27th March 2007, 9:39 PM
Unless they lower prices, they're playing right into Sony's hands... sure, the $500 PS3 is impossible to find, but Sony can advertise about it anyway, and say:
"For $20 more, you get Wi-Fi, Blu-Ray, and FREE internet play! Compare that to $100 for Wi-Fi, $200 for HD-DVD (which, of course, is infinitely worse than our Blu-Ray), and $70 first year plus $50 a year after that for internet with the X360!"
Sure, you get 100GB more HDD space with the 360, but you can just add in a larger harddrive into the PS3, something Microsoft doesn't let you do easily... really, this makes no sense. They've already got some hidden pricing problems, as I've said before, but raising your price makes them much more obvious, and worse... they still do have a sticker price advantage, and $300 and $400 models, but people always look at the price of the top-price model first. Just look at how everyone says "The 360 is $400" and "The PS3 is $600"...
Not to mention, of course, that until they (and Sony) lower their prices, they won't get anywhere near the sales Nintendo is seeing wtih the Wii. Even with a lower price they still might not, but they can't even TRY until they lower the price.
"For $20 more, you get Wi-Fi, Blu-Ray, and FREE internet play! Compare that to $100 for Wi-Fi, $200 for HD-DVD (which, of course, is infinitely worse than our Blu-Ray), and $70 first year plus $50 a year after that for internet with the X360!"
Sure, you get 100GB more HDD space with the 360, but you can just add in a larger harddrive into the PS3, something Microsoft doesn't let you do easily... really, this makes no sense. They've already got some hidden pricing problems, as I've said before, but raising your price makes them much more obvious, and worse... they still do have a sticker price advantage, and $300 and $400 models, but people always look at the price of the top-price model first. Just look at how everyone says "The 360 is $400" and "The PS3 is $600"...
Not to mention, of course, that until they (and Sony) lower their prices, they won't get anywhere near the sales Nintendo is seeing wtih the Wii. Even with a lower price they still might not, but they can't even TRY until they lower the price.
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