Geoffrey Sperl, I could not agree with you more. I was thinking exactly along those lines yesterday.
When the PS3 was being released last year, it had the potential to continue dominance in the videogame market. If they were sitting at the top of the sale charts now like they could have, then Bluray would be the Hi-Def format. The movie division of Sony should have gotten the videogame division to lower the PS3's price to $400.00 from the start, and they would have had a chance of being the market leader in both videogames AND movies. Instead, Playstation has floundered in last place in the market and the Hi-Def format war continues. At this point, since the Xbox360 has already dropped in price and they've now gotten a rep in the past year as not being the best choice, they actually need to drop the PS3 price to $300.00 to be able to take the lead. Instead, they're going to release a stripped down $400.00 version and maybe drop the 80GB version to $500.00. Someone needs to wake them up. The consoles may have a 10 year life cycle like they say, but if Sony wants Bluray to be the Hi-Def format of choice, they need to get people to buy the players. The PS3 has an advantage as a Bluray player in that if i buy one, even if HD-DVD wins the format war, I still have a game console. If I buy an HD-DVD player and Bluray wins, all I have is an HD-DVD player for the losing format. Risk is less with PS3, but price is too high. Drop the price to $300.00 and watch both the games and movies division take off. They won't, but they need to. Oh well.
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Calviin @ Oct 4th 2007 12:25PM
Geoffrey Sperl, I could not agree with you more. I was thinking exactly along those lines yesterday.
When the PS3 was being released last year, it had the potential to continue dominance in the videogame market. If they were sitting at the top of the sale charts now like they could have, then Bluray would be the Hi-Def format. The movie division of Sony should have gotten the videogame division to lower the PS3's price to $400.00 from the start, and they would have had a chance of being the market leader in both videogames AND movies. Instead, Playstation has floundered in last place in the market and the Hi-Def format war continues. At this point, since the Xbox360 has already dropped in price and they've now gotten a rep in the past year as not being the best choice, they actually need to drop the PS3 price to $300.00 to be able to take the lead. Instead, they're going to release a stripped down $400.00 version and maybe drop the 80GB version to $500.00. Someone needs to wake them up. The consoles may have a 10 year life cycle like they say, but if Sony wants Bluray to be the Hi-Def format of choice, they need to get people to buy the players. The PS3 has an advantage as a Bluray player in that if i buy one, even if HD-DVD wins the format war, I still have a game console. If I buy an HD-DVD player and Bluray wins, all I have is an HD-DVD player for the losing format. Risk is less with PS3, but price is too high. Drop the price to $300.00 and watch both the games and movies division take off. They won't, but they need to. Oh well.