Sony Expects Vid Game Losses to Continue

The PS3 is just TOO expensive to the average consumer. Way too expensive. For the price Sony are asking for it, everyone knows they could get a brand new PC with a heap of other features. It's ridiculous.

There is absolutely no other reason why people are not buying it more. The consumers have reached a price breaking point about items such as these and are saying in their masses. NO MORE!

Sony, stop trying to rob us of every Dollar, Euro, whatever, you can get out of us. We will just move on and buy another console instead that is cheaper. ...oop's, maybe thats' what happened with the Wii...I wonder!

Doh!

Sure the PS3 may be a bit more expensive than the rest of the consoles but that's not the problem. They need more games. Everyone knows that money is made in the games. Sony might actually be better off giving the console away and then watch the cash role in from game sales.

Parents have been shelling out for the games at prices they are now, for a while. Sure they grumble at the prices of them every time but they ever time too, pay the asking price eventually.

I hear fellow parents consistently giving out to me over the price of this console. They look at the price of the PS3 and compare it to a good PC, and within a second, there is no competition. To say the price of the PS3 is not the problem is just wrong. Ask any parent at a child birthday or at Christmas what are they going to get one big expensive toy or a number of items including a Wii or other cheaper console.

I myself would love to get a PS3 but the price of it is putting me off. Sure I buy games at their expensive price, we all do eventually but if if the basic console is at such a ridiculous asking price (that we all know we are getting ripped off), just out of protest as well as saving the guts of a weekly wage, parents will not touch it with a barge pole ...and this is what has happened.

Across America and Europe after the initial first few days of launch, after the die-hards got their machines, others made up their minds at the doors of the shops when they also saw the crazy asking price. Remember - at the end of the day, it is one one toy/gift/console and because most can only afford so much to shell out in gifts or luxuries, a one large payout is less liked then a number of smaller ones.
I would rather have a number of items under the Christmas tree than just one miserable expensive gift on it's own and I'm sure every other parent feels the same way.

Not for one second has the price of actual games put me off buying the PS3, just the basic price of this item.
We, the consumer, have voted with our wallets and direction of feet - we are walking away from this too expensive luxury. Sony is too pompously blind to see this so far. They thought they could push us further over the price limit on these consoles, the response was a resounding "NO!"