PS4's Price Appeal

When a new console is about to hit the market, price is always one of the very first things that comes to mind. For the majority of consumers, it doesn't exactly matter how great the graphics look if you're going to have to take out a loan and sell your first born child to afford it. If only Sony had realized this in the beginning of the PS3 era where the high $599 price tag lead to an initially slow adoption rate for the console. What about the PS4? Could Sony be in for making the same mistake twice?

If you asked Sony Worldwide Studio's VP Michael Denny, he would be inclined to say no. With their next generation system, he claims "that we listen and learn and take the judgement from every console launch we ever have and we have to be informed" about, while learning from those kinds of past errors. He says that unlike the last system which was set towards only the most hardcore sector "we have created a console absolutely focused on gamers--and we want that to be gamers in the broadest sense as well. I think to some extent I can ask you to draw your own conclusions."

So what conclusions can we draw? Will Sony offer a heavily subsidized configuration much like we now see with the 360, or will the machine just be cheap outright? What price do you think we could see for PS4?

Source: http://www.dashhacks.com/ps4/ps4-news/ps4s-price-will-appeal-to-the-broad-sense-gamer.html