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by sliverstorm 5332 days ago
On the other hand, there is a limited pool of potential customers in this world. If you have a pool of 100, better to sell 10x for $10 today than 100x for $1. In the first scenario, you have 90 more customers to pursue tomorrow. In the second, you either need to make a new unrelated product with a new purpose or different audience (ex. Sony), expand your audience (Nintendo + Wii) or invalidate/depreciate the old one (Apple) to secure any more sales.

Edit: I forgot, there is also, extend your product (DLC)