Instead having the HD-DVD player so the cost would be $300 - $500 instead of $499 to $599. Poor marketing if you ask me.
Because if they had done that the competition would be way greater between the 360 and the ps3, but the Ps3 would have won with it's 1080p resolution and a built in HD-DVD player
2007-03-23 02:45:04 · 6 answers · asked by Drick 3 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Games & Gear
From a manufacturing standpoint, yes. The main reason the PS3 did and is doing so bad was the launch fiasco, brought on by the shortage of parts for and the inability to get the blu ray player to function properly quickly.
The blatant lies of Sony did not help and still are not helping the situation as the lose more and more of the exclusivity contracts for games due to the low number of consoles sold.
Claiming a million units by Xmas 2006 and only producing around 200,000 was a huge blunder. Sony also states that the PS3 is still flying off the shelves when in fact you can go into just about any store that sells video games and see dozens of them collecting dust.
Without some of the past exclusives that Sony has had (grand theft auto, Devil May Cry.....etc) I see no reason to spend 600 bucks on this thing. Even if there was no HD player in it, the cost would be the same because they would still be losing money on each unit sold.
Sony's problems were all brought on by extremely poor management of the company, nothing new there.
By the way, the 360 released a patch via xbox live and will now output 1080p and the new black version being released in April this year will have a 120 gb hard drive and and hdmi output.
2007-03-23 03:48:09 · answer #1 · answered by Steve 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude the HD-DVD player WOULDN'T have made it cheaper. Actually would have made it COST MORE. Toshiba, I believe, is behind HD-DVD. SONY is BEHIND Blu-Ray. This is THEIR technology. How would using someone else's technology save them money? Sometimes I wish people would learn more details if they want to make crazy claims. For the record IF you get the HD-DVD Add-On the Xbox 360 is the SAME PRICE as a PS3. If you want to say they would have been better off without the new technology and just stuck with DVD, yeah they would have saved money. They probably would have been better off that way. On the other hand they are doing their job of trying to promote their product I guess.
2007-03-23 10:31:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Sony needed the edge that is Blu Ray. Otherwise, people wouldn't be buying it just because it has a Blu Ray disk reader/player and it is cheaper than a regular Blu Ray 'machine'.
2007-03-23 09:49:56 · answer #3 · answered by Rioter 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sony developed blue ray! they want the format to take off so they can rake in the bucks from royalties and such and the easiest way to get it out there? Put it into their next gen console. The dead UMD format a prime example, sony motivated by greed who would have thunk it!
2007-03-23 10:24:41 · answer #4 · answered by adam p 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sony is really going down hill lately, they kill off there Robot pets, (which where doing great) and go to the PS3 which is sucking. Just from what I have seem...
as for Blu Ray... What a crock. Nobody wants it!!
2007-03-23 09:55:54 · answer #5 · answered by Mike E 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
reminds me of betamax
2007-03-23 10:06:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋