| Adinnieken said: Did you actually think about what you just said? I didn't think so. You somehow believe you can scale down the price of a PS3 to $179 or $149, yet you can't offer a PS3 BC module for $100. So, without a power supply, without the controllers for USB, WI-FI, Bluetooth, or SATA, and without the Blu-Ray drive and all the excess plastic and metal involved, you don't think it could cost $100? |
Ya, I actually did think about it. Sony could sell PS3 to emerging and 3rd world countries with lower income per capita for $149-179 and take a loss on those consoles in hopes of making up the profits in software sales in those new markets. Selling a $100 module and making $0 serves them no purpose whatsoever. In the first case, it would allow PS3 to carry on the legacy of PS2 and sell more than 100 million consoles, and allow it to capture completely new consumers. In the second case, Sony would need to design a special module, spend extra $ on testing it, do a redesign of the motherboard, PSU. All of that would add more uncessary costs and occupy employee resources where they would be better spent on making sure PS4's launch is stellar. You also didn't address any of the technical issues I brought up regarding cooling or power of such a module.
Also, why would PS3 owners want to spend $100 extra on a module that will make PS4 look ugly, take up more space, when the whole point of BC is to alleviate these inconvenicnes to begin with? Why in the world would someone with a working PS3 go out and spend extra $100 on a module that's not even a stand-alone PS3 if they can just put stack their PS3 on top of their PS4?
Sony's management should be focused fully on PS4 because if PS4 flops again financially like PS3 did, the company might not even survive. For that reason as well, removing physical BC is better. If Sony's management cares about making $, they'll sell remastered Full HD versions of the best PS3 games via PSN+/Gaikai and make extra profits from people who never owned a PS3.
