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| | (Post a comment) » Sony PS3: A sinking ship?So claims CNN Money's Eric Krangel. With the economy in recession and Nintendo and Microsoft's consoles priced at $250 or less, Krangel believes that the PS3 is "flopping" due to its high price tag. As for Blu-ray, one of Sony's key selling points over Xbox 360, Krangel sums it up pretty simply: "Too bad no one seems to care about hi-def DVDs. The differences between Blu-Ray and DVD are hard to see on a TV less than 50"."
The question is, how much of the PS3's sluggish sales are due to pricing? And if they do cut prices, how far should Sony go? $300? $200? |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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 Cannyone (21)  Dec 23, 2008 - 04:36 pm
| » Does Anyone Else Remember the Sega Saturn?
I feel a degree of pity for PS3 fans. I know you want to be loyal. And you probably hate Microsoft an Nintendo. It also seems that you don't want to listen to talk about Economics. But do you remember back when the original Playstation was launched? At that time there was another console by the name of the Sega Saturn. Alot of people argued that the Saturn was technically superior, even if it was harder to program for...
But, as a consumer, all that initially mattered to me was; 1. the games and 2. the price. See the Playstation was $300 and the Saturn was $400. So even though the Saturn was fairly popular, the Playstation sold allot more units and that meant that more publishers chose to support that platform.
Now what does that have to do with the PS3? It's simple, now the PS3 is higher priced and selling fewer units. This means that eventually it will become less viable for a game developer to spend the money to program for that platform. And when the games are no longer there, there's no compelling reason for people to buy a PS3.» Login to reply to this |
  Dant (627)    Dec 18, 2008 - 11:54 am
| | I still contend that HD programing is becoming readily available through direct means (FIOS, Roku, etc.) and therefore the days of DVD and Blu Ray are numbered. Who needs a disc when you can get your entertainment instantly from a menu? » Login to reply to this DKBK (88) Dec 21, 2008 - 08:58 am
| Right now it doesn't make sense to have digital distribution for movies except in a couple select areas because of ISP restrictions.
In all for a handful of places, if you stream 4-5 HD movies a month, you'll blow over your limit.
I don't see that changing from customer pressure on ISP for the next 4-5 years. And remote areas might never get there.» Login to reply to this |
x4 Critical (396) Dec 20, 2008 - 08:22 am
| I have an extensive DVD and Blu-ray collection, but I would absolutely love to be able to buy Blu-ray quality movies like one does for music with iTunes. No disks to swap, no hassle, just click, download and watch a movie. Would be great for the kids too.
However, even with 1.5TB drives out right now, I would need a farm of HD's, and downloading 25GB movies at a time would not only take forever, but would most likely get me kicked off my ISP.
And I refuse to pay to stream movies and to only keep them for a few days. I pay for it, I own it.» Login to reply to this Labotomizer (1077) Dec 24, 2008 - 10:39 am
| Over the next few years you'll see revenue compensations from the movie and TV studios to ISPs for download bandwidth. It's the natural offset. That programming would normally make the cable/internet provider money through advertising and OnDemand costs. As long as the movie studios compensate the carriers for bandwidth it won't count towards any download restrictions.
It'll also be additional incentive to buy a movie rather than steal it since legal content won't cost extra to download. (or get your service terminated) I'd guess it's a couple years away but as the cable 3.0 spec, FIOS and U-verse are more widely available we'll have 100-150 Mb at home for what we're paying now.» Login to reply to this |
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