Would Sony be fine with a $499 price tag on the Orbis?

[Turkish]

kowenicki said:

Turkish said:
Yes. Especially in Europe. Europeans have been paying €500 for PS2s more than a decade ago.

The electronics industry has changed, people are willing to spend more money on devices, that was not the case when PS3 launched. People pay 500 dollaz on tablets, if PS4 is advertised right, people will want to pay 500 dollaz for it aswel.

 

Really?  no.

Im sure you just make stuff up and hope nobody knows different or checks. 

The PS2 launched at £299 in the UK.  I remember it.  

The euro didn't even exist properly at the time (notes and coins 2002) and the ps2 launched at 2990 francs in France, that would be 450 euros back then, but you are talking about a TOTALLY different exchange rate climate.  Also the price fell away very, very quickly when sales didn't take off in the Eurozone.  Indeed sales of the ps2 began to collapse globally until they really dropped the price and brought out the slim. 

So not only are you comparing apples and oranges, your starting point is just wrong. 

500 euros for a console and you can kiss any meaningful sales goodbye.  It won't happen. 

 

It was 20,000 belgian francs which translates to €500, I'm sure in german marks and dutch guldens it was also around €500. The euro didn't exist then but since you live in the UK you never were aware that stores had Euro prices long before the euro was officially introduced.