3DS perfectly follows the PS3 path to success

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HappySqurriel said:

Mr Khan said:

I would like to point out on the issue of price that 3DS is sold at a profit, while PS3 was sold for a very heavy loss even at that excruciating price, therefore even if price *were* a putoff for consumers (and survey says it certainly isn't for now), Nintendo's got more flexibility on the matter than Sony "$200 loss per unit" did.

I'm still not convinced that the price of the 3DS is the problem some people make it out to being ...

It is more expensive than Nintendo handhelds have typically been, but it isn't that expensive compared to most portable electronics, there have been other handheld systems that have done well at that price, and even after 6 years on the market people were buying the DS at (roughly) $200. On top of that, I'm still not convinced that the NGP won't be so expensive that it makes $250 suddenly seem like a bargain; after all, if you look at how the exchange rate between the US dollar and Yen has changed over the last 6 years, if they maintained the American price relative to the Japaneese price, the DS would have launched at (roughly) $225 and the PSP would have launched at (roughly) $375. Hypothetically speaking, if the NGP is announced to be $399 lots of people will see $250 as being an affordable system.

This is actually true, forgot the name of the effect but kids use it all the time when wanting toys, "you can get me this 20 dollar toy!" "thats too much" "how about this one?" *pricetag 40 dollars* "you know that 20 dollar toy doesn't look so bad now"

But to counter your statement the NGP actually has to HAVE a price first for that effect to happen.