| Shadow1980 said: This subject again? *le sigh* Well to reiterate myself yet again, except for the Wii, no major console released in the past two decades has gone for more than two years without a price cut (and even the SNES got one in less than 10 months, though the Genesis may or may not have just missed the two-year mark), and except for the 360 no system that launched at $300 or higher received an initial price cut of less than $100. Here's every major console released since the fifth generation, with the time until their first price cut and how big said cuts were: Saturn: 5 months (-$100) The PS4 will almost certainly get a price cut this year, and it'll most likely be for $100. |
I agree totally, I'm pretty sure that every Playstation home console has been released at a loss, PS4 was breaking even at launch and was already stated to be profitable within a few months of it's release.
It's doubtful that any of those systems were making as much money off of hardware alone as PS4 is right now and a $100 price cut down to $299 would spike the install base numbers up harder than anything this year. Bigger install base means Software sales will move like crazy.
