Is PS3’s Price Tag Too High For Its Own Good?

If you’re sick and tired of hearing more bad predictions about the PS3, you can skip this one. After all this is just a prediction  based on past market performances of game consoles. It could apply to the PS3 or then again maybe not. Anyways, Kristopher Adler analysed historical console sales and pricing, and he thinks the price of the Playstation 3 (around $599) may have lead to its downfall.

According to this console historian, units over $400 flopped with consumers while video game consoles in the $190 to $300 price range fared a lot better. Check out the price graph (right)  of the various game consoles from 1986 to the Age of the Xbox and compare them with how well they did in the market (graph on the left):

                  

The more expensive consoles 3DO, NeoGeo, Saturn and CD-i (all priced above $400) hardly registered on the sales radar. Meanwhile, sales champs NES had a $200 price tag while runners-up, PS and PS2, were  priced at $300. Although the figures presented support his prediction, it’s still worth considering that consumers now are very defferent from the consumers back then.

With more and more gamers getting tired with the usuals – paving the birth of next-gen consoles – it’s not immature to assume that they’ll go for a machine that has awesome power and specs giving it a wider possibility in game development; and PS3 is arguably the best console hardware-wise around.

Will the Curse of the $400+ Price Tag haunt PS3? We don’t know. History does repeat itself every now and then, but in a world where Marisa Tomei (“My Cousin Vinny”) won an Oscar over Judy Davis, Joan Plowright, Vanessa Redgrave and Miranda Richardson, anything could happen.

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If you’re sick and tired of hearing more bad predictions about the PS3, you can skip this one. After all this is just a prediction  based on past market performances of game consoles. It could apply to the PS3 or then again maybe not. Anyways, Kristopher Adler analysed historical console sales and pricing, and he thinks the price of the Playstation 3 (around $599) may have lead to its downfall.

According to this console historian, units over $400 flopped with consumers while video game consoles in the $190 to $300 price range fared a lot better. Check out the price graph (right)  of the various game consoles from 1986 to the Age of the Xbox and compare them with how well they did in the market (graph on the left):

                  

The more expensive consoles 3DO, NeoGeo, Saturn and CD-i (all priced above $400) hardly registered on the sales radar. Meanwhile, sales champs NES had a $200 price tag while runners-up, PS and PS2, were  priced at $300. Although the figures presented support his prediction, it’s still worth considering that consumers now are very defferent from the consumers back then.

With more and more gamers getting tired with the usuals – paving the birth of next-gen consoles – it’s not immature to assume that they’ll go for a machine that has awesome power and specs giving it a wider possibility in game development; and PS3 is arguably the best console hardware-wise around.

Will the Curse of the $400+ Price Tag haunt PS3? We don’t know. History does repeat itself every now and then, but in a world where Marisa Tomei (“My Cousin Vinny”) won an Oscar over Judy Davis, Joan Plowright, Vanessa Redgrave and Miranda Richardson, anything could happen.

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