bananaking21 said:
you got me wrong on the slaughtering thing, i didnt mean PS+ slaughtering xbox live. that would be ludacris to even claim. but i ment how the media is reacting now to ps+/xbox live. i was talking about the media, not sales numbers lol and as i said i think MS will do it. there might be a market for it. but comparing it to cell phones isnt the best comparision. for example when sony released the ps3 for 500/600$ people went crazy over how expensive it was, but then they would gladly go buy an iphone for 700 or 800 bucks. even now people are complaining about how the vita is expensive for 250 bucks but a cellphone for triple the price is normal. same goes for the WiiU. i understand subscibtions for cellphones are extremely expensive in USA in particuler, but cellphones are considered a nessity, gaming isnt. everybody should own a cell phone and use it, its a must for human interaction these days. gaming isnt, so there is a big initiative to buy a cellphone as compared to a game console but ill say one thing that people here tend to overlook, even though alot of people claim that MS arent bringing anything new to the gaming indusrty by not bringing any new IPs and all that stuff (no need to get into that lol) but they do bring something new and "innovate" in how they sell their console. heck its obvious even sony are starting to learn and their stratgy of selling consoles this year was very much taken out of MS's book. for example the limited edition bundles or instead of cutting the price add two games and 3 months of PSN/xbox live with the console. let third parties push the console for the core market insead of competing with them. all the deals with ubisoft for AC3 bundles and EA for battlefield and fifa bundles are all things sony didnt do until MS did it before them. my point is, if there is any company that is going to find a new way to sell its console, its probably gonna be MS. they know the US market better than sony and nintendo and they know how to reach that market better. so a subscribition based model for nextbox isnt unlikely, and it being successful isnt unlikely either. sorry for the very long post btw |
Nah i like long posts. Much better than short ones that really doesnt push a conersation at all lol
I bolded what i agreed with and underlined what i didnt agree with. I completely agree with phones are now a necessity and games are not but I also dont see people paying $600 for a phone. now i dont know the numbers but my guess would be that 90% of all phones are sold under a plan. Which means you are paying anywhere from 0.99c to $300 up front. I've never seen a phone more than $300 for a phone plan up front and even that is rare. I think most iphones are around $100(somebody will correct me if i'm wrong). But really the only reason you buy an unlocked phone is if you break your phone or some other miscellaneuos reason.
