Sony PS3 at $200: Will sell like PS2 and 140m sales
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Daniel
Posted on: July 20, 2008 | 49 Comments
The current $400 price for a Sony PS3 is a good one and it also means that Sony are losing money on every Playstation 3 sold. What’s confusing at first is the report on FT today that chief executive of Sony’s PlayStation 3 (Kaz Hirai) wants to exceed the PS2 units sold.
When you look at the figures, this is a major claim considering the PS3 has only sold 12.85m compared to the PS2’s 140m.
Some analysts say that the price of the Playstation 3 needs to get below the $200 mark before it will start to sell as well as the PS2. That would not be a surprise at that cheap price, but this price point will not be coming anytime soon.
The Nintendo Wii is ruling the market not just for its unique control system compared to the PS3 and Xbox 360; it is also the cheap price that the Wii has been since the start.
When Kaz Hirai said to FT that they want to pass the PS2 numbers, he was setting this goal for a similar time period of the PS2’s life.
With the PS3 having such a slow start in its first twenty months, it really needs to get moving with unit sales and last months results were good thanks to MGS4, but there needs to be a lot more.
If you do not own a PS3, are you waiting for the right price?
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sony wont make the ps3 to 2004 until like 4-6 years later.
Sony will need to make the internal Blu Ray seperate, and restore FULL BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY, 4 USB PORTS, MEMORY CARD SLOTS, etc. It’s just fact. But when they do, and hopefully the price will be under $199, the PS3 will receive MASSIVE sales!
Take my advice Sony, this will work
you are stupid!! if sony removed the blu ray, then the games wont be playable because the games are all on blu ray format. The idea of sony was to make ps3 have the blu so when the developers made games for ps3, the games would be bigger better and more badass, or is that from cliff.
qahar you are right, the bluray cannot be seperate
It already lost a lot of market share to Nintendo and Microsoft, and a 200 dollar PS3 means massive losses for Sony, and by massive, I mean in the billions of dollars annually.
They are ruined, their only hope for survival is either doing what Sega did and start selling games only, or releasing another PS2-like console ASAP. And no, I don’t have a PS3, just like all of my friends that left the Sony market and moved to Microsoft/Nintendo after this huge fiasco.
Congrats on your misleading and vacuous “article” (replete with an intentionally titillating yet wholly misleading title), which offers exactly zero information or perspective. Enjoy the extra ad revenue it brought your site by getting picked up by Google news!
they should make one with out a hard drive so it can be cheaper
There aren’t too many blue ray players for under $500 atm. So when those goes down I can see it happening.
Here is something to think about. Make the unit work on a seperate 12volt system so that you can use it in the car as the parents drive. This will make the parents go out and get one to keep the kids quiet. A Seperate power supply will make the unit smaller and lighter, making it easy to move around. Wifi on it is an added plus.
Sony…..Your “Get Rich Quik” scheme with PS3 didn’t work. I doubt it sells very well at $300……but you could try. Oh, BTW……..backward compatible or go jump.