THQ CEO places doubt on PS3 price cut at E3

finally u get a good pic man no homo :O

WTF???

No ?s needed. That's a definite WTF.

"WTF" is definitely in the form of a question, so it warrants the question marks. I just can't think of a good answer to it. I guess, "Yes, the F" probably doesn't cut it.

I swear before Lord that I get MORE comments about my pics than anyone else...

My question about his photo would be why its only the top half of his head? Is he hiding triple chins and a mouth filled with gold/platnium cavities like the Saints Row 2 ad :P:D?

thats cause thats how the images system on here decided to crop it...

and I hope that "grills" comment wasnt because I'm black...

You're playing the race card? That's so racist!

Sales numbers are very important to all the five people who bought a Zune.

"¤%#¤%"#&" i hate replying to the wrong person

expect to eat them words

Source or GTFO...

ROFLMAO!!!

The 360 is going to have to drop the ELITE model to $299 in order to OUTSELL a $299 PS3...COUNT on it...

I remember them saying that too, but its not going to happen, unless they mean support like the PS1 got support.

http://www.videogamer.com/news/xbox_360_lifespan_to_be_one_day_longer_than_ps3s.html

theres ur link

zune is the shits not the shit, the shits (when you really need a shit badly thats the shits just for clarification)..

Yes Microsoft does talk a lot of shit we are all aware of this fact.

I'm not gonna lie
I have a zune and it is the shit :]

dunno where all the zune talk came from but hell I loved my Zune30 up until it died on me last December 31st last year....sure it was replaced for free but that and the fact that I bought my wife a Zune16 and the backlight went out in under 3 months still hurt my faith in the Zune Brand...something tells me that I will still get a Zune250 if they release one

my Zune80 has been kickin since last May. no problems except that last firmware update that made it freeze up when i changed the song with 10secs or less. other than that, couldnt be happier with it.

But then, if people are expecting a price cut, they are going to hold onto their money. The money is in the licensing, not the machines themselves...

Unless you're Nintendo of course.

Exactly, that's why I haven't purchased a PS3 as of yet, I own both a Wii and an 360 (got the 360 arcade at 200.00 new 6 months before the price drop).

That's the fun of it, their sales are lagging, so the market dictates that they price cut.

Exactly. The market dictates that the price needs for it to be lower for the sales to meet expectations. Don't go quoting numbers on me here, I don't care how many units it sold - the PS3 has not met expectations. Whether or not it's done poorly is a completely different matter.

I think a lower price could actually have long-term benefit for Sony in that they might be able to sell the PS3 on the blu ray player at a $300 price point, get a greater install base for blu ray (though I don't think it will catch on like DVD within the system's lifetime at least, but there's still room for expansion), and gain some game market sales in the process. Unfortunately for them, just as "Playstation" came to replace "Nintendo" as the word for a game console in the common (non-gaming) vocabulary, that has now been replaced by "XBox". It's going to take a lot to get that back. (Wii is sort of a different category, as many non-gamers actually know what it is - not a diss on the system, just a fact of life)

It'd kinda convert me.
I mean, I'd rep both consoles if I could finally afford a PS3.
And November would be a great time for a price drop (for me :D).

That all depends. If the company is "ok" with the slight loss on PS3s right now and if production becomes cheaper (due to redesigns or chip cost coming down) then it would serve that Sony might be "ok" with lowering the price in an effort to gain more market share while keeping the same (or better) margins on the PS3 hardware.

So, I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens.

The profit margin on a Ferrari is probably 10 times that of an Accord. You can't really compare the two. Same thing with the Wii and the PS3. Nintendo makes money on every Wii they sell, while both Sony and Microsoft lose money on the sale of their hardware systems.

The only way for Sony and Microsoft to make their consoles profitable are to have gamers buy games for the system. Each license is around $12 or so to MS or Sony. The difference between selling 100,000 copies and 1,000,000 copies is huge. The larger the install base, the better chance they have of selling more games. The only way for Sony to dramatically increase their install base at this point is to lower the price. The longer they wait to drop the price, the more money they'll continue to lose. If they don't announce a price drop for the PS3 at E3, I think Sony will run the risk of having to close their games division within the next 3 years.

I could be wrong, but virtually every publisher and analyst out there has been saying that Sony needs a price drop to stay competitive. In this economy they can't afford to continue hemorrhaging money the way they are, and the only way they can even come close to being profitable again is to sell more consoles. Definitely not going to happen with everyone waiting and expecting a price drop. I've been waiting for a year to buy a PS3 because I'm waiting on the price drop. I would have easily bought 5+ PS3 games by now. No way I'm the only one.

@ John Perkins

"I've been waiting for a year to buy the PS3. I would have easily bought 5+ games by now.

Well, that's your loss. Especially when you could have been enjoying the damn thing for a year or more, and easily more than the five games you mentioned. Plus Blu-ray capability (I'm assuming here that you don't have a standalone Blu-ray player and that you do have an HDTV). This concept is not a new one. New technology is always more expensive than when it's a few years old, but the benefit is that you get to enjoy it longer. I paid $500 for my 60GB PS3 when I bought it in November 2007, and I wouldn't regret it for an instant even if Sony lowered the price of the PS3 to $300 tomorrow. We Joystiq readers know about hardware launches and prices six months to a year ahead of the fact. We have time to save money and there's no use bitching about it.

I have to ask, is Blazblue going to be better on the PS3. Because I hear a lot of people saying they will get it for that, or it just personal preference.

Rob

Probably a couple of factors. I'm sure the pathetic excuse for a d-pad on the 360 to go along with a nice back catalogue all factors into the decision.

Rob: Also, besides what was previously mentioned about BlazBlue, the limited edition PS3 version comes with a bonus Bluray instead of the 360's DVD. Not only is the bonus content in HD, but the overall blue-ness of the set is a nice effect, and I'm being only half sarcastic.

So you'd buy a PS3 at the current price point if it was a smaller machine?

Still, I think I would like to keep my PS2 instead of saving one hundred dollars on a PS3

I did the same for a 60GB PS3 when they had the same kind of deal 2 years ago. Now I almost regret it...

Sprinkles???

I hope you fall off a building.
You biasing one console over another console is sin.
and BTW your post is irrelevant to anything about a price cut.