| megaman79 said: Look all that matters is Sony is better than MS. Thats all that matters |
lolll. I megaman2 approve of this message
The Wii's price point is a big part of it's success but the most important factor is the Wii's ability to apeal to various demographics ( demographics which happen to include and be bigger than the tradional gamer).
Price point is like a barrier to the product so the higher the price point is the bigger the barrier becomes , the barrier for the Wii is really low but that doesn't matter as much because it has experienced strong demand from the start.
In my personal opinion the PS3 barrier was too high for the consumer to make the leap regardless of how much they wanted too , even the Wii wouldn't have survived a $600 price point.
Edit : answering "If" questions is fruitless because most of the time it ends in flames.
| trestres said: Lol ROFL!!!!!!!!! Q1) PS3 at 200 dollars in Japan, 250 in the rest of the world? LOL, it's incredible how blind fanboyism is corrupting a lot of people. This isn't even a possibility for the next 3 years I'd say, do you have an idea of the financial hit that Sony would have taken. Plus I think the Wii would have sold more anyways. |
I agree
also that question is like saying
Would a Ferrari sell more than a Honda Civic if it was priced the same
BAsically there is no point to the question
Sony gambled and I think it paid off.
If they would have released the system early it would have had hardware issues like the 360, and probobly no blu ray drive.
The Wii appeals to casual and younger players, so they still would have lost that market.
I think Sony learned alot this generation about the importance of PRICE, LAUNCH GAMES, PSN, and RUMBLE. They also won the HD format war, which will help them with the next generation of consoles.
Price doesn't matter. When r u going to understand that. If priced identically with identical motion sensing controllers then, even then i think Nintendo's experience and built in audience would have given then the same market share advantage.
With the controllers both have now? Take a guess, no one cares about PS3 controllers.
PS3 is too expensive, the BR was a bad idea and even with that extra year how much would Sony have dropped the price? not much im guessing due to there being no competing next gen system and the manufacturing cost.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
I think this thread sums up everything you're trying to say just fine (links to all the stories in the actual thread).
The Sony Disappointment Timelinel
Right on! Get me my bingo board.
Sony PS3 wouldn't be a Sony PS3, if they had done everything you're saying. What caused Sony PS3 delays, was a miscalculation considering the tech when they started to build the hardware, ie Sony propably thought the tech would have been ready by then. Sony was aiming the Sony PS3 launch to 2005, but Blu-Ray and Cell weren't ready by then. So instead of Sony PS3, we would have Sony PS2,5 (although, that would have been more profitable for Sony).
As for the price, Sony PS3 would propably had sold better, if it had been cheaper, since price doesn't work as a factor that gets people buy the product, but it can work as a factor that turns people off from it. Besides, again, if Sony PS3 would have been cheaper, it wouldn't be the Sony PS3 as we know it.
As for what drives Wii sales, go back to 2006 and look at the lines, people were waiting in line for hours to get to try the Wii, while lines for the Sony PS3 were just some minutes, and the price to play both were the same (or actually bigger for Wii, since you had to invest so much time for waiting for a hands-on).
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Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
Theres a lot of things that you say that they should have done but couldn't. For example if they were going to get to the market first, would their box still be the same? Would there be a difference in the format war and would they have had Blue Ray?
You wanted them to sell their hardware at a profit right out of the gate. Well lets see they would either have to A: Take a lot of the features out to reduce production costs. Original productions costs were projected at 800+ USD so thats a lot of cutting to do. Or they could do B: Wait a couple of years and keep coasting along with the PS2 which wouldnt be a good idea IMO.
Now your 2 "what if" statements.
Q1: That would depend on what features your PS3 had. If it had the same features as it does now but was priced at 250 it would probably sell more but at the same time we could say goodbye to Sony's warchest and possibly the company. A 550 USD loss (at least) per console would bankrupt the company if they kept up with demand. And lets face it who wouldn't buy a 250 USD PS3 2 years ago? The point is the Wii and PS3 would have never launched at the same price and they never will be at the same price when sales for this gen are at any moment of importance.
Q2: What expense of the PS3s features would happen if it did release 1 year earlier than the 360? And are you assuming that the PS3 released in 2005 and the 360 released in 2006 or....?
This entire post is littered with what ifs that make each other pointless and unachievable. IDK wth you were thinking when you wrote this but logic is absent from it. It sounds more like an opportunity to troll the RROD (which that paragraph has a lot of flaws in it as well) than it is to promote any type of logical discussion. The PS3 is doing fine now, the past is over.
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Accually, sony said that the PS3 launch sold more PS3 in that day then the PS2 launch.
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