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Galaki on 17 January 2009
misterd said:
Galaki said:
misterd said:

Unless winged kittens crawl out of my anus, I have to disagree with your hypothesis.

It must be painful.

I'll let you know.

 

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colonelstubbs on 17 January 2009

Sony will come back, but not back enough



I hope my 360 doesn't RRoD
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RPG on 17 January 2009
NJ5 said:
RPG said:
NJ5 said:
RPG said:

 

Any simple minded person would think that, tis' the reason why 99% of people on this forum would run a business to the ground in days. Big businesses have to think out the box, it is the reason why they end up having thousands of people working for them. $100 price cut brings more PS3's into homes thus more software sales, people forget that console companies make most of their money from software sales. ;)

In that case, why not just do $100 price cuts every day until the price is $0?

Let's not be simplistic here...

 

What a darn retarded statement you made there, I mean really come on.......:/

 

 

I just took your own argument to its logical conclusion, so you're really calling yourself retarded.

More to the point, you have to prove that the $100 price cut this year would help Sony's profits rather than hurt them.

 

 

No buddy cant say you did bring my logical arguement to it's logical conclusion, me saying a $100 loss means more profit at the end does not have the logical conclusion of making the console $0. You are one of those who think very low level, really sad actually. :(

I cannot prove a $100 price cut will help Sony rather then hurt them, I do not have the numbers but what I do know is that software sales would easily make up for that $100. Especially with development costs coming down for the console and huge games coming, it would not actually be a gamble at all rather then a logical choice.



 

NJ5 on 17 January 2009

@RPG: If the $0 part is the one you have a problem with, I can rewrite the post like this:

In that case, why not just do $100 price cuts every day until the price is $100?

Let's not be simplistic here..

It's the same thing... The point is that a price cut doesn't necessarily bring enough added software sales to make it a good decision, profitability-wise.

I am not thinking low-level as you say, you're the one who's being fallacious. I hope you understand your mistake by now.

 



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jcp234 on 17 January 2009
RPG said:
misterd said:
The_God_of_War said:
I know so many PS3 fans say this but a big price cut, GT 5, FF13 in Japan, GOW 3 etc, could result in a comeback of sorts.

With the losses Sony faces for this past year, though, it is debatable whether they can still afford a price cut any time soon (which I would define as the next 9 months).

 

 

Any simple minded person would think that, tis' the reason why 99% of people on this forum would run a business to the ground in days. Big businesses have to think out the box, it is the reason why they end up having thousands of people working for them. $100 price cut brings more PS3's into homes thus more software sales, people forget that console companies make most of their money from software sales. ;)

 

 I work in corporate America and let me be the first to tell you that you're giving the suits way too much credit.

Usually this "thinking outside the box" results in unethical, illogical and/or irresponsible business decisions. For example, Enron, 360 RROD, Sony's misguided management/strategic postion in the market, and the most recent offense, the global economic collapse as a result of decisions made by the world's financial institutions, especially in the US.

Usually, good business decisions are common sense, but some companies are good at thinking outside of the box...Apple, Google, Nintendo, and a few others...Sony is not one of those companies.

Sony has made a host of bad decisions/PR blunders with regards to the PS3...I am pretty sure Sony doesn't want to add -enterng a price war with Microsoft and Nintendo- to the list.



I'm not a fanboy, I just try to tip the balance in favor of logic and common sense.

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radha on 17 January 2009

the problem is that the ps3 need to be $200 and thats will take 2 years or more and by that time the competition will be cheaper or have had launch a new console



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libellule on 17 January 2009
darthdevidem01 said:
@libellule

puh-lease

without bundles Forza 2 would've been unable to outsell GT 5 Prologue

 

 but GT5p was also bundled



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coolestguyever on 17 January 2009

As long as it has third party support I don't care if PS3 stops selling at 22 million. As long as it does better than the Gamecube, I'm happy.



darthdevidem01 on 17 January 2009
libellule said:
darthdevidem01 said:
@libellule

puh-lease

without bundles Forza 2 would've been unable to outsell GT 5 Prologue

 

 but GT5p was also bundled

Forza 2 was bundled like kung fu panda was this year.....IN THE HOLIDAYS with every 360 in NA!!!

GT 5 Prolouge didn't have such bundling at all!

 



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puffy on 17 January 2009

Ok before we have a new species of brown winged kittens let me clarify my 'anything is possible' hypothesis.

If Sony doesn't gain momentum back this year they're screwed

If they do then they can possibly pass the 360

I'd give it odds of probably.. 30:1 if they get momentum this year to happen but hey its possible people find out that money actually does grow on trees in the not too distant future