Well, Sony and Nintendo are doing a pretty good job of pissing of some of their consumers. Look at the added cost for the PS2's upcoming hard drive and modem add ons. And gee, isn't there a memory card shortage for PS2? I'm sure that wasn't fabricated by Sony to create a NEED for the hard drive or anything. Same with the Gamecube with its memory cards. They are so small that you need to buy multiple cards if you like sports games. And for the cost of them, you should get a WHOLE lot more memory.
My point is that I think that Sony and Nintendo are taking advantage of their fanatical fan base. Their customers are so loyal that they don't have to rewrd their loyalty, they can actually abuse it to push an inferior product (PS2 console only) for the same price as a product that is twice as powerful.
Sony only dropped its price because they knew that MS was going to drop the price of the XBox. Its that simple. Sony should have dropped the price when the XBox and Gamecube first appeared on the market. They didn't need to because of the fanatical support of their consumers, so they didn't.
And if anyone thinks that Sony didn't know M was dropping the price, you have no idea about the cloak and dagger stuff that goes on in big business. I do marketing for GlaxoSmithKline, a major pharmaceutical company, and you wouldn't believe the **** that goes around that office about other companies that we shouldn't know. Nothing like a little industrial espionage to keep things on an even keel.
Anyway, I guess I just believe that console companies that are as successful as Nintendo and Sony should give a little back to the consumer voluntarily instead of trying to soak them more. Idaelistic, ain't I?
