| Rock_on_2008 said: Gamers do not care if Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo lost money. All we care about is the best price. Only the shareholders or Company owners care about whether or not the company is profitable. All price cuts are good news. If a faceless corporation makes a loss to deliver a price cut. Big deal. |
Um, what the heck are you spewing? Gamers DO care if the console makers make profits. It goes into R&D for their next console(s), and helps them plan out other things for the company. Sure us consumers want their consoles to be at an affordable price, but we do plan on the companies to make some / a lot of money so that they will make better consoles and such.
On top of that, I absolutely HATE Sony's business plan; make an expensive console with high-tech hardware, lose money on profits for awhile until the software sales pick up and they get their revenue back. Absolutely absurd and dumb of them to even think of that. They should make a console that is 'powerful' enough to play high-end software, but is affordable enough to be used and get the job done. Wow, that sounds like a console already out on the market.
What is MUCH BETTER??
Making a console that's less expensive, doesn't require raw horsepower for graphics, but the games are just as fun; then it sells out fast and the company gains profits on each console sold off the get-go.
OR, make a console that is very expensive, has a lot of horsepower and the games are just as fun; but it sells SOOO slow due to price for the 'mass-market,' games that do not expand through the mass-market (but are still fun to play but only a select group of gamers; a gaming niche) by appealing to everyone and the company loses profit on each unit sold.
I'd rather stick with the console that is cheaper to produce and sell so that it gains profit on each unit sold (even though the company didn't know it would sell like hotcakes at first!).
