flagstaad on 12 April 2012
| Michael-5 said: Yea, that's true, but the PS3/360 were a huge change in console marketing. Prior to those systems, most systems didn't start off at over $300, and PS3 started at $600.... |
And at $600 it struggled a lot and even with a $500 edition it had many problems selling at the beggining, some developers were delaying their games and it was the previous market leader with the console that "almost everybody" was waiting for. I think no console creator wants to reach that price ever again. $400 seems to be the sweet spot for new consoles, and for a console to generate some profit (even a small one) the cost of the parts have to be around $220-$250 and those parts will not make a very powerful device.
