Sony: 'Price doesn't make or kill a platform'

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disolitude said:

superchunk said:

He's setting up the NGP for a higher price point. They are setting up the expectations so when a $350 or $400 price is mentioned people are not as surprised as they were with the $600 PS3.

Granted, the PS3 is not a bad platform and its price was necessary for its features. But, had they began with a feature set more like the slim model (only larger) they could have potentially had a $500 system with similar features and been better out the gate.

In the end though, price is a very important piece of the puzzle, but more than anything else, content is king.

Thats what I said...

Sony inability to keep price under control at lauch = necessary to make statemtns like this

However it turns out it wasn't related to this topic at all.

but they HAD to launch the ps3 at the price that is was to even get to the smaller slim.  It's not like they had the sim model and the phat model both at launch and decided to go with the phat one, your point would have had a little bit of breaings if that was the case but you and I both know that wasn't the case.

that and.....that aint what you said but we won't get into that again