Related Tags
Latest comments
Latest forum comments
News
No Euro PS3 price cut as Sony doesn't want to annoy anyone
Posted on Tuesday, 24 July 2007 by Speed, source: Threespeech
Over at Sony's "semi-official" gaming blog, Threespeech is an interview with SCEE head David Reeves who states that Europe isn't getting any PS3 price cuts because Sony doesn't want to annoy anyone
I wonder what they're going to say in a couple of months. "We won't lower the price because we don't want to annoy the people we ripped off with the Value Pack" ?
If you’re a consumer — and we introduced the PS3 in March for £425 or 599 Euros – let’s say you bought one at the end of April and have been using it, playing Resistance: Fall of Man and MotorStorm. We’ve only been on the market for three and a bit months. Our thought process was: “Wait a minute – we’re actually not doing too badly – we’re not selling as well as Wii or DS – but seasonality-wise, compared to, say, PS2 at the same time we launched it in 2001, we’re actually doing quite well on a regional level”. It’s exactly the target that we sought. July is not really a gamers’ month unless you get a big, big title. So we thought if we reduced the price, we’d annoy a lot of people. We did think about it, but we also felt that it wasn’t doing that badly. In the US, they’ve been going for more than six months, so they took the decision that going down in price was a better thing to do than a value pack.
I wonder what they're going to say in a couple of months. "We won't lower the price because we don't want to annoy the people we ripped off with the Value Pack" ?
In other news:



6 Comment(s)
derf26 (old)
Oh and I think it's quite telling how they only mention two games.
Anonymous
Anonymous
DoubleD
Anonymous
derf26 (old)
It allows them to maintain an overpriced PS3 in Europe while still blaming it on anything and everything except their own pricing policy.