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Seihyouken on 03 March 2009

This whole article reaks of BS.

1. There is absolutely no advantage to dropping the price of the console in the next 6 months. The impact of the cut would be minimalized during the slow season. Game developers aren't going to give two shits whether the PS3 is selling 50k less on average then the 360 a week especially as the relative PS3 to 360 marketshare continues to shrink smaller and smaller. Sony will need a slew of top selling software releases (espcially 1st party) to offset the inevitable losses they would recieve from dropping the price and the only time where they could sell the necessary amount is during the holiday season. By waiting until the end of the year, Sony also gets the advantage of allowing the 45nm chip revisions to happen and significantly drop the cost of manufacturing the console as well as allow other gradual cost reductions to occur.

2. Blu-ray really isn't the costly component it was back in 2006. I really don't see Sony releasing a non-blu-ray model unless they offered a attachable blu-ray component seperately, but even then, what's the point? I really don't think many gamers are going to rush to buy a PS3 that can only play PS1, PSN and 4 downloadable blu-ray PS3 games.



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Serious_frusting on 03 March 2009

I cant believe people get payed to spue this crap



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Sharky54 on 03 March 2009
numonex said:
In regards to the non Blu-Ray PS3 rumour I call BS on this.

If Sony made a huge price cut of say $100 on PS3, Sony would generate more losses on every PS3 sold. Selling more PS3 consoles would put Sony further into the red. Shareholders are not happy the way Sony is losing money at the moment.

To offset the console losses due to price cuts the PS3 game sales would have to sell much better to make up for PS3 console losses.

 

You do know that sony said they started to make a profit off of every PS3 late september/early november right? It is going to have a price cut within a few months. Mark my words.



heruamon on 03 March 2009
Spankey said:
heruamon said:
If you launch a ps3 with no brd...you're going to make ALOT of ps3 owners look stupid...

 

It would make Sony look stupid too.

What the hell will they do with all their games on the shelves that are on Blu-Ray? refund the retailers? like hell they would.

It's like saying "I heard someone whose freinds uncle works for GM and they're working on a car with a block of wood for a fuel tank. And they're removing the engines of their future models to save costs." Rediculous.

 

I'll believe this price cut nonsense when I see it.

Errrr...Sony has already gone WAY PAST looking stupid this generation...The ps2 outsold all platforms combined in the last gen, and it's STILL selling, which is a truly remarkable feat...and you follow-up with the ps3...lol...people talked about how bad Vista was after XP, but at least M$ wasn't dumb enough to put out a product that would cost it about 80% of it's market share.  so, at this point, sony is about as dumb as a box of rocks, so it's really just making the exclusive sony fans look stupid in their belief in the format...but this is just a rumor, and I doubt sony is THAT darn dumb.



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