jarrod said:
psrock said:
jarrod said:
psrock said:
jarrod said:
psrock said:
jarrod said:
24k is a fast drop, especially after how well it held last fall, most expected that to continue. PS3's had fairly full lineup too, it's not like there's been any game drought. That's the only point, that Japan's resurgence already seems to be fading. And really, it goes without saying that FFXIII was probably the biggest release PS3 will ever see... the only thing bigger it could get would be a mainline Dragon Quest (not happening) or Nintendo games (really not happening).
As for price, the Japanese PS2 in 2000 launched at 39,800 yen. That's equivalent to $546.45 today... and price never seemed to hold PS2 back.
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all the consoles are dropping, why is the PS3 one so different?
the PS3 lauch price was twice of the PS2 which sunk them deep into second place, 60,000 yen at first which cost them tons of sales. And go look at the PS2, they sold 24k weekly plenty of times, but dominated during Holiday seasons.
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Eh, no PS3 launched at 49,980 yen. Equivalent to $585.79 today. Or about $40 more, not near "twice the price".
And Wii's held better than expected. Honestly, current Wii sales are more what I expected PS3 to be at this time (35-40k).
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tp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6135452.stm
The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is being sold in two configurations. The more expensive version has a 60GB hard drive and wi-fi on board and costs, in Japan, 60,000 yen (£270). The cheaper version has a 20GB hard drive, lacks the wi-fi and will cost 49,980 yen (£222). European prices are expected to be higher than direct comparisons suggest
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lol. Did you read your own quote? I'm not seeing "twice the price" anywhere, but I do see "49,980 yen"!
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I am going to sleep, but nice one ignoring the 60, 000 yen PS3 which was the one Sony actually made availble at launch and was the true version. But, I did not expect you to see it.
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I'm not ignoring anything, but then I'm not making up any "true version" nonsense. If 20GBs were really not "actually made available" I wonder why retailers started price slashing them not even two months after launch...
Again, price wasn't PS3's problem in Japan. Never has been, the problem is games.
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Yeah the 20 gig was more of a factor in Japan than in the west, they had it in stock and didn't drop the model nearly as early. Hard drive space is generally not as important for the Japanese gamers as well, downloading games is not nearly as popular.
Using an today's exchange rate and comparing it with yen in the past isn't the way to compare prices, even though the yen is really strong it is not that much of an issue inside Japan. You should be comparing it by price+inflation. If you want to go back a few years it was like 140 yen to 1 dollar, it has gotten around something like 85 yen to the dollar now, that doesn't mean that inside Japan things cost that much more. I've experienced this firsthand in Japan and Korea.
Either way though i agree with your conclusions, Japan has shown that price isn't the problem
