Greed or sense?

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NinjabreadMan said:

Desroko said:

Kyros said:

Name another console that has demand this high after 18 months, and I'll grant you the point.

How about another piece of consumer electronics...

I guess you can't, then.

It seriously amazes me that people are under the impression that increasing production is a matter of pressing a button or signing a check.

It's not as big a deal as some people seem to think either. Opening up a factory would cost money, probably a lot of money. It might satisfy their short term goals i.e. the next year, but not their long term goals over the next 5-6 years. Perhaps they believe that demand will not outstrip supply in numbers or amount of time to justify the knock to their profits.

"I believe that something must be wrong if we conduct our business with the premise that we will need to cut prices of our hardware as time goes on"

This is the sentence I have a problem with. It's not whether they cut the price now, but say in 4 years time, if it's still selling as this price i'd be pissed. Out of date tech should go down in price to reflect such.

You don't understand business then.  The statement has no relation to demand/supply.   Products don't drop in price simply because time has gone by but because demand and supply dictate it to maintain profits.

If a products retain the same demand, the MSRP willbe retained as well regardless of the company or product.

 What makes this unique is the simple fact that no product has maintained this level of supply/demand in a very long, long time.