| Onibaka said: For the purpose of gaining marketshare, Sony should follow a similar strategy from Microsoft. Microsoft is able to make a sub $200 version of X360 because the new owners of the plataform have a great possibility of later on buying a propietary HDD and signing up for Live. Sony should launch a $200 PS3 with this strategy: -4GB/8GB heap flashmemory build-in. -Faster BD drive. The PS3 Blu-ray drives are pretty outdated now. Also releasesa patch for games that have obligatory install on HDD. The faster drive would be able to handle those games fine. -Make a HDD Bay that only allows only Sony HDDs to be readed. -Give 1 or 2 months of free PSN Plus. That would be a incentive for two things: buying a subscription, and buying a Sony HDD. -Improve the $300 version. More USBs, Memory Stick support, maybe even PS2 emulation. Also releases new Colour(like the japan's silver and white PS3s) in order of making the $300 version looking Premium. -??? -Profit! |
Agreed it will be a sales booster once PS3 drops in price again. Unfortunatly some of your suggestions really dont help reduce the cost, only inclrease. Adding additonal USB ports, PS2 emulation, different colors, incrased Blu-Ray drive speed?
I agree most of your argument is how adding appealing ameneties will help sell to the consumer, but certainly is not a good approach for Sony if cost saving is a goal. The 4/8 GB disk is a good way to save money, but fragment your userbase in an unproductive way. Xbox 360 already fragmented their userbase by offering the arcade versions with no hard disk, which frustrated developers as they could not assume that everyone will have a hard drive.
