Sony relying on heavily bundled and/or deep discount just to get games into million sellers list?

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VGKing said:

Devi_Survivor said:

Galaki said:

It is not a bad thing in the customers' side. We get more bang for our bucks with either a "free" game or half-priced game very early on the new releases. However, is Sony just cutting into their profit when they utilize this way too often?

So much so that Nintendo is following their footsteps. Yes, Nintendo is copying Sony, again.

The difference is that Nintendo managed to sell those "free" games at (near) full price for years.

Well Galaki, in order for Sony to cut profits they would actually have to make a profit in the first place, which they are not doing at moment and have not for like 5 years running lol. Also, isn't it always Sony copying Nintendo? PS move and PS allstars anyone lol?

He was talking about Playstation, not Sony as a whole.

But you're right, Vita desperate needs a price cut, but Sony just can't take that big of a hit right now. So they HAVE to offer value with stuff like Playstation Plus. With the 3DS, Nintendo saw that consumers didn't see it was worth the $250......so they cut the price. Sony's only option to is to convince people that the Vita is worth those $250. At least until the first Vita redesign which will probably come with a price cut.

Funny Fact: The 3DS sold about 3.5 million at full price.($250) while the Vita is at about the same with 3.7m.(but took much longer to reach this figure)
But the Vita was taking a loss since Day 1...the 3DS was profitable if I'm not mistaken. 

Hope this sheds some light on why the Vita is "flopping" and why Sony hasn't been able to turn things around.

Another problem is that Sony said PS segment will be profitable this year, and they can't really keep that promise if they have a vita pricecut. Their fiscal year ends march 31, so you could either expect a vita pricecut then, or near august/september