Sony cost themselves this generation because of the initial $600 price tag

The price was the main reason I waited the year and a half to two years I did before getting one. While going through all the expenses at school and only working ~10-12 hours due to classes and hw I really couldn't justify $600 for just the console. Looking back now I wish I had been able to afford spending that kind of money because I wish mine had bc. However, even now I do not think I would pay that much for a console. If it's over $400 I am really going to have to think about it, since once you enter the real world its harder to justify spending that much on 1 console when others are usually much cheaper. I think that is the same mentality a lot of people had seeing as it didn't do well until price drops

Meh the 360 is actually more expensive between the overpriced hard drive you have to buy it and by getting ripped off with $60 every year, not to mention the incredibly high failure rate it had. But most lems are too dumb to realize that.kuraimen

I bought the PS3 at $600 and I wouldn't mind a starting price of $600 for the new PS4 since the system was totally worth every penny.

Click_Clock

No, there was a multitude of mistakes / assumptions like purposely making the PS3 hard to code for, same old or stupid controllers, unimpressive launch line up etc. plus having the whole Wii/60 thing going on as well. :P

And they gained it back by launching the slim, really these sony is doomed threads are gettinng really old. Get some new material please! And MS took a huge beating from the RROD fiasco, they have all had some losses and gains this gen. But they have all done well and made a profit, even Sony.

ShadowMoses900

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I bought the PS3 at $600 and I wouldn't mind a starting price of $600 for the new PS4 since the system was totally worth every penny.

DrakesHaloGears

It's pathetic, they had 80% of the market and lost almost all of it to a system with a quarter the power because they lacked foresight.

CaveJohnson1

Well, personally, I've been saying since LAST gen that Sony was going to lose market share no matter what. There is just no way to repeat all the "perfect storm" factors that helped Sony make the PS2 the single biggest and best selling console of all time...by a long shot. That just wasn't going to happen again no matter what because that kind of success is more about timing than it is about the product itself. Sony was able to be the right console at the right time when gaming was finally breaking into the mainstream.

So it also shouldn't be that surprising that they lost SOME market share. That was inevitable I think. Where they screwed up was releasing the console at such a ridiculously high price tag alienating that mainstream/core market who want to play games but jumped on the gaming bandwagon when the PS2 was probably closer to $249 or even$199. Dumping a $599 console on this crowd is just a bad, bad, bad idea. So they went with the best two alternatives - the quircky new nintendo console with all the fun little party games and/or the still relatively pricey but still much cheaper than the PS3, 360.

Meanwhile Nintendo was able to sort of copy Sony's successful strategy of appealing to and bringing in a new type of audience who didn't play games before. Attracting that new audience helped Nintendo regain their past success and be the #1 selling console this gen.

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I bought the PS3 at $600 and I wouldn't mind a starting price of $600 for the new PS4 since the system was totally worth every penny.

Heil68

That won't happen. The biggest problem with the PS3 was Sony decided to use it to push BR onto the market in a big and fast way. BR players were selling for close to $1000 dollars and they put the same tech into the PS3. EVen at $600 they took a pretty steep loss. Some estimate as much as $200 per console. Although, the tech for most stand alone players also plummets pretty quickly so it help Sony a little bit and they have reported profits at certain points. Interestingly enough, the PS3 is still the best BR player on the market.

Now BR players are dirt cheap and only going to get cheaper (to make) by the time PS4 is launched. So unless Sony tries to do something stupid again, like put a hologram projector into the system, chances are the PS4 will be much more reasonably priced and will likely be the exact same price as whatever MS decides to launch at. Probably $399 is going to be the new norm.

[QUOTE="Click_Clock"]

I bought the PS3 at $600 and I wouldn't mind a starting price of $600 for the new PS4 since the system was totally worth every penny.

DrakesHaloGears

And their horrible line up of horrible games.

Seriously,it was disappointment followed by disappointment.