The PS3 has officially been launched in Korea. What is crazy is that for some reason Sony felt the need to give them more machine for less money.
The units sold in Korea feature an 80GB hard drive, wait a second, haven’t people been complaining that Sony should release an 80GB model here in the states? Maybe they think that the Koreans wouldn’t bother buying a system with a smaller hard drive. If that’s the case they must just think we’re too stupid to care.
If that’s not bad enough, the price for one of the 80GB consoles is only around $558. So they get a bigger hard drive and pay less, thanks for that Sony. I guess you just think we’re stupid Americans, we’ll pay outrageous prices for anything. Well think again, your console is being outsold month after month by the competition over here. Maybe if you’d consider upgrading the hard drive and dropping the price people might buy one.
Read it if you care after the jump. [via joystiq]
3 comments:
Dude, overseas sales are what made Sony the top seller. North America is a harder market for them to make money in and is smaller. But in Asia, they have a huge share of the market from brand loyalty and lack of XBOX penetration. Don't you think that they would charge less in a market that would ensure units would sell?
Sony made a killing with the PS2 in America. And they still are reaping benefits from sales here to this day. The PS3 wouldn't have had a tough time in the U.S. if it had just come in at a decent price point. I know that they're not moving a lot of units in Japan also, most likely due to the price point. They had a huge brand loyalty here in America too, until recently.
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