Look, most of us want a PS3 price cut because we think it's too expensive when compared to its competition. But others may want a lower price so that Sony can see even greater success with its flagship system, which may equal more successes for their companies.
Take EA's Redwood Shores (Dead Space, baby!) general manager Glen Schofield. He doesn't come right out and say it, but you know what he's getting at.
"I'm really not sure what's going on with Sony," he said. "They've been such a great, great partner and PlayStation 2 being such a great machine that, God, I hope they get out of this and they figure it out and they're around for a long time."
We do too, Glen. When I look at my game shelves and see the huge collection of really great PS2 and PS1 software, it gives me hope for a similar collection of PS3 games.
Schofield adds that: "You know, I can't tell them what to do. I don't know their finances."
Well, I know some of their finances, and things aren't great. Maybe a price drop would help?
[Via GamesIndustry]
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10:20 AM on 03.03.2009
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(too bad I can't say the same for the newer ones without backwards compatibility)
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Just keep it as it is and when next-gen comes give it a new shell, claim a larger install base than the next-gen concurrence and give it a nice price drop (to 250$) to bump it up.
A price drop now will have the same effect as a the price drops on the GameCube.
wat.
Sony's a prideful company and I doubt they want to "lose" the console wars any more than their fans do, but market share and bank accounts are two very different things. Sony can't afford to "win" the console war at a cost of another billion or two in losses. No, "making up for it with games sold" doesn't work when you're talking about having to make up triple digits on every single console years after release.
This ship has sailed. (I like my ps3, but Sony severely misread the macroeconomic picture starting in 2007.)
I'm not so sure about this silvain. Their sales figures are in the same general ballpark as the 360 (even if they are less) when their console costs twice as much.
Considering the PS2 sold 140+ million consoles (and the Xbox 360 has, to date, moved only about 25 million), this war is far from over. A simple PS3 price drop could change the course of this console generation drastically.