VGKing said:
I'm sure everyone wants an ultra powerful console, they just dont' want to pay $600 for it. I would be fine paying $600 for a PS4 if it meant it was a beast of a machine, but a pricepoint that high would alienate many Playstation fans and force them to go to a cheaper alternative. |
This is like one of those marketing focus group questionnaires in which consumers being polled check all the boxes for what they want in the given product followed by what they would be willing to pay for it. Often times, just about every box will be checked but when it comes to how much they'd pay for all those options and features, what they check is usually between unrealistic and laughable.
With the PS4, SCE would be best off by not trying to impress the hell out of potential customers (like the ones who won't be buying one for at least two years until the price goes down and there's an established back catalog of cheap games) with what the hardware is capable of doing (which will be vastly different from what it will actually do initially) and instead just cater to developers by making it as developer friendly as possible with the appropriate amount of main memory, video memory and processing power to facilitate the ease of development without having to reinvent the wheel with unnecessarily complex architecture and incomplete development coding tools and libraries.
Sell it at a reasonable price without taking a $200+ hit per unit over production cost and as long as the software supports the asking price, the will be enough early adopters to support soft sales that keep developers interested in supporting the platform.
