it's the tune dude, it's completely addicting

He probably doesn't. He just walks into his home theatre that's also one giant bed full of supermodels and $100 bills and rolls around for awhile.

His insurance to cover the occasional crushed supermodel is probably a bitch to pay every month, though.

He's setting up the NGP for a higher price point. They are setting up the expectations so when a $350 or $400 price is mentioned people are not as surprised as they were with the $600 PS3.

Granted, the PS3 is not a bad platform and its price was necessary for its features. But, had they began with a feature set more like the slim model (only larger) they could have potentially had a $500 system with similar features and been better out the gate.

In the end though, price is a very important piece of the puzzle, but more than anything else, content is king.

Kinect = $150, fastest selling product

Ipad = from $500 to 800, sold 15 million last year. 

Price means nothing as long you give the consumers value

Thats what I said...

Sony inability to keep price under control at lauch = necessary to make statemtns like this

However it turns out it wasn't related to this topic at all.

$60 for a 2 hour movie? What the fuck over priced theater did you go to buddy?

but they HAD to launch the ps3 at the price that is was to even get to the smaller slim.  It's not like they had the sim model and the phat model both at launch and decided to go with the phat one, your point would have had a little bit of breaings if that was the case but you and I both know that wasn't the case.

that and.....that aint what you said but we won't get into that again

Look at Kinect? You mean that gaming peripheral that launched for a fraction of PS3's launch price?

Consumers don't seem to mind buying relatively expensive accessories down the road, but the core console needs to be reasonably priced. That's been the key to the 360's success. They haven't had to cut the console price much because it was reasonably priced since launch.

In my opinion, it seems hype and price are crucial for having a successful console. Sony had the hype, but they didn't have the price this gen.

That's not what I or others said.

The slim model has a lot less hardware than just being smaller. All of those removed connections and software reduces the cost of the model. So, in theory, the phat model could have had enough hardware/software removed to match the features of the slim model and thus coudl have started off at a lower price while still giving Sony the amount of loss per console, yet they could have sold more consoles early, thus generating bigger base and potentially far more software sales which in reality could have actually reduced their losses in the first few years.

3D Movie at IMAX with an assortment of food and drinks adds up.......