Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
PS3 is cheaper🤨
Are they forgetting that a massive portion of their buyers are teenagers? Shit, the $600 US price is equivalent to something like $1000 over here, not many people have that much money to throw out on a gaming machine, PLUS the additional peripherals and games, which will only last a few years until the next wave of consoles come out.
I remember when the PS2 came out, only one of my friends bought one, and he didnt even pay for it himself. The price was ridiculously high for our age, when only a few of us had jobs. It was another year or so until the price dropped that a couple more of my friends bought one. Now they're charging double of what the PS2 was? I cant see many people buying one on launch day, only the diehard fans.
Originally posted by Mišt
Are they forgetting that a massive portion of their buyers are teenagers? Shit, the $600 US price is equivalent to something like $1000 over here, not many people have that much money to throw out on a gaming machine, PLUS the additional peripherals and games, which will only last a few years until the next wave of consoles come out.I remember when the PS2 came out, only one of my friends bought one, and he didnt even pay for it himself. The price was ridiculously high for our age, when only a few of us had jobs. It was another year or so until the price dropped that a couple more of my friends bought one. Now they're charging double of what the PS2 was? I cant see many people buying one on launch day, only the diehard fans.
I remember when PS2 came out, a dude in my media class bought one and he said he was going to pay around $300-$400 for it.
Believe it or not but PS3 will sell out like the 360 did. Fanboys will pay whatever price SONY puts on it. So basically SONY will milk the fanboys as much as possible before lowering the price therefore I say let the fanboys pay for all the new technology SONY had to invest in until SONY has recouped something because only until then will the price drop.
Not to mention they will have a WORLD LAUNCH so dont expect them to fill the shelves up completely. There are 6 months left until launch and some games arent even complete and the system is still going thru some final bug specs. The launch will fail like 360 because of demand.
Originally posted by El_NINO
Believe it or not but PS3 will sell out like the 360 did. Fanboys will pay whatever price SONY puts on it. So basically SONY will milk the fanboys as much as possible before lowering the price therefore I say let the fanboys pay for all the new technology SONY had to invest in until SONY has recouped something because only until then will the price drop.
Blah, I say dont buy it so Sony dont make their money back, that'll teach 'em 😈
Originally posted by Mišt
Are they forgetting that a massive portion of their buyers are teenagers? Shit, the $600 US price is equivalent to something like $1000 over here, not many people have that much money to throw out on a gaming machine, PLUS the additional peripherals and games, which will only last a few years until the next wave of consoles come out.I remember when the PS2 came out, only one of my friends bought one, and he didnt even pay for it himself. The price was ridiculously high for our age, when only a few of us had jobs. It was another year or so until the price dropped that a couple more of my friends bought one. Now they're charging double of what the PS2 was? I cant see many people buying one on launch day, only the diehard fans.
Parents usually spoiled their kids. But with the high price of gasoline these days they may have to tighten their belts on console purchases. $600 on paper looks simple. When you actually do the numbers...is just way to high. No question about it.
Here is something that PS3 wasn't expecting from Ubisoft:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=17032
Assasins Creed was one of Sony's biggest boast in E3. Seems like this is a blow to their line up.
Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
Parents usually spoiled their kids. But with the high price of gasoline these days they may have to tighten their belts on console purchases. $600 on paper looks simple. When you actually do the numbers...is just way to high. No question about it.
No doubt about it. The spoiled kids will get it, but how many spoiled kids make up the videogame market?
Also, is anybody forgetting tax on this thing?
In Canada, expect to pay another $100 bucks on the thing.
It's bad considering the PS3 should have better graphics than the 360, but not $200 more, and they dont have an wicked online system.
lol anyone read news in japan...2% want a 360 while everyone else wants PS3 and next inline the WII. Some even say the same games won't even matter they are picking it to support the japanese creator of Sony and Nintendo which is sad, gahh thats not fair just because the guy that made 360 isn't japanese.
It is no secret that Microsoft’s hold on Japan, outside of Windows, is pretty weak. Even Apple and its ipod product line exceed Microsoft’s hold on the digital multimedia market, let alone compare to Sony’s stake with home-field advantage. The giant of PC operating systems seems to always start slowly in markets where they do not dominate, but slowly over time their stake in the market grows until they are number one like they did with the Pocket PC market. For the first time Microsoft has seen a decline in interest in one of their products.
The new Xbox 360 has sold worse than the original Xbox in Japan over the same time frame. Xbox 360 has just sold 150,000 units over a 4 month time frame in Japan. In contrast the original Xbox sold more than double at 350,000 units. The answer given by the Japanese as to why they dislike the Xbox 360, has overwhelmingly been the lack of games and support. At launch there were only 8 games available and only 3 of them were made by Japanese developers. To make matters worse, the most highly anticipated Japanese game at launch was delayed by 2 weeks. Other anticipated Japanese games have taken delays as well, with the most being 3 months. The delays and the lack of games led Japanese Xbox General Manager Mr. Sansui to publicly declare the Japanese Xbox 360 launch a failure on April 6th.
Takashi Sensui, General Manager of Microsoft's Xbox Division in Japan
Never Say Die
Microsoft has never given up on a product and certainly does not plan to give up on Xbox 360 Japan. Microsoft’s contingency plan, outlined by Mr. Sensui, relies on getting more Japanese multimedia outlet and game developers to support the Xbox 360; in a race to capture more Japanese consumers before Sony and Nintendo can pick them up.
The plan outlines more support from Japanese game developers Sega, Namco, Bandai, Konami, Square-Enix, SNK Playmore, Hudson, Yuke's, and D3. Each will be producing a multitude of titles that will boost the number of Japanese Xbox 360 titles from 25 games released to date to 80 games released by the end of this year. These games do not include online Xbox Live Arcade games which have been the most redeeming quality of the Xbox 360 launch with an amazing 520,000 downloads accounting for 95% of the Japanese Xbox 360s sold. Microsoft is betting on that classic arcade titles such as Pac-Man and Galaga will boost the reputation of Xbox Live Arcade and help attract more sales.
Also in effort to attract more sales, Microsoft has enlisted Bandai to create a Gundam first-person shooter game. Gundam is as large of a name in Japan as Star Wars is in the US and Microsoft is hoping to spur more sales on its popularity. Another big name enlisted by Microsoft is Mr. Sakaguchi’s Mistwalker studio. Mr. Sakaguchi is considered to be the father of Japanese role-play gaming and has been responsible for some of the best Japanese games of all time. Microsoft has continuously boasted this alliance since the Japanese launch and is now starting to heavily promote Mr. Sakaguchi’s games in preparation for his game’s release.
Entrepreneurs and Contingency Plans
The text describes contingency plans as plans to activate when things don’t work out as they should. Microsoft’s contingency plan is a text book case of reevaluating the situation and developing a plan to remain in business.
The Japanese Xbox 360 was a failing business. In order to fix a failing business you must either close, sell, or develop a new plan to stay in business. For a company with assets and the size of Microsoft, the only choice was to develop a new plan and execute it. Closing a business which is doing well in other territories would be corporate suicide. Selling Xbox Japan to their competitors Sony and Nintendo would hurt their other territories where Xbox is doing fine. The only plan of action left for Microsoft was to gather their strengths and weaknesses and consolidate them.
Microsoft saw that their largest problem was the lack of Japanese support for Xbox 360. They then contacted Japanese developers and multimedia outlets and persuaded them to invest games and media into Xbox 360 with the possibility of seeing large returns because they are the only Japanese developers on the platform. In a sense the Japanese developers that jumped on board Xbox 360 are entrepreneurs that found a market with very little competition, a chance to make a huge profit, and all the risk of going under if it doesn’t succeed.
Japan's Xbox 360 Cafe/Lounge
More Support Needed
Hearing Microsoft’s contingency plan was the first time I felt more assured about the future of the Xbox 360. Their contingency plan was right on the money of what needs to be done to pump the water out this sinking ship, adrift on the shores of the land of the rising sun. The holes will finally be plugged, but what this ship will still need is the waves and the wind of the Japanese hype machine. Slight waves and wind are always present on the sea, but it will do no good if the Xbox 360 has nothing to catch them. More support from the Japanese developers and the multimedia outlets is needed. Not just game support and commercials. The Japanese developers that have jumped on board have more than done their part. No, I believe its Microsoft’s turn to step up and put more emphasis on targeting what makes Japanese culture.
Zegapain XOR
Microsoft announced the exclusive rights to a brand new Anime in Japan named Zegapain XOR. The Xbox 360 is named traditionally at the beginning as a sponsor of the show and the game will later be found exclusively on the Xbox 360. In Japan it is very common for outside corporations to sponsor a TV program, particularly with animated shows, and the sponsors name be spoken as well as the logo be shown before the beginning of each program. When a show becomes a hit the people are more inclined to think better about those sponsors. Sony’s PlayStation and Nintendo have been doing this for a decade and the brand loyalty by consumers’ shows for it. Of course that kind of advertising isn’t everything, but it sure goes a long way to understanding Japanese culture. With more pop culture Japanese advertising, Microsoft could finally gain a foot on Japanese soil and prove to them they are serious about games and Japanese culture.
Originally posted by Ritoshi
This just in..the PS3 will whipe your ass and grill burgers but I don't think it has games yet.
Possibly the truest anti-Sony remark there is.
Approaching the PS2's release, people were saying how it was powerful enough to be part of a missile launching system and shit, official people.
I went through two of them because they packed in and refused to play blue discs.
"It can do everything! Except last, and play games."
-AC
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Possibly the truest anti-Sony remark there is.Approaching the PS2's release, people were saying how it was powerful enough to be part of a missile launching system and shit, official people.
I went through two of them because they packed in and refused to play blue discs.
"It can do everything! Except last, and play games."
-AC
I went through 3.