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Forums - Sales Discussion - Sony blew it with 40 gb sku (IMO). Sales predictions.

konnichiwa on 06 October 2007
vanguardian1 said:
No backwards compatibility = no sale from me, even when/if the cheap version hits $200.

 True.

On the European forums where I am a member no one wants to buy the PS3 anymore and I am talking about the Playstation forums.






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FishyJoe on 06 October 2007

IMO, it isn't worth all the negative publicity this is generating just to save a couple million bucks. They would have generated so much more good publicity if they had just made it a fully featured unit.



omgwtfbbq on 06 October 2007

the 20GB model was $100 cheaper and it was much less gimped than this one. We all know what happened to that one. I expect epic fail with the 40GB.

the price drop on the 60GB model will be all the sales.



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FishyJoe on 06 October 2007

Here's an interesting stat. On PS3forums, over 80% of the people have used the PS2 BC. That's a lot higher than I expected.

http://ps3forums.com/showthread.php?t=102588



Lost tears of Kain on 06 October 2007
Harvey Birdman said:
@FishyJoe

You can say the same about the people bitching like fifth graders about backwards compatibility.

yea well when i buy my ps3 i sure as hell want BC because my danm ps2 of course is having epic disc read error problems at the moment, and ive cleaned it more times then i can count

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hunter_alien on 06 October 2007

It will help ... Im not shure how much , but it will . To ba dthat there is no BC though :(



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Globox on 06 October 2007
Wojtas said:

I said it once, i'll say it again(and if i didn't say it before, well now's the time to listen) Sony just loves to shoot themselves in the foot, the hand, hell if this sku charade continues, they'll shoot themselves in the head before we notice it. I have a really hard time imagining the consequences of Sony's actions.

 

From where i stand, it looks like this: The 40gb was not announced for the US, nor Japan (correct me if i'm wrong please), only for Europe. Thus this new sku introduction won't have any major influence on the first two regions. Unfortunately for Sony, there is a slight chance that sales will actually go down a bit as people will wait for the new SKU to reach their continents. In Europe...i don't know what'll happen. BC is important here. Period. Bundle packs might do the trick IF they'll seem reasonable and if more AA, AAA titles come out. HD is a long ways off so i doubt that people will start buying "cheap blue ray players a.k.a. PS3. 400 euros for a gaming device is a lot....ARRRGHHH I JUST DON'T KNOW ANYMORE!!!! (Puff..Puff, wheeze...ahhh my poor heart..)

What say ye, fellow gaming addicts? What're your thoughts on sales with this one?


 Pufff.....lets say 3k a month.



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darthdevidem on 06 October 2007

the 20GB failed because of NO WI-FI!

No WIFI is MUCH worse than no BC

I wouldn't be playing online today if I had the 20GB



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tombi123 on 06 October 2007

Its only the hardcore gamers that care so much about BC, most gamers dont play their 5 year old games on their new console.



super_etecoon on 06 October 2007
darthdevidem said:
the 20GB failed because of NO WI-FI!

No WIFI is MUCH worse than no BC

I wouldn't be playing online today if I had the 20GB

 No BC is worse than no Wi-Fi...because it basically turns its back on the previous generation.  But I think this thread is supposed to be about sales predictions...we already have a "The 40 gig sux/ You guys are Ninty/MSFanbois" thread elsewhere.

I expect a limited PS3 boost, but only because of uninformed  customers or Blu-Ray lovers.  My opinion about the Blu-Ray adopters, however, is that early adopters don't care how much they pay for new technology.  So I'm not sure that lowering the price will net a significant boost for people who have been waiting on the fence.