too bad the slim looks like crap. Worst kept secret and worst design ever by sony.
Is the way the console looks these days that important!?!?
I thought most people would base their purchase/choice of console on the capabilites!?
Is the way the console looks these days that important!?!?
I thought most people would base their purchase/choice of console on the capabilites!?
offcourse, if it looks cheap it probably is cheap. You cannot go from 750AU costs of building one to something significantly lower without some kind of trade off.
Considering how much the price drop will be it makes you wonder.
Do you honestly believe that Sony would compromise what ever market share they have by releasing a dud "2nd Gen" console!?!
Its also got a bigger HD, I though that would have counted more towards the things selling good or bad then the way it looked.....
but thats the thing recently they claimed it cost them to make a PS3 for 750AU. so they where lossing $50au on it here.
If it's going to drop $200 there has to be something missing or of lower quality. You can't just instantly drop production costs over night by $200 or more so that they are making a profit.
id guess it works like this: after 5 + years, sales are starting to dwindle for PS3's, so sony are dropping costs. they still make 90% of their profit from game sales, so if they make a little less profit from console sales it wont break them. and of course, the smaller units are using less parts so they can drop the price that way too.
the slim line PS2 worked just as well as the original (the only difference being the lack of a huge fan in the slimline, which doesnt matter unless your leaving it on for 12 hours) so i wouldnt be worried about it being an inferior version.
No No the point being they have not made any profit from selling PS3. Every console is sold at a loss. They have lost all the profit they have made from PS2 game sales. They had to sell assets in order to stay even.
I know eventually game sales will help them but in the short term if they are still loosing money after 3 years of production what will a further price drop mean to them if they haven't sacrificed anything in it.
No No the point being they have not made any profit from selling PS3. Every console is sold at a loss. They have lost all the profit they have made from PS2 game sales. They had to sell assets in order to stay even.
I know eventually game sales will help them but in the short term if they are still loosing money after 3 years of production what will a further price drop mean to them if they haven't sacrificed anything in it.
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