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thismeintiel on 02 January 2014
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Dark_Feanor said:
thismeintiel said:

You realize I said 25%-30%, right?  Granted, it will be closer to 30%.  Still, far from your made up 50%.  Care to explain where that came from?  And can you give the link where Sony called GT6 a mistake? 

Not sure what my thoughts on the PS4 have to do with PS3 sales, but whatever.  The reason that the PS3 will continue to sell, just like PS2 sold when the PS3 dropped to $399, is because not everyone is willing to drop $399 on a console.  A lot of people wait for it to drop to $299 or even $199, especially in developing nations.

And the Wii's sales started to drop incredibly before the Wii U's release, and was actually outselling the Wii U for awhile there, so that point is moot.


You chose to look only at PS2 case, 7 years ago, a very, very different situation:

1- PS3 was much more expencive than the PS2.

2- PS3 strugled for years with weak ports and delayed games.

3- PS2 recieved strong suport por third partys AND first party studios.

Now PS3 is falling 30% this year, following a 15% fall last year, even thought it was two years with strong suport from 3th and first party games. Surely things that the Wii didn´t have resulting in 33%, 54% and 63%  drops since 2011.

PS4 is doing fantastic, XOne is greate, 360 is still in shape, WiiU had a little breath of  hope, and I can add the tablets, smartphones and PCs as competition.

The price point is not that important in the major markets. Anyone in USA and EU that wanted a PS3 or a 360 already have one or both.

So, a nearly 50% (probably ~45% when all is said and done) drop YOY is still in shape, but your going to downplay PS3's ~30% drop.  You do realize that if the 360 repeats a 45% drop again, it will only sell ~3.5M next year.  If the PS3 sees another 30% drop next year, it will still sell ~6.3M.  That's a nearly 3M gap. 

And yes, a price cut to $99, or even $149, will give the PS3 a boost, even if it is a small one.  Of course, it's not the major markets that the PS3 will still be selling in in 2016-2017.  It will be the developing nations that Sony pushed the PS2 in after it was pretty much dead in the US and Japan.  Those countries will want to be moving onto a new system, too.  And since Nintendo and MS aren't really interested in pushing their consoles in those countries, they will be going for a cheap PS3.