Black Friday: 1 Tb BF PlayStation 4 sells out before Friday at every retailer?!

[DonFerrari]

torok said:

DonFerrari said:

I agree that Ken made mistakes on PS3, but the take time to use the power isn't really an excuse if you consider that PS1 and PS2 also weren't simple to dev for. Only at PS4 Sony concerned with making the HW straight and easy.

Anyway... besides PS3 being faster to drop in price, PS1 and PS2 also dropped faster than PS4 (and keep in mind that the regular price is still 299).

Ken made basically a similar mistake with the other consoles, but it only backfired in the 3rd attempt. Also, in the last 2 times the complicated designed did not resulted in an increased cost for the console itself, so PS3 had one extra issue.

Indeed, the PS4 still is a bit pricey (not so much if we factor in inflation). Maybe it is the high demand coupled with the new politics on console pricing (no more razer blade strategy).

I would have to agree that only on the 3rd time it bite him in the butt... but If I'm not wrong using CD player capability added some cost to PS1 and certainly the DVD drive of PS2 added cost (but both saw more benefits to sales).

I don't think it's pricey, but sure it doesn't follow previous strategy of price drop. Until 2016 we knew that if they dropped the price they wouldn't be able to keep with demand at a reasonable cost... perhaps for 2018 they can do it at 199 level.