Suggestion to Sony for Affordable and Successful PS3...

• PS3 with $399 price tag. How? By doing the following things:

1. Stripping it down to the bare bones. No need for giant hard drive, include a 1GB one instead and have compatibility w/ external USBs and hard drives for more memory.
2. Finding cheaper manufacturers for Blu Ray for the skeleton version. This may mean lower quality, but not as low as the Wii and near 360 quality. For premium graphics get the 20 or 60 gig ones.
3. Delete MP3 playback and storage. Who honestly needs it? Most play their MP3s off their PCs/Macs or their iPods. Have a compatibility w/ MP3 players for playback in-game.
4. Make the cases out of cheaper material. No gloss and semi-shiny plastic instead of expensive metal.
5. Remove the slot loading drive and replace it w/ an option to put the disc directly on top, like the PS2 Slimline.
6. Have fewer USB ports and card readers.

For other pointers to sell, it should:

1.  Have more exclusive and better games, both 1st and 3rd party.
2. Introduce the greatest hits section for abot $30-35 a game.
3. Introduce some budget games for gamers tight on cash but want a new game.
4. Have a better ad campaign. The laughing baby was creepy and made no sense.
5. Appeal to a wider audience, like little kids, middle aged people and people in between. How? Follow the Wii strategy. Release Crash Bandicoot and Spyro games. Make a new kid friendly franchise. Make a new party game franchise (Xbox has Fuzion Frenzy and the Wii has...Mario Party (it sucks, but sells)).
6. Cheaper controllers and accessories.

Comments?

No way for cheaper materials, I don't want my PS3 to break down as much as my 360.Mochyc

Agreed. I'd gladly pay more for quality and reliability. 

Uhh...I don't think degrading the product is going to help matters.rothman713

agreed.  if Sony chose to go with the cheapest parts, it would be just like another console that constantly has problems.  So then we would go from, "God the PS3 is so expensive." to "God the PS3 keeps breaking down because it is so cheap."

always remember, you get what you pay for. 

First off, a 1g HDD would probably be as expensive as a 20g, if not more expensive. No producers make 1g anymore, you will even have a very hard time getting anything below 20g these days, so if Sony would want to get them, they would need to pass a special command to a producer, and still they don't mass produce them, it would turn out more expensive.

Not only that, but it just wouldn't work. Most demos on the PSN are 1g, so you couldn't get any. The frameware eats a portion of that. Games like Oblivion eat 4 gigs of your HDD.

For developpers to take advantage of the PS3 specs, they must be regularized, and they must be regularized high. Or else devs will make their games with the lower specs in mind, to get a wider audience, thus making the 'better' versions useless.

That sounds like a cheap home made PS3 to me. No thanks to that, I am VERY happy with my "Current" PS3 thank you. The PS3 is perfect as it is. leave it be.

• PS3 with $399 price tag. How? By doing the following things:

1. Stripping it down to the bare bones. No need for giant hard drive, include a 1GB one instead and have compatibility w/ external USBs and hard drives for more memory.
2. Finding cheaper manufacturers for Blu Ray for the skeleton version. This may mean lower quality, but not as low as the Wii and near 360 quality. For premium graphics get the 20 or 60 gig ones.
3. Delete MP3 playback and storage. Who honestly needs it? Most play their MP3s off their PCs/Macs or their iPods. Have a compatibility w/ MP3 players for playback in-game.
4. Make the cases out of cheaper material. No gloss and semi-shiny plastic instead of expensive metal.
5. Remove the slot loading drive and replace it w/ an option to put the disc directly on top, like the PS2 Slimline.
6. Have fewer USB ports and card readers.

For other pointers to sell, it should:

1. Have more exclusive and better games, both 1st and 3rd party.
2. Introduce the greatest hits section for abot $30-35 a game.
3. Introduce some budget games for gamers tight on cash but want a new game.
4. Have a better ad campaign. The laughing baby was creepy and made no sense.
5. Appeal to a wider audience, like little kids, middle aged people and people in between. How? Follow the Wii strategy. Release Crash Bandicoot and Spyro games. Make a new kid friendly franchise. Make a new party game franchise (Xbox has Fuzion Frenzy and the Wii has...Mario Party (it sucks, but sells)).
6. Cheaper controllers and accessories.

Comments?

akodikosako

WOW, NO ONE HAS BROUGHT THIS UP ... LOWERING THE PRICE OF THE PS3

LAME, Either pay the price or move on, stop whining about it in threads(posted to look like constructive crit)

Im pretty sure the only people who start these are people who DONT OWN ONE, and see the MAGIC, 

WELL WORTH 599.00 

This is all Sony needs:

1) Price drop this year by 100-200 dollars

2) More games :D

3) Better ads

Hmm let's see the first 2 will probably happen number we'll just have to see..Sony aren't idiots they know what they're doing, but they should becareful.

[QUOTE="rothman713"]Uhh...I don't think degrading the product is going to help matters.eclipsed4utoo

agreed. if Sony chose to go with the cheapest parts, it would be just like another console that constantly has problems. So then we would go from, "God the PS3 is so expensive." to "God the PS3 keeps breaking down because it is so cheap."

always remember, you get what you pay for.

So true. 

wow, just wow,  remind me not to buy anythin that u will develop, just horrible man, sonys all about quality and quantity, and i love my ps3 the way it is,

PS ID: SiRLaFFsAlOt 

1. Have a better ad campaign. The laughing baby was creepy and made no sense.

So true!

horrible idea. that's just another way to confuse the consumer.eclipsed4utoo

• PS3 with $399 price tag. How? By doing the following things:

1. Stripping it down to the bare bones. No need for giant hard drive, include a 1GB one instead and have compatibility w/ external USBs and hard drives for more memory.
2. Finding cheaper manufacturers for Blu Ray for the skeleton version. This may mean lower quality, but not as low as the Wii and near 360 quality. For premium graphics get the 20 or 60 gig ones.
3. Delete MP3 playback and storage. Who honestly needs it? Most play their MP3s off their PCs/Macs or their iPods. Have a compatibility w/ MP3 players for playback in-game.
4. Make the cases out of cheaper material. No gloss and semi-shiny plastic instead of expensive metal.
5. Remove the slot loading drive and replace it w/ an option to put the disc directly on top, like the PS2 Slimline.
6. Have fewer USB ports and card readers.

For other pointers to sell, it should:

1. Have more exclusive and better games, both 1st and 3rd party.
2. Introduce the greatest hits section for abot $30-35 a game.
3. Introduce some budget games for gamers tight on cash but want a new game.
4. Have a better ad campaign. The laughing baby was creepy and made no sense.
5. Appeal to a wider audience, like little kids, middle aged people and people in between. How? Follow the Wii strategy. Release Crash Bandicoot and Spyro games. Make a new kid friendly franchise. Make a new party game franchise (Xbox has Fuzion Frenzy and the Wii has...Mario Party (it sucks, but sells)).
6. Cheaper controllers and accessories.

Comments?

akodikosako

but if they had gone and done what u just said, they would have ended up with a xbox 

Terrible idea, PS3 is selling well, the last thing they need is to change the hardware and make a less reliable console, just imagine how many "My PS3 isn't working" threads we'll see everyday, PS3 is much superior to Xbox360 in the reliability department, so there's no need to change that.

Also, PS3 will have awesome games soon (MGS4, FF13, God of War 3..etc). More great games are out = more profit for Sony = eventually a price cut for the PS3 = We get a great console for less price, no need to degrade it.