See What Happens When You Price Something Way Too High !!?

Sony PS2 owners, like myself and many other millions of folks, just sit &
wait.

If Sony were to reduce the PS3 price by 25%, PS3 sales would go up by 20-200%
or more...

If Sony were to reduce the PS3 price by 50%, PS3 sales would go up by 40-400%
or more...

Does Sony have access to calculators ?

well according to the idiots on these ng's, the people that didn't buy it
are all just jealous jerks that don't make enough to buy it and all the
systems. that's funny though cause I have like 50k so I guess im jealous or
something cause I didn't buy a ps3 either.

"Sumer" <8sumerlab@yolde.com> wrote in message
news:464c3f59$0$13865$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be...
>
> Sony PS2 owners, like myself and many other millions of folks, just sit &
> wait.
>
> If Sony were to reduce the PS3 price by 25%, PS3 sales would go up by
> 20-200%
> or more...
>
> If Sony were to reduce the PS3 price by 50%, PS3 sales would go up by
> 40-400%
> or more...
>
> Does Sony have access to calculators ?
>

On May 17, 7:41 am, "Sumer" <8sumer...@yolde.com> wrote:
> Sony PS2 owners, like myself and many other millions of folks, just sit &
> wait.
>
> If Sony were to reduce the PS3 price by 25%, PS3 sales would go up by 20-200%
> or more...
>
> If Sony were to reduce the PS3 price by 50%, PS3 sales would go up by 40-400%
> or more...
>
> Does Sony have access to calculators ?

And when you are losing over $250 per each console you sell, you do
that, and you bleed red ink even faster.

- The Rich

"Sumer" <8sumerlab@yolde.com> wrote in message
news:464c3f59$0$13865$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be...
>
> Sony PS2 owners, like myself and many other millions of folks, just sit &
> wait.
>
> If Sony were to reduce the PS3 price by 25%, PS3 sales would go up by
20-200%
> or more...
>
> If Sony were to reduce the PS3 price by 50%, PS3 sales would go up by
40-400%
> or more...
>
> Does Sony have access to calculators ?

If Mercedes priced their cars at $1000 each, I'm sure that their sales would
go up by 500% or more...

If Apple priced their iPods at $20 each, iPod sales would go up by 800% or
more...

So why don't they?

Obviously, it isn't as easy as simply reducing the price. Sony is packing a
lot of expensive hardware inside the PS3. While we can argue whether or not
that was a good idea, its a done deal. If a PS3 costs Sony $850 to
manufacture, and it retails for $600, they are already losing $250 per
console. Historically, hardware manufacturers make up the loss through
software licensing and, eventually, through a reduction in the manufacturing
costs. Sometimes this never happens (as with the original Xbox) because not
enough software is sold.

Yes, Sony is going to have to reduce the PS3 price because it isn't selling
well, but if they reduce it too drastically, that gives them an even larger
defict to erase. At $400, a loss of $450 per console, Sony would have to
sell *45* games (assuming a $10 licensing fee) to each PS3 owner just to
break even!

On Thu, 17 May 2007 16:35:09 -0700, "Android"
<androvich@NOSPAMcomcast.net> wrote:

>
>"Sumer" <8sumerlab@yolde.com> wrote in message
>news:464c3f59$0$13865$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be.. .
>>
>> Sony PS2 owners, like myself and many other millions of folks, just sit &
>> wait.
>>
>> If Sony were to reduce the PS3 price by 25%, PS3 sales would go up by
>20-200%
>> or more...
>>
>> If Sony were to reduce the PS3 price by 50%, PS3 sales would go up by
>40-400%
>> or more...
>>
>> Does Sony have access to calculators ?
>
>If Mercedes priced their cars at $1000 each, I'm sure that their sales would
>go up by 500% or more...
>
>If Apple priced their iPods at $20 each, iPod sales would go up by 800% or
>more...
>
>So why don't they?
>
>Obviously, it isn't as easy as simply reducing the price. Sony is packing a
>lot of expensive hardware inside the PS3. While we can argue whether or not
>that was a good idea, its a done deal. If a PS3 costs Sony $850 to
>manufacture, and it retails for $600, they are already losing $250 per
>console. Historically, hardware manufacturers make up the loss through
>software licensing and, eventually, through a reduction in the manufacturing
>costs. Sometimes this never happens (as with the original Xbox) because not
>enough software is sold.
>
>Yes, Sony is going to have to reduce the PS3 price because it isn't selling
>well, but if they reduce it too drastically, that gives them an even larger
>defict to erase. At $400, a loss of $450 per console, Sony would have to
>sell *45* games (assuming a $10 licensing fee) to each PS3 owner just to
>break even!
>


Yeah so you could say Sony were geniuses right from the beginning when
they said let's start off by selling a $600 gaming system which we
will lose $250 per unit with. hahaha. Pure geniuses.

In article <p0fr43tn5bavdgf0794hd11c1enj57vmfd@4ax.com>,
Bullseye <bulls@ei.com> wrote:

> Yeah so you could say Sony were geniuses right from the beginning when
> they said let's start off by selling a $600 gaming system which we
> will lose $250 per unit with. hahaha. Pure geniuses.

They've made more money from consoles in the last 10 years than any
other company.

Maybe this is a big mistake or maybe they recover by the end and eek out
a little profit.

MS would love to eek out even a little profit by the end of this gen.

On Fri, 18 May 2007 13:19:18 -0700, poldy <poldy@kfu.com> wrote:

>In article <p0fr43tn5bavdgf0794hd11c1enj57vmfd@4ax.com>,
> Bullseye <bulls@ei.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah so you could say Sony were geniuses right from the beginning when
>> they said let's start off by selling a $600 gaming system which we
>> will lose $250 per unit with. hahaha. Pure geniuses.
>
>They've made more money from consoles in the last 10 years than any
>other company.
>
>Maybe this is a big mistake or maybe they recover by the end and eek out
>a little profit.
>
>MS would love to eek out even a little profit by the end of this gen.


Yeah they've made a lot of money and are now losing a lot of money
lol. By a stupid plan. The plan was to sell a $600 machine and think
people would buy it. Now we know they wouldn't. And because it would
put Blu-ray players in a lot of homes, making it win the format war.
Wrong! If it wins the format war it won't be because of any PS3 I can
tell you that.

And don't worry about Microsoft, they make lots of money and aren't
losing money like Sony is.