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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

the wii ship date and few more waysc sonny will screw its self all this and more in this link

8 Comments:

  • At 5:30 AM, Blogger Third said…

    i don't agree that Sony's screwing themselves, but i know better than to try and convince a gamer of that.

     
  • At 8:24 AM, Blogger Duckmu said…

    I don't really see the part where Sony screws itself in that article. They're only shipping 400,000? I'd say that's the opposite of screwing themselves if they don't think it's going to sell so well. Why ship more consoles if they aren't going to sell?

    Quack Quack ~Emu Sound~
    P.S. I'm not saying they won't sell, but that seems to be the general feel from the gaming world.

     
  • At 11:44 AM, Blogger John Ostermiller said…

    I can understand the thought that "Oh, they're going to piss off gamers even more and they'll by a Wii or 360 since they're wont be enough PS3's" ... however, I believe Sony has done this in the past, has it not? Really limit the number of units available to whip up a huge fervor for the console??

     
  • At 12:05 PM, Blogger Duckmu said…

    Sony's not the only one to do this. It's a great business stragety. What's going to make people want this item more than a shortage? "What, you're out of PS3's? They must be awesome. I'd like to order 10." I believe the XBOX 360 went something like this as well? (though it may not have been on purpose, but we never know...)


    Quack Quack ~Emu Sound~

     
  • At 2:56 PM, Blogger Third said…

    Not only that, but Lenny and i already discussed: video game manufacturers don't make their big money on the systems, they make them because for every expensive-to-design-and-manufacture $250 system, most users will buy at least that much again in (pennies a disc) games and (cheap plastic and silicon) peripherals during the system's lifetime.
    Furthermore, it's not like this is going to turn the tide of gamers on anything. Let's face it, long before Sony said "Well, we're only putting out 400,000." every gamer who was going to buy a new system already knew which one they were going to get. If they want one of the PS3's, they'll make sure they get one. Sony has a whole lot more to lose by letting those units (which don't turn a profit, as i've been told) sit on shelves unsold. They'll save the overproduction for those games, which cost as much to make as their packaging.

     
  • At 5:24 PM, Blogger Lenny said…

    I would like to point out that while the physical component of a videogame does in fact cost about as much as its packaging the actual cost of making a videogame (programming, design, modeling etc.) is quite expensive, especially when you consider the technological standards of the current and soon to be current generation of consoles. As for making so few consoles Chase is quite correct; Sony is not the only company to engage in this business practice, which has been proven to be successful in the past.
    As for the controversy about the profit margins of the next generation of consoles, Microsoft and Sony subsidizing their console is actaully a good idea for them considering that their consoles are more expensive than any major console before and forcing the price up any higher is a risk especially for the PS3. Subsidizing is not a good idea for Nintendo however because their console is far cheaper than its competitors and is more in line with the launch price of consoles in the past. More importantly, Nintendo is a company that is exclusively in the videogame business and therefore needs to turn a profit on its console because it doesn't have the resources of Sony or Microsoft. At any rate I don't think Sony will have trouble moving their product, plenty of people are willing to shell out $600+ to continue playing Metal Gear Solid, GTA, Final Fantasy and of course the latest rehash of Dynasty Warriors just like I'll be shelling out $250+ to play the next Mario, Zelda, and Smash Brothers games.

     
  • At 6:41 PM, Blogger Third said…

    While it's appreciated that making a video game costs money, even a video game with a high budget (i used 3 million dollars as my theoretical budget), selling for 40 dollars a pop, shows that they have to sell only 75,000 to begin making profit. That may sound like a lot, but when you figure that there are 33 million people in California alone, even if only one in 450 buys one, that means they can make a profit just in our state. We know for a fact that the number of people in California who own more than one console, much less a single one, is almost certainly better than one in 450. The sheer volume that these companies deal in is not something that comes easily to most people's minds.

     
  • At 2:10 AM, Blogger 23r0 said…

    will my thing is as fiar as my impreesion of the PS 3gos sonny seems to be selling the has HD blueray player and not a gameig system and what i should of siad insed is that there add burn to the costmer but then again wahat elsh is new im thinking it might be time for me to sit out the whole game system thing and start working on my art all instead of ranting like a rabit fan boy for something im kinda loseing insters in ( read my wallit odont think soo )

    oh and form what im heard both the 360 and the pS 3 are / will be sold at a lose just to get the instller base going

    oh and let the rrecorrd show that im will spend the mony for a new system on compuer parts OKthinx bye

     

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