Comments on: How Sony Can Boost PS3 Sales

By: netvitrinim

netvitrinim — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:41:17 +0000

There is just one simple reason the ps3 is slacking behind the 360 and that are the limited number of exclusives. And since the ps3 is getting ported versions of 360 games there was just no reason to buy the ps3 for a long time. But that is dramatically changing at the moment.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:52:04 +0000

It is allways funny to see these highly over educated analytics describe what Sony has to do to get back on track.

Bring out a cheaper version without Blu-Ray? People are way to focused on the pricepoint of the ps3. Sure when it was $600 that was totally true. but now the ps3 costs 399, which is on par with the Xbox Elite. Looking at what you get the 399 seems more then fair. The Blu-Ray is actually the smartest thing Sony has done in a long time. It’s not just in there to play movies you know. Companies such as Rockstar complained about the 360 limited storage and are working on a ps3 exclusive allready that will take advantage of Blu-ray. Same goes for Team Ninja and any other developer that wants to push gaming to it’s limits like Hideo Kojima. All the ps3 exclusives seem to get 9+ ratings and MS just cant compete with that in the long run.

The 360 has a very succesfull launch with all of their succesfull franchises making an appearance on the 360 real early. But right now they to have run out of steam. Everybody is complaining why MS hardly announced anything for 2009, while Sony is just warming up.

In the end it is all about the games and MS just doesnt have the exclusive franchises and first party support Sony has build in over 2 decades. Personally I am more worries about Ms then about Sony. MS seems to be kind of lost at the moment. They cant compete with Sony’s first party support and exclusives and now it seems they are focussing more on casual gaming. If they were smart they would go back to their pc roots.

By: Bloodymess

Bloodymess — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:39:21 +0000

The only thing Sony can do is lower its price and hope that enough consoles are sold so they can make the money back with software. Because if an Xbox 3 really does come out 2011 with backwards and forwards compatibility Sony as a game developer is doomed.

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By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:47:09 +0000

Yeah no blue ray are you dumb every game is made is blue ray.. lol and they are not going to be able to compete with the wii sorry the ps2 just will not work no matter what you do with it. the only thing i can see is if sonny actually made a wii like controller and games but not for sure how that would work.. Nintendo was pretty smart it doing what they did they couldn’t beat sony and xbox so they made something totally different that grabs people who don’t even play consoles. I know people who have one who never even though about and xbox 360 or ps3

By: Manoj

Manoj — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:34:38 +0000

Well the reason why sony didn’t lower the price tag was that they were already loosing money on every PS3 console being sold for 399$.

Wii-43mn-2006
360-26.4mn-2005
PS3-18.8mn-2006

This doesn’t mark the end of the console’s battle race at all with 360 and also Wii. Well the ideal pricing would be in the range from 320-350$ to enter the competition. And a higher number of exclusives (atleast 3-4 titles) in the first quarter of 2009 will add momentum.

The PS2 had a lesser extent of slow start of 6.5 million by end of 2000 and it shot up to 49 mn in 2002 end aided by great exclusives. This means that somewhere during 2009 end or early 2010 end there can be same magic of tremendous boosting of sales upto 45-50 mn aided by exclusives and ground breaking PS Home feature.

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By: phil

phil — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:08:52 +0000

If sony wants to succeed they need to bring the white ps3 to america

By: Abu

Abu — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:06:41 +0000

They need to lower the price.If they lower the price it would sell out quick.They also need to market the right games. Instand of marketing Killzone 2, they market playstation home which was stupid.To appeal to casual gamers they should add the old playstation 1 or 2 games like Pryo,or Crash for 5 or 10 dollars in the plastation network.

By: K. Jordan

K. Jordan — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:46:01 +0000

What ever happened to selling great games? Back when the first Playstation was introduced, it had a slew of great games. The system was incredible, but the games are what sold me on buying the system. Games like Teken, Wipeout, Ridge Racer, & ESPN Extream Sports, just to name a few. Now we have the PS3. It’s an awsome system, and a great blu-ray player, but where are all the great games that make the Playstation a Playstation. When did game makers loose their creativity? I’m not saying that there arn’t any good games out there, but if you have this great system start putting some thought into making a great game. I’m a 40 year old gamer who looks for quality in my games and I have quite a colection of games from PS1 to PS3. When I saw games like SSX I had to get the PS2. I was sold on that one game. I want games that I can play with my kid, my wife, the 3 of us together, and games that I can play by myself. Let’s face it, Sony’s Playstation is hurting, not because of the systems price, but the lack of good, quality, ORIGINAL, first party games that made the playstation stand out from all the rest. Quality games means more systems selling. The more games you sell, the more your profits go up, the more people want to buy the PS3 to play the game. The blu-ray is a great feature. I’m not knocking it. The DVD player was a great feature for the PS2, but by returning the focus to making great games should always take priorty. I love my PS3. To me, it’s the best system out there in my opinon. Putting more thought into games that not only adults can play, but kids and even the casual gamers can play, can help the PS3 dominate over Nintendo like it has done in years previous. That’s my $.02 and I’m sticking to it.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:09:15 +0000

I think you are retarded. Do you know anything about the PS3? It would become non-functional if they removed the blu-ray drive. All of the games are on blu-ray format and for good reason. Sony put games on blu-ray for a reason, ITS NOT JUST FOR MOVIES! Sony did it to provide true high definition gaming through HDMI. Only sony offers full 1080p resolution. The whole point for HDMI is to transfer a un-compressed signal. With bluray they dont need to compress game data because they have more storage on the disc. All 360 games are compressed and offer only upscaled 1080p which really isnt 1080p at all. 360 has HDMI but its useless because all 360 games are compressed which basically contradicts why HDMI was invented. And it doesnt have any native 1080p games anyway so it doesnt even matter on 360, 360 hdmi is a gimmick. Anyway back on topic the only way I see sony dropping the price is if they make it smaller in overall size when the new 45nm chipset is released next year which uses almost half the power of the current 65nm, They could go with a small external power supply removing the internal one, They could rouglhly decrease size by 60 percent, box it up smaller and send more on one palette when shipping, this would save a lot on shipping. Not to mention the money in materials they would save making it more compact. They may even could go as faas removing wifi, because any true online gamer knows it needs to be hard wired for optimal performance.

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By: Gadget Sleuth

Gadget Sleuth — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:56:05 +0000

Two things they can do: More quality games, and a cheaper price. For $149-199, i’d think about getting one. For $300-400, no way in the world. Not enough content to justify it, especially with BR prices the way they are.