Comment Re:You're forgetting something... (Score 1) 441
I think microsoft has done exactly what Sony is doing now - tried to run an economic model that is based incorrectly. Sony has had issues adjusting to the American market, Microsoft has had issues adjusting to the Japanese market.
My point had nothing to do with Sony acting like a video game monopoly or not, or whether they're slamming things down people's throats. My only point was that the PS3 (by my estimation) will not bomb because people are focusing entirely on the American market - which is secretly not the only market in existence.
Also an 'exorbitant' price such as $500 to $600 is not exorbitant. Maybe if the cost was $300 per console - but if you think about how much the console costs, it's not exorbitant. If they're selling it for a loss of $300 per each console, that's not high pricing, that seems like a good deal to me, for the hardware at least. While you may have a point in saying that they shouldn't be pushing Blu-Ray, it IS ahead of its time - the disc size is substantially larger than DVD-HD. Regardless of whether that becomes the new standard for movies, that's the disc I want for games. Sony designed the PS3 to be excactly what people are saying here - losses for the first several years. But the lifetime of the PS3 will be longer than that of the XBox 360 because it is 'technically superior', and has been designed 'ahead of its time' so 10 years down the road (i.e. psx vs N64 vs Dreamcast) it will be more viable than the XBox 360.
The XBox may be technically superior for specifications, but it had a LOT of issues early on with crashing and faulty components. That's not technically superior overall in my eyes. Or the eyes of Japanese consumers and game producers.
I want to get a PS3, but I'll wait a couple of years until the components get cheap enough and I can buy one for cheap.
My point had nothing to do with Sony acting like a video game monopoly or not, or whether they're slamming things down people's throats. My only point was that the PS3 (by my estimation) will not bomb because people are focusing entirely on the American market - which is secretly not the only market in existence.
Also an 'exorbitant' price such as $500 to $600 is not exorbitant. Maybe if the cost was $300 per console - but if you think about how much the console costs, it's not exorbitant. If they're selling it for a loss of $300 per each console, that's not high pricing, that seems like a good deal to me, for the hardware at least. While you may have a point in saying that they shouldn't be pushing Blu-Ray, it IS ahead of its time - the disc size is substantially larger than DVD-HD. Regardless of whether that becomes the new standard for movies, that's the disc I want for games. Sony designed the PS3 to be excactly what people are saying here - losses for the first several years. But the lifetime of the PS3 will be longer than that of the XBox 360 because it is 'technically superior', and has been designed 'ahead of its time' so 10 years down the road (i.e. psx vs N64 vs Dreamcast) it will be more viable than the XBox 360.
The XBox may be technically superior for specifications, but it had a LOT of issues early on with crashing and faulty components. That's not technically superior overall in my eyes. Or the eyes of Japanese consumers and game producers.
I want to get a PS3, but I'll wait a couple of years until the components get cheap enough and I can buy one for cheap.
