How many of you really own a PS3?

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betsfro said:

Really im sorry for my bad english im from venezuela, but im really a nintendo supporter, i actualy own a Wii, Gamecube, and Nintendo Ds Lite, my Brother has a Xbox360 and i have played gears, lost planet, Raimbow six vegas, ghost recon and many of the other great games that the console haves, but like a week ago i bought a PS3, im gonna tale you from the start im a sony heather, but the PS3 is really a impressive piece of machien im really impress, i really dont know why it dosent sell well, its really not that expensive for a bluray player, an it those a lot of stuff, and if you and a wireless adapter to the xbox360 elite it almost cost the same, and i bet that all the heather of ps3 of this web page dosent even have one. im not telling you to go and buy one, because it really dosent have a good librery of games out yet, but im really impress that a very got machine like the ps3 is getting so bad publicity, because it really is not a bad console just a little pricy.

Yet another price discussion.  That's what it boils down to.  It's a great/cheap blue-ray player.  The absolute vast majority of U.S. households still don't have the means to view HD and even a smaller percentage can view 1080P.  Factor that out of the equation and you have (albeit a phenomenal one) a $600 video game console.

There is this little thing called the "mass market".  From Wikipedia:  "The mass market is a general business term describing the largest group of consumers for a specified industry product. It is the opposite extreme of the term niche market"

The PS3 is not priced or targeted as a mass market device.  The $600 price tag due to the included blue ray player (currently a VERY niche audience!) insures it exists as a "niche market" device until such time as pricing reaches mass market appeal. (probably around $250-$300 given the success of the Wii and continued success of the PS2)

I'm most certainly not arguaing that the PS3 isn't an amazing device or saying I hate it.  The cell and blue-ray are most certainly bleeding edge and some damn cool stuff.   I think most people who are sane and rational will admit as such.  The sane and rational PS3 fanclub certainly have to recognize that the price of the device is a huge barrier to mass-market adoption and that right now the only buyers of the device are the "innovators"

Check out here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm

That will give you an idea of the "chasm" that exists in adoption of technology and what lies ahead for the PS3 in terms of it's adoption rate.  The big variable, of course, is pricing.  Moving along the adoption curve is directly related to price...