It's not just a matter of changing with the market. Why should any consumers buy a PS3 now? All those people buying PS3s now are buying inferior controllers to the ones that will be released in a few months. Will they decide to add/remove another feature in a couple months and discontinue all old SKUs (they've discontinued two SKUs already)?
Are they alienating consumers who bought a PS3 with no rumble for $599 when 14 months later a person can buy a console with rumble for $399? At the very least, it's not going to win them any fans by screwing over those customers because they made such a gigantic misjudgement of the market (and acted INCREDIBLY cocky about it). If they had been less arrogant at the time, maybe I would feel different...I know I'd be quite bitter if I was an early buyer.
It's a bit hard to swallow the idea that they're changing with the market when 11 months ago they were so quick to tell the market what it should want.
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It's not just a matter of changing with the market. Why should any consumers buy a PS3 now? All those people buying PS3s now are buying inferior controllers to the ones that will be released in a few months. Will they decide to add/remove another feature in a couple months and discontinue all old SKUs (they've discontinued two SKUs already)?
Are they alienating consumers who bought a PS3 with no rumble for $599 when 14 months later a person can buy a console with rumble for $399? At the very least, it's not going to win them any fans by screwing over those customers because they made such a gigantic misjudgement of the market (and acted INCREDIBLY cocky about it). If they had been less arrogant at the time, maybe I would feel different...I know I'd be quite bitter if I was an early buyer.
It's a bit hard to swallow the idea that they're changing with the market when 11 months ago they were so quick to tell the market what it should want.