platformmaster918 on 18 February 2013
| UncleScrooge said: This will certainly lift baseline sales to a certain degree. I don't know where the notion of "price cuts only provide temporary boosts" came from but it's wrong. The PS3's 2009 price cut + slim combo lifted baseline sales a lot and Wii's 2009 price cut lifted baseline sales as well - sales just went down in 2010 because of a lack of games. The 3DS price cut spurred sales a lot. You just need games to back the price cut up and keep momentum high. In Vita's case it will be a price cut + some games (at least in Japan) so sales will increase. If the price cut doesn't lift baseline sales at all it will be a clear indicator that the platform is dead - if there is demand a price cut will increase that demand. If a price cut doesn't help there's no demand to begin with. Let's hope that isn't the case. Of course a price cut won't do miracles so I agree with most of you guys on this one. Here's hope for cheaper memory cards. Do it Sony, it'll give you at least one more customer  |
I've been saying very often for awhile that they should cut all memory card prices in half and introduce a 64gb card for $75 while discontinuing the 4gb one. Digital Distribution is being pushed on this platform with plus and crossbuy and we will need the space if this system is going to be around for years to come.
