| radha said: What about the southern hemisphere??? , i mean, part of the console market in the US i really latin american(we use NTSC and get everything from the US), not a very big part but a decent one, BUT WHO CAN PAY US$600 OVER HERE?? i could buy the PS2 when it come out at $US300, and now i can get more than one easy, i think there must be more than 3,000,000 PS2 in this country, and we have a 9,000,000 population, the PS2 was ok, but now the PS3 is 600 most people have to save for 1 year to get all that money and they would never buy a console with that. There are gamers in mexico, colombia, costa rica ect. ect ..... but we cant play. When i heard the prize of the PS3 i got angry not becouse i dont think is worth it but becouse the took away to posibility of me having fun whit it, is not that we are cheap is just imposible to buy a ps3, i want one and all my friends want one, but they are going to wait for the price to drop and in the mean time they are buying Wiis( 360 is very associate whit the big evil company image MS and most people dont like that). please will someone tell me what they think about they influence, although small but important of the console market in third world countries. |
The problem with the third world countries markets, are as you've stated. The amount of money made by the average person is lower than other countries. (Though they all currently make more money than me.) I think part of the solution to these problems would be to have console makers actaully manufacture a small portion of their product in these areas.
Secondly, companies would really have to take losses to get their foot in the door of smaller markets, because they would have to cut the prices down to make sure they could hit levels comparable to the mean market average compared to other countries. I think the best way to do this would be, again, have some of these products manufactured there. Making a lower-cost, market-specific model might help lower the prices for less wealthy markets, but it'll probably still hurt the wallets.
@albhum
I can see 1 and 2 of your points. 3, I doubt Home's going to be enough to draw people to paying 600 dollars, not from what we've seen of it. Maybe once it's gone through a few revisions and they tune it up to do something interesting, sure. But it sounds like it's just going to be a 'hip' way to try to sell microtransactions and ad space.
Motion sensing is in no way a fad. This technology is going to be here next gen. Now, the big thing is, will companies go the Nintendo route, or will they make a hybrid between complex controller and motion sensor? I'd just go ahead and nix motion control from the PS3, I don't see it being used nearly as well. The controller shape just doesn't really fit into true control in that sense, but it could have some cool uses.
I also don't see the Wii killing superproductions, at all. There are still going to be companies that want to make large scale, storytelling style games. They just won't have to spend so much to make them on the Wii, and they will be aiming at two consoles for the more graphical 360/PS3 route.
