rocketpig on 12 July 2007
| Borkachev said: Why didn't the 20 gig sell? I proposed an answer to that in another price drop thread, and I like it so much I'm going to stick with it. It didn't sell because the people who buy consoles in the first year are the "first five million who will pay anything" crowd Sony used to talk about. |
Actually, by all reports it didn't sell because only approximately 1 out of 10 PS3s shipped at launch were 20GB models. Hard to sell many consoles when you import them in that capacity. It's rumored that Sony was avoiding importing them because the loss per unit on the console was about $80 more than the 60GB model.Â
But you're right, the initial adopters are the ones who will buy the most expensive version. But right now, if Sony had actually announced a real price drop, that 20GB version at $400 would be very appealing to people like me.
But when I walk into the store, I still see a PS3 for $500. The only difference is that this PS3 has more stuff I don't care about.
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