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What do you do after the shortage ends? 1300$ isn't a good price for long term, 400$ is. If you try to make a 70% price drop close to relase, you just screw ove

by _v7gu 5y ago

What do you do after the shortage ends? 1300$ isn't a good price for long term, 400$ is. If you try to make a 70% price drop close to relase, you just screw over your next console launch. Sony doesn't even profit from console sales, the actual juice is from PSN and cuts from game sales. I predict Sony will just cut their supply to Best Buy. They want their consoles to be cheap for a reason.

mywittyname 5y ago
They drop the price and/or offer bundles. They can even release a "preliminary price roadmap" for customers, stating explicitly that the price will drop over time, and let them decide when is a good time for them to buy. Plus, the PS4 Pros still exist. If a kid looks at a price roadmap and sees they can't afford a PS5 until 2023, but can afford a PS4 Pro now, and sees that they can get free PS5 upgrades on all games they buy for the PS4 Pro, they might pull the trigger on that. As it stands now, people were thoroughly uninterested in the PS4 Pro, until it became clear that they weren't getting a PS5 anytime soon, so then prices on those spiked as well. Every other consumer electronic has a stratified product lineup, where the top of the line model has a crazy high price, which drops quickly. Sony is just behind the times in this respect.
- Dracophoenix 5y ago
  What about the studios who spent 5+ years and millions of dollars in development to release their game to a particular console? How will they recuperate their costs if no one is buying their games in the critical 6-month post-release window because the console is too expensive? Fewer early customers means fewer dollars to reinvest in the next Playstation game and that's fewer dollars spent by Sony for the next hardware release. It's a vicious cycle that's going to hit Sony right in the pocketbook in the short- and long-term. Third party studios aren't going to develop for a console with high a development cost AND reduced ROI.The result of your proposal is stagnating hardware and low game sales. These days, developers could just build games for the Xbox and easily port it to Windows and vice versa. Two markets for the price of a Windows server farm.

by _v7gu 5y ago

mywittyname 5y ago

They drop the price and/or offer bundles. They can even release a "preliminary price roadmap" for customers, stating explicitly that the price will drop over time, and let them decide when is a good time for them to buy. Plus, the PS4 Pros still exist. If a kid looks at a price roadmap and sees they can't afford a PS5 until 2023, but can afford a PS4 Pro now, and sees that they can get free PS5 upgrades on all games they buy for the PS4 Pro, they might pull the trigger on that. As it stands now, people were thoroughly uninterested in the PS4 Pro, until it became clear that they weren't getting a PS5 anytime soon, so then prices on those spiked as well. Every other consumer electronic has a stratified product lineup, where the top of the line model has a crazy high price, which drops quickly. Sony is just behind the times in this respect.

Dracophoenix 5y ago
What about the studios who spent 5+ years and millions of dollars in development to release their game to a particular console? How will they recuperate their costs if no one is buying their games in the critical 6-month post-release window because the console is too expensive? Fewer early customers means fewer dollars to reinvest in the next Playstation game and that's fewer dollars spent by Sony for the next hardware release. It's a vicious cycle that's going to hit Sony right in the pocketbook in the short- and long-term. Third party studios aren't going to develop for a console with high a development cost AND reduced ROI.The result of your proposal is stagnating hardware and low game sales. These days, developers could just build games for the Xbox and easily port it to Windows and vice versa. Two markets for the price of a Windows server farm.