I'd agree that almost everything Sony makes is overpriced, but as a business model it does work because profit margins are much higher. You can look at every product they make and find that you pay more for the name then you would another company’s product for the same features.
Play station 3 (to some extent), Point and Shoot cameras, memory cards, computers, cell phones, music players, etc. I personally often find the increase to be worth it, but not always. Since they aren’t trying to become as large as cannon or Nikon they really don't have any reason to reduce prices if they are currently profiting.
P.S. While Sony's lenses and DSRL are extensive, I find them to be create products and if I was in the market I would be very tempted to shell out the extra cash to pick one up over its competitors. You can look at other premium brands (Apple anyone?) They charge far more for their products then competitors yet they are growing at a disturbing rate. Sony uses the same system and when the economy is up, it works, when its down, sometimes it doesn’t.
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I'd agree that almost everything Sony makes is overpriced, but as a business model it does work because profit margins are much higher. You can look at every product they make and find that you pay more for the name then you would another company’s product for the same features.
Play station 3 (to some extent), Point and Shoot cameras, memory cards, computers, cell phones, music players, etc. I personally often find the increase to be worth it, but not always. Since they aren’t trying to become as large as cannon or Nikon they really don't have any reason to reduce prices if they are currently profiting.
P.S. While Sony's lenses and DSRL are extensive, I find them to be create products and if I was in the market I would be very tempted to shell out the extra cash to pick one up over its competitors. You can look at other premium brands (Apple anyone?) They charge far more for their products then competitors yet they are growing at a disturbing rate. Sony uses the same system and when the economy is up, it works, when its down, sometimes it doesn’t.