Tridrakious said:
Resistance: Fall of Man, Virtua Fighter 5, MotorStorm and Oblivion were great games, that Sony felt justified the price of the PS3. Consumers did not agree. |
Where did you infer that from? If your stating their initial launch price, Sony's justification was the cost of Blu-Ray...and rightfully so. It had nothing to do with games. Stand alone players were priced between $800 and $1000 at the time. In the end, the initial high price of the PS3 is going to payoff. They are not running into the disc size constraints that the 360 is and the cell still has room to grow. The PS3 has a legitimate chance to exceed the 10 year life span that Sony wants.
Now that the PS3 manufacturing cost is belived to be under $300 I would think it's in their and shareholder interest to not be taking a loss on hardware anymore. If they can run a move package including the system for $350 and still turn a small profit...great. If the number needs to be $399, so be it. At some point all the game companies need to make money. They can't keep giving away their product.
And again, if it's going to cost $130 for the complete move package, there is nothing wrong with that. They just need to make sure that there are games to justify it. Early adopters will pay more than your average consumer. As the cost to produce the controllers comes down, so should the price.
Remember people had no problem dropping $100 on Wii Fit. People thought it was a new experience. Sony needs to create that same stigma for Move.