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curl-6 on 17 April 2025
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EricHiggin said:
curl-6 said:

Based on your reasoning, why didn't Sony release the PS5 at $400 for the base system like the PS4, instead of $500 as they did?

Sony chose the PS5 price point that would make them the most money, and Nintendo chose the Switch 2 price point that would make them the most money. All companies do whatever will make them the most money.

I mean, what's your argument here, that Sony are some kind of altruistic entity that care about us and lose money for our benefit out of the goodness of their hearts?

Even Sony's PS3 losses were a calculated sacrifice to help push Blu Ray and the long term goal of dominating the console space.

Nope. Why does SNY keep increasing prices, including PS5? If $499 was the magic number, you apparently can't charge more, or less, right?

Not SNY, are you crazy? MS and XB are clearly the most charitable................  jk. They're just comparisons. Competition tends to be a good thing.

So you're saying Nin should follow PS3 and take a $250 loss or more on SW2 hardware to take market share and dominate the industry? Personally PS3 seemed like mostly poor calculations and a lot of bad idea's that SNY ended up paying for and had to dig themselves out of.

They increased the price because they realized they could make more than they initially thought. Inflation too.

Switch 2 and PS3 are in completely different situations; Nintendo isn't trying to push a format like PS3 was with Blu Ray, and they're selling on portability rather than pushing high end power.

There were absolutely poor calculations involved with the PS3, but they decided to take those losses because they thought it would be worth it in the long run.