onionberry said:
The ps3 price was $499-$599. To be fair the ps3 had that value in terms of hardware because sony thought that people wanted a $600 machine. What happened later? they had to lower the price and they lost a lot of money. |
Sony actually throught people wanted a ~$800 machine, but didn't think anyone would pay ~$800 for it. Sony initially sold the PS3 at a loss, and not just a small loss, a big loss (rumored to be around $200 per unit). So if people were to take your stance at a time, Sony was doing people a huge favor by selling a device valued at $800 for *only* $600, and we're not even counting the cost of the R&D and development of the PS3, which was probably the most expensive console to develop ever at that point.
But people looked at all of those features, that blu-ray drive, that 8-core CELL processor, that whopping 256 MB of RAM, and decided en-masse, that the Xbox 360, with its cheaper price tag, with its better graphics, and with its much larger game library that ran better (it came out a year earlier remember) was a better deal. They decided that those features weren't worth $600 to them when they could get a better experience (for them) for cheaper. So they didn't buy the PS3 at $600 and complained about its price, even though Sony was selling it at a loss, and bought the Xbox 360 inteasd.
Now of course, you must think those people were being totally unreasonable, right?
