Kev
10-29-2008, 01:05 AM
Sony spoke to VideoGamer (http://www.videogamer.com/news/28-10-2008-9778.html) yesterday and confirmed that they will not be dropping the price of of the Playstation 3.
When asked if Sony was feeling any pressure to cut the price of the PS3 in time for Christmas, Maguire replied: "Well the pressure comes from the consumers obviously and so therefore there's always pressure on price, but you know we have a business to run, and we have to make sure we're doing the right thing for the shareholders as well.
"At the moment there's a marketplace for PS3 and I think for this particular Christmas, with the kind of quality of games we're seeing coming out this Christmas, I don't think the price of the console is going to be an issue at all."
Maguire said that sales of the PS3 in the UK were "absolutely on target", adding: "It's obviously selling extremely well in the UK and it's the third largest single territory in the world. In the UK it's absolutely on line. Obviously actual sell through is always relevant to price point. Now the price point we're at, with the features we've got, that we obviously have to charge for, it's absolutely on target."
This doesn't really affect me as I already have a PS3 but I think that they might be losing a lot of sales long term by not making the PS3 more competitive. By the sounds of it they are doing pretty well but come christmas I know a lot of parents will be considering the 360 because of it's low price.
A lot of my friends got the PS3 last year but in the last few months 3 of my friends who never had a system bought the 360 because of the price...both of the system and the number of back catalogue games you can pick up at bargain prices.
What do you think? Do you think Sony should reduce the price of the PS3?
When asked if Sony was feeling any pressure to cut the price of the PS3 in time for Christmas, Maguire replied: "Well the pressure comes from the consumers obviously and so therefore there's always pressure on price, but you know we have a business to run, and we have to make sure we're doing the right thing for the shareholders as well.
"At the moment there's a marketplace for PS3 and I think for this particular Christmas, with the kind of quality of games we're seeing coming out this Christmas, I don't think the price of the console is going to be an issue at all."
Maguire said that sales of the PS3 in the UK were "absolutely on target", adding: "It's obviously selling extremely well in the UK and it's the third largest single territory in the world. In the UK it's absolutely on line. Obviously actual sell through is always relevant to price point. Now the price point we're at, with the features we've got, that we obviously have to charge for, it's absolutely on target."
This doesn't really affect me as I already have a PS3 but I think that they might be losing a lot of sales long term by not making the PS3 more competitive. By the sounds of it they are doing pretty well but come christmas I know a lot of parents will be considering the 360 because of it's low price.
A lot of my friends got the PS3 last year but in the last few months 3 of my friends who never had a system bought the 360 because of the price...both of the system and the number of back catalogue games you can pick up at bargain prices.
What do you think? Do you think Sony should reduce the price of the PS3?