joeorc said:
yes it does, inflation is like sying $500.00 is not $500.00 its the perception of that value, if the PS2 was released in the USA at that Price how would it have done even than? i bet along the same line's as the PS3 has done. you can have great support for a system, but if the perception of the entry price is too high it would not matter! example: many people today who have been keeping pace with this , would have said the PS3 was too expensive @ $500.00+ but many went a head and paid $400.00 for the xbox360. it's like the old afddage it's not $20.00 it's $19.95. many people complained about the Price of $500,00 for the PS3 BUT PAY $400.00 FOR SEAT'S TO A OSU home game that they get to go to one! value perception has more to do with it than just price. |
Why are you talking about dollars? Im saying that in Europe the price has never been a factor because for the most part the price has always been as high as it was. Since price is removed as a factor then you have to look at the good work of the competition for the reasons why the PS3 performed poorly relative to the PS2 in that region.
Within 6 months of the PS2s launch there were a lot of shortages, within 6 months of the PS3s launch the price was too high. That doesn't make much difference in terms of overall demand for that region as one roughly counters the other and then the PS3 price drops and availability is no longer constrained so therefore extremely comparable.
The world doesn't revolve around the U.S. and the price of the Playstation there. Read the graph again and see that the PS3 falls behind the PS2 and price was never a factor. The Wii stole the Playstation market and ditto for the Xbox 360 to a lesser extent. The PS3 got schooled because the other consoles got appealing content and experiences out faster and more often in the first couple of years. It had nothing to do with the PS3 being too expensive.
Do you know what its like to live on the far side of Uranus?