The PS3, how can it win this gen?

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CrazzyMan said:
very simple: People will pay ANY price, just to play FFXIII, MGS4, GT5, FFXIIIv, KZ2, HS, LBP, Uncharted, Lair, 2! Team Ico games, Folklore, G3, NGS, GoW3, MS2, R&C, 8 days, Factor 5 - Turricane, Wardevil and so on. It`s not about LIST, x360, Wii also will have good games, my POINT - that true GAMER won`t ignore such amazing exclusive PS3 games. And another POINT - IF KZ2 really will look almost like e3 2k5 render (haze already looking good), then PRICE won`t matter at all. Just like people go to moovie-theater, to see AMAZING visuals, they will pay money, just to play game with AMAZING visuals. After releasing all those exclusive games, it will be only a matter of time, when it will win. And Wii, it`s just another game console, it`s like comparing ps3/x360 to PSP/NDS. It`s DIFFERENT auditory. =)

People won't pay any price to play a game. Well, at least the numbers Sony needs to win won't pay any price to game.

I don't think Sony has a chance of winning this generation. Their only hope is that they can bleed into next gen with the PS3 and make back some profits then. A price drop to $400 would put such a strain on SCE that it's not going to happen.

Optimistically speaking, let's say Sony is losing $100 on each PS3 in October this year. They drop the price to $400, meaning they're losing $300 on each console sold. That means that they would need to sell roughly 40 games (estimates for royalties are $7-8 per game, I gave them $8) for every console sold to break even.

That's never going to happen. And if they stay at $600 until next year, they're opening the door for MS and Nintendo to make significant price drops at the same time, negating any progress Sony would make with a later price drop.