PS2 vs PS3 revenue on hardware

[Squilliam]

theprof00 said:

Squilliam said:

It isn't a good comparison. You have to take into account the fact that Sony cut the price of the PS2 well before they actually needed to from a sales perspective because they prioritised market share. You have to remember that not everyone who pays $199 or $299 for a console would be unwilling to pay more, infact most would be willing to pay more. Another thing is that the launch price in Euros betweem

Also you have to take into account that the value of the PS2 in 2006 dollars was $347 if you take inflation into account.

Finally you also have to factor in memory cards. Every PS3 has internal memory whereas the PS2 required additional memory cards.

Nice try but I don't think you can really make any real conclusions with the data you presented or at least not the conclusion you're trying to make.

(underlines) I did take it into account. You just probably stopped reading.
(bolded) Source please

As far as differing currencies and etc etc, there's just no point. You call it all the same and treat them equally, and there should be only minor error. PS3 launched at 499 and 599, both in dollars and pounds and euros. The same didn't happen with ps2. It was priced based on the currency value. Like I said, I erred on the side of being wrong.

You took it into account? How can you take something like that into account? Generally when you cut the price you lower the hardware revenue so by lowering the price quicker Sony didn't take as much hardware revenue. If the console sells 100k @ $300 there are still 70k people whom would have paid $400 or more. Every time the PS3 cut the price it was still selling at the higher price so people who would have paid more then suddenly don't have to.

If you don't take into account inflation then how can you compare the two values accurately? You didn't even add the memory cards which every PS2 owner had to buy. I think you erred on the side of being a little bit irrelevant because you didn't even get the basics like inflation or memory cards to make it more of an Apples/Apples comparison.