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Forums - Gaming - If the PS4 was $250 at launch...

How much do you think it would have sold by now? Would it be heavily outpacing the Wii? I think it definitely would be because it was almost doing that a few months ago at $400 compared to the Wii's $250 price. I think it would be at 21,000,000 with supply constraints. How about you?

EDIT: Yeah I know Sony would be dead, but if Sony was rich and they were cool with taking a big loss (sounds dumb, but it's hypothetical)



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None - The world would of imploded at launch.



Seriously though, I agree with you. It wouldn't of sold much more because of manufacturing speed.



Ummmm....It would have outsold the Wii until SCEA was disbanded for being a huge money guzzling pit




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probably around 5M. after the first 5M sony would have inccurred at least a billion in debt and have gone out of business.



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1 BILLION :P

who knows... maybe 10 million more? or maybe just 7 million more.



It would have sold so well that it may have made the CEO smile on the way to file bankruptcy for bleeding so much money on a system that sells at a pretty extreme loss.



I think it would have PS4 shortages even up to today if it was $250



King of a weird hypothetical, as a $250 ps4 probably wouldn't be anything like the $400 ps4 we have now. The wii came out that cheap because it incredibly underpowered, roughly the same as the GameCube. So assuming the same for the Sony, a $250 ps4 would be roughly the same as a PS3. If that was the case, and it didn't have a hook like the wii with motion controls, honestly I think it would have flopped...



Probably would have been out of stock to this day



                  

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