stof, that's a great way to put it. 

on another note,  whenever i see pointless arguements, i just want to leave the forum.  :P

 How could you forget "WAR SONY"?

damn thats called "people skills"...

Nintendo has this price war in the bag! According to EAGames/Sega in 2005 they said that a 175USD price point would gain Nintendo substantial profit. They stated that the price of 170USD was likely going to be Nintendo's final price-point for the Wii. Nintendo said under 300$ and we got a console that sells for 275CDN. If Nintendo would have been turning a profit at 175USD then they are really turning a huge profit at 250USD. This means Nintendo can afford to take hardware losses later on allowing them to drop their hardware price by 2011 below the 100USD mark.

Microsoft's stance in this war is pretty decent, Microsoft had announced they have returned to profitability with their 360 Premium hardware. Indicating a drop in manufacturing costs that is going to help them alot in the short term. Essentially this gives Microsoft the ability to drop their prices a bit. Some like me believe after Elite is launched the core unit could go as low as 299$ competing with the Wii this fall.

Sony has left no room for any logical price cut. Sony was last said to be loosing around 300USD on every single unit. Since they have removed an emulation chip and are working really hard to bring down the manufacturing costs. Sony discontinued their 20-gig platform so they could focus more resources on the 60-gig model. If Sony does cut its price this year or at any point this generation it will likely be a last move. When Sony is so desperate that their willing to take even larger losses to keep the PlayStation brand in tact they will likely cut the price of the PS3 lower.

By 2011, I expect we'll see Wii around 169.99USD , 360 around 199.99USD and PS3 around 299.99USD. Essentially Sony will be forced to cut prices or die, at the moment they have to sell tons of games to make up for their hardware losses that number is only going to keep growing!

Sony should just go for broke, and sponsor a price cut for the Samsung blu-ray player to get the selling price below the $399 toshiba model. I keep saying it, but the $2-$4 liscencing fees that come from each BR DVD sold, will have no work involved.  Its all gravy, and sony doesn't need no diet. 

If they did that all the other hardware companies on board with BR would jump ship and Sony would wind up with Betamax 2.0. Samsung has already fired a warning at Sony by announcing the hybrid BR/HD-DVD player.

Samsung is sony's major producer of blu-ray players, as I doubt that LG's $1200(blu-ray and HDVD) player is moving many units at all, so your first point is incorrect, as they don't even have any power if they ain't movin units, bud..   Your second point of samsung's loyalty is also incorrect.  Samsung is merely its wealthiest clients play both sides, so that no matter who wins, samsung wins.

Lets see ...after the last data of this page(february 2007 ) PSP has sold in NA some 30 million games and 7.78 million consoles .THe DS has sold some 42 million games for 11 million consoles .The ratios are 3.85 for the PSP and 3.81 for the DS .....I dont see the PSP ratio as very bad .Issue is that the bulk of the DS sales are 3-4 Nintendo games that appear in the top ten and create an impression ,but as far as ratio go they are even ,the PSP even edges out the DS for some margin .Having so  many users that buy the machine solely for Nintendogs and BT has some of these aftereffects .And in Europe the situation is more or less the same .THe only place where PSP and specially its software sells really poorly compared to DS is Japan where the ratios are 2-1 for the DS .And thats having in count the PSP suffers from some massive piratery ,and the PS3 wont suffer that for quite some time ...

You just said it, they are playing both sides whereas before they were only playing one side.

No ,nor do you .In fact I think I am pretty right ,the PS3 right now only appelas to certain demographics ,the Wii to much more .The succesive price drops may open the Wii some reducts but will win the PS3 the entry into the mass market the Wii is already into ,and once that is managed with its far superior hardware ,peripherics ,software (system sellers for hardcore and for casuals through the Eye Toy ,Dance Dance Rev ,Singstar ,Buzz ! ,kiddie games ,Platinum Range ) and the marketing of Sony behind sales will improve and it has a lot more of room for it .