scrapking said:
No worries. :) I don't share all of Spencer's assumptions, no. But I shared his perspective as an FYI. It's impossible to know what to make of the PS5 (optical drive edition) being profitable after a year or so, because we don't know how much of a loss they were taking up-front. It's a big difference if it goes from costing $525 to make down to $475, than if it goes from $600 to $400, for example. We don't know enough to draw strong conclusions from that. I remain curious why you think Microsoft made the wrong call, when this is the strongest start to a generation Microsoft has had yet. Seems like the market is embracing their decision. It's entirely possible that Sony and Microsoft *each* made the right call, as perhaps each of them made the right decision for their respective market segments and brands, in fact. COVID was a double-edged sword, increasing demand but reducing supply, so I'm not sure it had a huge net effect. As for long-term pricing, time will tell. Perhaps in several years one of us can come back to this thread and comment. However, I don't see why a PS5 slim would drop as low as $250, yet you think the Series S is only likely to drop down to $200? Can you explain why such a small delta between them? I'm skeptical of any PS5 variant dropping as low as $250. Heck, the PS4 slim's MSRP is still $299.99, and it's been over 9 years. |
X1 had a stronger start of gen than X360, so would you call that a success?
Also considering Sony had PS4 outselling PS2 aligned for a long time, and PS5 would be outselling PS4 without the shortages (and will go back to outsell it from 2023 onward by Sony projections) it doesn't seem like Sony needs to copy MS.
duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363
Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994
Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."