This is such a common question that people ask. I have had the same question on my FB page for five years now, and I am still asked it. I have answered it again and again, and this year I finally figured out what was going on. I have a sony psp sale.
The Sony PlayStation 2, or ps2, is the classic gaming console. The PS2 is the successor to the original Playstation, a console that came out in the early 1990s. The PS2 was a huge success, and it became the first commercially available console to be sold by Sony.
Like the Playstation, the PS2 was sold by Sony through a retail store. The advantage of this is that you could buy the ps2 for $40, or whatever you wanted. The disadvantage is that you could also buy one at a wholesale price. The wholesale price was $50. That was a bit of a bummer, but what sucks is that once you’d spent $50, you were stuck with it.
Sony has changed its pricing system several times over the years. The first time they tried to go over the wholesale price they were forced to sell the entire system at 50. When they did that, they were forced to sell it at 40. Finally in 2006 Sony did away with the wholesale price entirely. All they’ve ever done is sell the system at 40.
The change in pricing is a little confusing because Sony keeps changing the wholesale price on their system. It used to be that you couldn’t buy one at all until your account was at 50. Sony now states that you can buy one at 50 and an additional 40 for the system.
The wholesale price was never going to be high enough to compensate for the loss of the wholesale price and its many other features. Sony just didn’t want to let us buy our own system at 40. Now they are saying that theyre selling the entire system at 50 (this is a little unclear since I still have a system that I can play) and they are saying that we can buy the entire system at 40.
I think that this is just an attempt to drive up the price for the system. Sony is only selling the system at 40, but the wholesale price is still $350. If you think that the wholesale price is really that much, you should sell it at the retail price.
To be honest, I bought my PS3 at the same time I bought my psp. Now the problem with this is that I still have my psp, but I also have a ton of other software that I use that I cant play. If I buy the system at 40, I have to pay twice as much for software that I dont even use.
Thats like buying a new car and paying for both gasoline and the gas pedal.
The sad part is that the PS3 is actually a great value for people who have only a couple of games left in their collection and want to have a new machine that’s better for them. It’s not a replacement and you should still get a lot for it, but the PS3 is a good deal for people who have a lot of games and want to have a new computer that they can play on, but they want to see new games.