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theprof00 on 26 September 2013
Zero999 said:
theprof00 said:
Zero999 said:

bolded: sony is doing the paid online too. and I can't see a problem with an optional add on for an optional game. the thing even comes bundled with the game.

zero, you remind me of another zero who plays mafia and doesn't know a losing argument when he's saying one either.
Do I need to pull up the chart of how many games were "rented out" over the course of one year? It was massive..and filled with AAA games.

Arguing who is doing what with paid online means little to this discussion. The point he's trying to make is that Sony is gouging the customer and it's costing them. My examples were to show that "gouging practices" seem to not make a difference to the 80m people who have bought a 360. You bringing up that Sony now has paid psn requirement for ps4 does nothing to my argument. If my point is that people will pay for these additional services or products so long as the value of the console itself deems such a purchase 'smart', then you saying ps4 uses ps+ only says that people will indeed purchase a mandatory ps+ as well, seeing as how the majority have deemed the ps4 the more valuable console.

The vita cost argument sucks, the memory card price argument sucks, and the giving away free shit as incentives argument sucks.
It's all bullocks.

Sony has memory card bundles.
Sony has mega pack bundles with 10 games in it.
Sony has bundles with 2 games and a memory card.

OH IT HAZ TO BE A GUD CARD THOUGH. 64GB IS WAT IT WELL TAKE 4 KONSUMERS TO BY IT.

Surely you see the ridiculousness.

Sony is already giving away the supposed bundle that this guy was saying it needed, except it's not a 64GB card. Is it helping? NO.

How can you guys be so stubborn about this??

 

The argument is akin to 2 ice cream brands.
BRAND A has 5 flavors. Chocolate, Vanilla, strawberry, butterscotch, and coffee. It costs more than the competitor and doesn't sell even a fourth as much ice-cream.
The competitor, BRAND B, has 200 flavors, including special flavors every month for events, like jalapeno margarita during cinco de mayo. It also costs less than the other brand.

OH I NO! JUS GIB MORE ICECREAMS SCOOPES FOR BRAND A. AND FREE SPRINKLES, SPRINKERS ARE A RIPOFF, AN MAKE THE CONE TOO BIGGER OF SIZE. DTHAT WAY, FOR SAME LITTLE BIT MORE U GET 4 SCOOPS INSTED OF 2 AND SPRINKERS AND HUGE CONE. THAT WILL MAKE EBRYONE COME TO BAND A STORE FROM FAR N WIDE

sincerely, I didn't read even 10% of that post (or the one i'm quoting now). I replied to that piece of bolded part alone.

2 Sentences? Don't waste me time.

TLDR: I don't know what I'm talking about.



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Baalzamon on 27 September 2013
pokoko said:
Baalzamon said:
pokoko said:
Proprietary is always more expensive than mass market. Volume reduces manufacturing costs per unit. The more you sell, the more you can manufacture, the cheaper your bottom line.

If you wanted to start selling a line of orange juice in your region, your cost per unit would be WAY higher than, say, what Tropicana deals with. That's just the way business works. The problem with Vita memory cards is that they won't go down in manufacturing costs unless they start selling a lot of them.

Not necessarily true at all. If you are able to produce enough of it and find the right factory, you will probably be able to produce it quite cheap, actually (much cheaper, considering many costs of popular products are actually advertising...hence why in store brands are way cheaper yet still make higher margins)

What?  Of course it's more expensive per unit to manufacture a few than it is to manufacture a high amount.  How is that even a question?  The amount of Vita memory cards being made is a drop in the bucket compared to mass market brands, the per unit manufacturing cost won't even be close.  The more atypical the specialty product, the more expensive the manufacturing setup and materials costs.  Go order 100 units of a specialty product then order 10 units, see with costs the most per individual item.  It's practically impossible for Vita memory cards not to be dramatically more expensive per unit than standard models.

I'm saying if there were third parties producing them (even if it was the same amount or less), they would be able to charge drastically less than Sony does. Production cost is only a portion of the cost seen in an item.



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