PS4 will sell more in its first year than PS3 in its peak year

[DonFerrari]

Turkish said:

Dusk said:

Turkish said:
Just wait when it's 299 next year... it's gonna sell even more.

What makes you think it's going to drop to 299 next year? Maybe near the end of the year to try to boost sales if it's necessary (meaning if sales slow down), but Sony can't afford to throw away too much money on consoles, their software sales haven't been as good as they were hoping. Well, the entire industries software sales have been down.

What makes you think Sony can't afford to lower the price to 299 next year? Do you seriously think consoles dont become cheaper to manufacture?

What makes you think their software sales havent been as good? Go check how many million sellers there are on the platform, and this is without the unranked digital sales which are much bigger this gen.

You know that since PS3 costing almost 900 to make and selling it for 600 racking a pure lost of 300 (per unit) but even though cutting the price within 2 years of launch definetely rule out the possibility of Sony cutting 100 while that would probably mean 30-50 lost per console.... logic in VGC is always strong.

If someone reasons that it isn't in the best interest of Sony to cut the price and lose money on HW maybe he could be right, but to say they can't afford is wrong... Sony will cut the price when demand isn't matching their expectation/producing capacity and they analyse and see they can make more money selling more at loss to have more SW sold (growing marketshare, then SW and PS+ being more important than profit on HW). But if they keep selling close to their inventory level at current price they will hold out... that is the main reason X360 and PS3 stoped dropping in price after some time, they saw there wouldn't be enough gain in marketshare to justify the lost revenue in HW.

But some users will always go to the "MS can afford to sell the console for 100 to pass PS4 (losing 300-400 per console)" and/or "Sony can't afford a 50 price cut (breaking even at the moment)", like if MS is a charity or ruled by fanboys or as if Sony is so broken they can't take some millions hit to recoup with more profits if that is their plan.