Blaiyan said:
@Passenger57 Okay so we already know playing catch up is hard. I can hope for the ps3 to have success but who knows what the future holds? It can only do three things. Get worse, stay the same or get better. @misterd I understand what you're saying. I guess some people need some killer application to buy but I just play games I like. Before I bought a ps3 I didn't even know about heavenly sword and resistance. I just got it because I kept thinking my ps2 was going to stop working any day now. Anyway I don't understand the attack on the price cut. Isn't that what people wanted? Shouldn't they have cut it to sell more? I can agree with you ps3 haters that we can't say every great game will sell millions because with all these consoles sold I really have no idea what my fellow owners are buying. But I do believe that by the end of 2008 if the ps3 owners numbers are up to like 17million games that you see sell 500,000 copies in three months will probably jump to 1 milllion in 3 months. |
Different people have different reasons to get consoles. Many of us (those on the boards) tend to be loyal to certain brands -Nintendo in my case, Sony/Sega for my wife- and will get those consoles content that good titles will come. But many people need a compelling game that justifies the hundreds of dollars demanded by a new console (for me, it was KOTOR that was the final nail to get me to buy an XBox). So far, Sony has not had many games that such gamers thinks justifies the $400-500 down payment. Of course, the lower the console price, the less "killer" the app has to be to justify the purchase (I don't care how good Mario Galaxy may be - I wouldn't drop 4 bills for the privilege to play it).
As for the price drop, it is what Sony should have done, but remember this was coming off original PR that the console was underpriced, and a general arrogance about their position. And the first price cut was handled in a bad way, as they tried to hide the fact that it was, in fact, a fire sale, and that they would soon follow with a second price cut with new models with missing features (that was also denied). It was just badly handled on the PR side, and given the woeful state of the PS3 at the time, it was almost comical to those of us standing on the sidelines. It is, however, what ended up reversing the consoles fortunes (to a degree), especially since MS's own troubles kept them from matching with an aggressive cut of their own.
