HikenNoAce said:
Raze said:
HikenNoAce said:
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Raze said:
The price of gas used to be $1.50/gallon too. There's no point living in the past. Numbers dwindle over time. The current numbers for 2013 show the PS3 selling at the rate I mentioned prior. Nothing at this stage is going to make the PS3 (or any other console) outperform previous years, short of a MAJOR price slash, and I'm talking like $125 PS3s, which won't happen.
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And once again, you ignore that 45% of PS3 sales occur during the holiday season. Good job, dude.
Also, what makes you think that the price will never drop that low?
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And once again, you ignore that the numbers I stated INCLUDE the increase during the holidays, even though I've already stated that twice.
Why won't the price drop that low? Simply because of the lack of profit for Sony in doing such. At this stage of the game, they're pushing efforts on the PS4, their upcoming flagship. Surpassing the Wii doesn't come with a money bonus, so they're not going to take a further financial hit just to boost their numbers. Come E3 2014, the Wii/PS3/360 gen will slow down to a point that will barely register in LTD sales/market share. It's merely the reality of the way the industry works. Games will come out for them still, but the sales will be nominal, at best.
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No, you didn't - you talked about the PS3 numbers for 2013. During the last holiday quarter so Oct-Dec 2012, the gap decreased at the rated of around 300,000 per week.
So, you're saying that Sony would rather get virtually no revenue from the PS3 than drop the price?
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It's not news that Sony loses money per console sold. There's a certain pricepoint that makes it not even worth selling for, because the revenue on the backend via software and licensing doesn't cover. For example, if you had a product that cost yuo $100 to make, sold it for $75, but would get $5 for every unit sold, you'd be doing ok. But if you started selling it for $20, the profit and investment would be negligible.
I'd like to see where you pulled those numbers from, seems a large margin of error for such an extended period of time. Black Friday- Christmas, I could believe, prior, seems unlikely.
