Kerotan said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
I get what your saying but would that really be a good business decision for them? Cause firstly, winning 2/3 isn't really a bad thing, secondly its not like they will sell 0 consoles in NA cause most likely, it will be close. So, with that in mind, lets presume (I dont have any actual numbers for this so this is just for the sake of an example) that Sony makes $50 per ps4 sold as of right now so if they cut the price of the ps4 by $50, they will break even. So, if thats true or its something like that, I think it would be wizer to make that $50 profit rather than to break even cause even if they don't sell as much as they would otherwise, they will, imo, make more profit this way and they need it after all the money they lost as a whole company
I really don't think they need to something aggressive until at least 2015 to counteract the price cut cause I think in the eyes of many, the ps4 will still be a better solution and whatever sales they will lose, imo, will be less than what they will gain through just making profit off of per console sold. (If that makes any sense). They will eventually do a price cut but I really don't think that the ps4's momentum will be that drastically stopped cause of this. At its worse, it will lose in one territory and at its best, it will win in all
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agree with sme of that but MS will get a massive PR bost in December after they take Nov. I think SOny are better taking the 50$ hit and seling way more consoles. They will easily make it back multiple times with PS Plus subs, software sales and accesories.
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Well... Again, thats argueable... Cause if they make profit while selling consoles + ps+, it will = more profit than making 0 while selling consoles and only ps+. And its not like they make $60 on ps+ cause they do have to give games for free so they do lose some potentical sales.
My overall point is that, according to pachter, on a full $60 USD game, Sony/MS makes $12 per game. So, in order to get about $50, they need to sell 4 $60 retail games on their respective platform (for third party games that is since they sell the most on these consoles). So, if they can sell a console with guaranteed profit of $50, that means that they have to rely less on consumers having to buy at least 4 fully priced games in order to give them the same amount of profit (again, third party).
So, imo, I don't think its that nessesary for them to do so this year but next year, sure
