Sony announced on Tuesday that the long awaited price drop for the PS3 has finally come at a great new price of $249.99 in all US retail stores. However, was this as smart a move as it seems?"
Update The title for the article has been changed to "Big Brother PS3 Says Hello to Little Brother Vita" due to invalid judgements solely based on the headline.
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pointless article , only looking it at one sided because this is the hot new topic
No they won't. When I was spending a lot of time in airports because I was travelling a lot, I went to buy a portable device. I bought a PSP, I didn't walk out with a Wii because they were similarly priced at the time and I got confused because they both played games.
I can't believe we're seeing another one of these articles.
http://n4g.com/news/70979/s...
With that out of the way, I'm pretty sure Sony know this themselves.
Therefore, I predict a PSV price drop before the release.
The new prices will be something like $250/$300 and £200/£250 for UK.
As long as the PSV is $10 lower than the PS3, it will look lower in the eyes of all those confused parents who want to buy a new console for their kids. Thus leading to a whole bunch of sales for Sony.
How can anyone not tell the difference between a handheld device and a console? And why would two things costing the same price confuse people?
I saw a washing machine that costed the same as a ps3, I was confused for a bit but eventually got the washing machine, it had better games, and was portable.
Wow, that explains the meltdown I had in a Sony store... The HDTV was BIGGER, but the Vaio had MORE FEATURES. But the price was THE SAME!!
I couldn't cope, and went home to eat crayons.
/s and maybe /jk
LOL at your reply.
I didn't mean 'bigger' physically. I meant technology wise, name wise.
People who have never had a console before would more likely go for the console that can be connected to a HD TV, watch blu-ray movies, surf the net with Flash and also play stunning HD games.
Compare that with the VITA, obviously people with no knowledge will go for the PS3.
If Mercedes unveiled a new smaller version of one of their classics, which was more economical and slower than the other better looking model, what would you go for if they are priced the same?
That being said, people like me and you who already have a PS3, already know that we're going towards the VITA, most likely because we already have a PS3 and don't need another one.
BTW, I'm probably the biggest SONY fanboy on this page right now, so don't try and say that I am downgrading the VITA or the PS3 in anyway, it's just logic to be honest.
I know what I am saying is correct from previous experiences with the elder family. It's simple.
Yes, the Vita is going to be a great piece of hardware. But most consumers don't care about how much ram it has or what type of GPU it uses. They care about the price. As evident with Nintendo and the 3DS.
Nintendo thought it was going to make a bajillion dollars with the 3DS, but it turns out they weren't as successful with it most notably because of the price. Who wants to drop 250 on a handheld that isn't phone?
My point being, Sony made a great move with the price drop of the PS3. It's never a bad idea to get more people to buy your product. But it might not be so good for the Vita when it debuts in the coming months.
A phone's battery and controls can't handle the amount of gaming we play. A VITA is not competing with a phone. It is competing in the GAMING world. It does not have to out sell the 3DS or a phone it just has to sell well. The 3DS was never worth $250. Nintendo got greedy and tried to con you. The VITA is worth $250. Get it?
Stop with the predictions.They were wrong about the price, wrong about the exclusive games, wrong that it can't fit in your pocket and wrong about the RAM. Aren't all of you tired of being wrong yet?
Believe it or not, the GAMING handheld market isn't limited by two handhelds (Nintendo DS and the PSP) anymore. It's now accompanied by the iPhone and Android supported phones as well.
Like it or not, despite it's inferior specs, battery life, etc. Phones are a major player into whether the VITA is a success or not. Especially in a shitty economy like the one we have going on now where people have to choose between one or the other and certainly not both.
I'm certainly not downlplaying how awesome the VITA is going to be when it comes out, I have one pre-ordered and can't wait to play some Uncharted on it. But to not consider the current mobile market as a competitor is naive and is exactly where Nintendo went wrong with the 3DS.
While I love spending 5 minutes playing Angry Birds on my SGS2, it will never replace my dedicated gaming. The interface, controls or games can't compete with Vita on any level.
Nobody is saying that the smartphone market doesn't affect the sales of handheld consoles, but it certainly isn't destroying it either. As long as there are core gamers there will be handheld consoles and they will sell well.
The disappointing sales of 3DS is not caused completely because playing on your phone is on a steep rise. It was bad marketing (a lot of people think it's just a DS with 3D), too high price to begin with and the lack of good amount of quality games so far that caused that.
Now you have millions of brainwashed people (the one thing Apple is good at) thinking their device plays games. "You spent 250 on that just to play games? I can do that and talk on the phone look" thats going to happen, I know it.
Its Sony's job to get this in as many hands as possible, thus a cheaper price, and to show people these are REAL GAMES thats what they do. You NEED a PSV to play real games or you go play casual WANNABE games. Truth or not, this is what Sony HAS to do to be successful. Honest Apple tooks aim at them, now its their turn to return fire. Make commercials that literally say what I just said and you are golden.
too early to say. until smartphones are able to make calls, text, game, internet, music and video all day with no risk of battery dying, i believe there will still be room to own more specific devices.
Who comes up with this stuff?
Just like everyone else does when they lower a price to improve sales.
Where is everyone getting all these bullets
Say what now??
How does someone shoot themselves in the foot like that?
I doubt there are a whole lot of people out there who want both buy have neither, but couldn't justify buying a PS3 until now.
It wont be a problem for PS3 either because it's still selling healthily and people that want them, Vita or not, will buy them
400USD for a PSV&PS3... right?
PSV is a handheld
^ These two are not competing
Anyway,I guess you can see this as a "problem" if you look at it as they're competing with themselves. But the PS3 is the PS3 and the Vita is the Vita the idea of the Vita is to use it in conjunction with the PS3 and then as a solid, stand alone device.
*Sigh*
Learn your own language, guys.
On topic: No, they isn't. I think they is going to be OK. Unless it don't. I doesn't sure at this time.
EDIT: and now the source article title has been changed altogether. prob a good idea.
Customers with $250 to go buy a PS3 will walk out with a PS3.
They both do very different things. One's a home device and a console. The other is a handheld with the capability of an iPod. I wouldn't walk into an Apple store and be like
"dur dur dur do I want an iPad or Macbook? ]_]"
Hey Guys its me R17, First off I must say never have I written something that has become soo misunderstood to the point where I felt I have to respond back to all of you. This is because almost everybody is missing the message and not understanding the article at all.
I have a feeling that perhaps most of you guys did not read may article in it's entirety, otherwise you wouldn't have released half of these comments on my article. Your conclusion is completely invalid and I will kindly explain.
My belief, which was written in the article, was stating a fact that handheld gaming (whether it be the 3DS, PSP, iPhone or iPad) are generally selling at a faster rate than home consoles such as the PS3, 360 and Wii. My article is stating that people in 2011 are more interested and willing to play casual handheld titles that are not restricted to only home use. And according to the iPhone/iPad market sales figures, this statement completely could not be more true...not even counting the fantastic sales figures of the 3DS within the past week.
So again, my article is not about handheld systems dying out!!! or about PEOPLE BECOMING CONFUSED ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PSV AND PS3!!!, but rather replacing home consoles! I am talking about the fact that most consumers today do not want home systems they want handheld's and the same price point for PSV and PS3 I feel might lead people away from PS3 and more into PSV based on the statistics nowadays. Also I base this on the fact that people who do not own a PS3 as of yet will realize that there are far better and a lot more games coming out for the PSV than PS3 in the coming year of 2012. I would appreciate everybody giving my article the time and effort of carefully reading every detail before hitting a disagree button for the wrong reason. Again, thank you guys for your interest I appreciate all future feedback from everyone.
"my belief... was stating a fact..." lol, which is it? a 'belief' or a 'fact'?
Sony is a hardware developer their strategy is to make products for each market and sometimes their products unintentionally do affect the other market.
Just like the iPhone affected the sales of the iPod and the iPad on the Mac notebooks. This things happen.
So to say Sony is shooting themselves in the foot when they are completely doing what other hardware manufacturer is doing, is completely misleading.
The PSV is there for the dedicated handheld market (even the Xperia is somewhere out there) the PS3 is for the console market. Will they affect each other? Sure. Will they kill each other? No.
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It doesn't matter if the PSV steals from PS3 sales the money still goes to SONY.
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Derp de Derp de diddly derp.
Not to mention the PSV is being advertised to have connectivity with the PS3.
After the Ninty made the price drop to the 3DS and it started selling now everyone else is turning to Sony and the PSV for their doom and gloom article. Will the dedicated handheld market ever catch a break from these guys?
Why is making the PS3 much more affordable a bad thing?