That...or they could have kept the bluray out of it. Add-on maybe...
And sold it for 399, even 499 form the start.

MikeB said: nordlead said: I believe Sony themselves claimed that the consumer was getting such a great deal since they should be selling it for $800. Also, the hardware price breakdowns backed this up fairly well off the start. Also, this plan is essentially a credit line so now Sony has all the overhead of managing billing people. That would make things cost a lot more, so add another $100 per system. If you thought $600 was too much off the start, $900 would be way to much. I would easily have paid 1000 Euro for a PS3. Regarding me personally, I'm sure they are well beyond the break-even point.

This is going into my sig. Thanks.

kowenicki said: @mikeb (walt) please dont try and rationalise your frankly juvenile statement that you would have willingly paid 1000 euro for a PS3.

Of course I prefer free, but the pricing wouldn't have stopped me. I paid well more for my HDTV, for example. What's a great HDTV without great content to take advantage of this?

You aren't the first to imply I'm youthfull, the best works of many philosophers were created with a youthful mind. Honestly you act a little childishly yourself. Using a bit of self reflection it can be argued we both are a bit juvenile in some people's eyes, discussing game consoles in our spare time over the internet (however IMO there's nothing wrong with this as long as it's fun and you don't lower yourself to disrespecting other people's honest opinions). Hopefully we will never get to a sad state like Ausfalcon, 38 years old and stalking people on the internet over a games console.

MikeB said: I would easily have paid 1000 Euro for a PS3.

This. BTW, your doctor just called. He told me to remind you to take your meds. Or get committed. Your choice.

MikeB said: @ Ausfalcon If you want good proft margins maybe invest in panty shields, they cost about 0,02 to 0,2 cents to produce and are being sold for many many times this amount.

The above is a perfect example of why you eventually get banned at the places you frequent IMO. 

 

Well as you are quite aware several of those times it was mentioned in response to your ongoing smear campaign that I am an Xbot.  Perhaps if you had not tried so many times to propagate that myth you would not have heard it in response each time.  Any other times I felt it was pertinent otherwise.  

You might want to be careful acting like you speak for the people on this board, because I don't think you speak for much of any of them.  But even if you did, it hardly seems it should be a problem to mention ownership in a company on a board that talks about sales of that company's equipment.

word has it that PS3 costed something over $800 to make at launch so no that wouldn't have made a profit and it also would not have sold as well.

Retailers would have never gone for this. They'd make even less off of something like that and this who cares more about the price than the customers. Remember Sony is selling it to the retailers not the customers. Retailers sell them to the customers. By doing something like that it's just too confusing and weird. I think the price they started off with was a good start and really working from their they've done a good job. It's just hard to compete with a company like MS who can take losses off a 360 like they do and not affect anything.

It's a PS3 not a car XO

@ Ausfalcon

IMO a good example why you shouldn't be a moderator. In reality I think you are more upset about other parts of that message you're replying to.

Like the post you banned me for at AW, in reply to your allegations the message you banned me for was highlighting how you joined up here to out allegations against me.



Not at all, I pointed out you are a MorphOS fan and likely you have some bad blood for me stating in public I didn't think MorphOS has enough long term commercial potential. In this regard the MorphOS team nowadays say the same and it isn't, so in reality such issues should be closed by now. That's just my opinion / perspective, I can't look into your head, but think that could explain your behaviour here and elsewhere.

Not saying their efforts have been worthless, I wish they could and would donate the sources to the AROS project.

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