buy" console for a while.

 

The Wii has already been sold to like 1/6th of the world's population (I keed), so, unless penguins start buying Wiis, they have no more people to sell to.

This is the same thing people say about Wii price drop form $249 to $199 which didn't turn out to be true.

TWRoO said:

Netyaroze said:

Hmm maybe Sony could give the PS3 for free to everyone if you sign a contract that you will buy every month a game directly from Sony. For 3 years. Sony would sell 36 games per every free console and they would earn all back because retailer would be eliminated. Plus the royalties lets say 20 Dollar/Euro profit per game. If its a Sony title ofcourse a lot more.

20*36= 720-330 would be a nice profit it would be good for Sony and good for the hardcore player.


They could offer the games at the same prices they are sold at amazon. I would sign such a contract. Are there companies in the US which do that, it would be even cheaper for them because they are just paying the retail price.

An interesting concept. Although it would be something to be implemented at the launch of a console rather than mid-life, and at launch it was suspected the PS3 cost over $800 to produce.

While it's an interesting concept, it's basically PSP GO with contract since we are removing retailer out of equation. In addition, how many people you know actually buy 36 games in the whole console cycle not to mention in 3 years? If the number of games become 6 per year or even 4 per year, it would be much more attractive but then at the same time it wouldn't make Sony much money at all.