Has Sony's focus on games trumped their recent missteps??

[DonFerrari]

naruball said:

Shinobi-san said:

Theres no way to get those exact numbers, we just giving opinions here.

Sony already has a cheaper alternative in the slim. I dont think adding the UHD blue ray drive would add much at all to the Pro cost, so i dont know where super expensive comes from.

Not exactly. Marketing people exist for a reason. They found out what we already knew, i.e. that the number of people willing to buy UHD blu ray players and 4k Blu rays is tiny. So it would be a bad business decision to include something most people will never use and force them to pay for it.

Read my sentence again. I was very clear. I never said that the UHD blu ray alone would make it super expensive, but an effort to make it better at everything than the competitor (hence the bolded). The argument was that you should never give the consumer a reason to buy another product. No, you absolutely should. If only a few consumers actually care about that and more care about the sub 400 USD price, then you should go with the lower price. The marketing team probably saw that 400 was as high as they could go. 399 probably sounds better than 420 to the average cosumer.

Yep, people here defend all the time that PS4 sold more because was cheaper (until X1 got cheaper and still outsolded by PS4 but then it was momentum... and now on BF again people said PS4 sold more because it was cheaper) but when we talk about the driver making the console cost 20 bucks more (or 20 less profit per sold console) then they act like 20 is nothing. Yes on substance it's quite irrelavant, but as a mental barrier it's quite effective.