JRPGfan said: PS4 #33..... I think Sony needs to do something soon. |
Lol, this alarmism is great. Sont didn't react to the Great Pseudo-Temporary Xbox Holiday Pricecut of 2014. And it turned out they didn't need to.
Sony might cut the price with PSVR, either as standalone or bundle (e.g. 700-800 for PS4+ camera,move,VR worlds and headset bunduru), the holiday season or to coincide with the Neo release. If the first two won't happen, the third will. We can look at Sony's IR slides to see that relative to expected PS4 HW sales, revenue isn't going up that much, especially if you consider PSVR money sales and the general increase of software as the active install base increases. In fact those things considered makes me doubt Neo is for this financial year. You'd expect a 399 $/€ Neo this holidays to contribute a lot to revenue (though like the XB1S not as in software sales as OG PS4s are replaced).
(For people that don't know, Sony only expects a 8.3% revenue increase despite expecting a 2.3m increase in PS4 sales (partly offset by the 350 price counting the entire fiscal year this time, rather than just the much bigger half of FY15), the PSVR launch, an increased active install base even without PS4 sales increase, and lastly the general trend of PSN sales/services, which has a much better profit margin than physical game sales.)