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^Price cuts don't matter on lifetime sales? Now I know you can't be serious. As the console get older and the lifecycle goes on, the news value and demand automatically decrease, that's why we have revisions, new products, updates and successors all the time, its the nature and the very core of the consumer market. Do you actually believe what you're saying or does it simply fit your views to believe it? Price is a big factor in hardware sales, there's no denying it. Why did the Mustang sell so fast? It was affordable. Cutting the price later would not have made it the same phenomenon it became, it caught on as a favourite because of performance at an affordable price and this was paramount to its success. I believe price is what has held back quite a few PSP sales, it launched at a high price and has stayed at a high price. If the Wii had launched at a 600$ price point, people would never have bought them, doubly so when veiwing the hardware specs, it would be laughable (even the PS3 was laughable at that price) and a 250$ entry price PS3 would have been an insanely good deal and there's no doubt that this would have added a lot of sales lifetime.

axt113; where did I say that mainstream customers drool over hardware? I'm making the point that a mainstream customer will think twice about buying a more expensive console and I cannot believe that you guys are even arguing that at all.