You're right about the 840. I thought it was closer to 900 but had to go back and check.

And your revisions is exactly my point. Sony is taking the chips down to 45nm now. If they can save 400 dollars by those revisions Im fairly positive Sony can save at least enough to make 100 dollar drop. I mean the taking away BC would cost less than 150 dollars. The price of a whole Ps2 was 150 dollars and Sony made profit from each one, and a whole Ps2 was not in the Ps3. So sony can easily drop the chips to 45nm and make another MOBO revision to scrounge up for a cut.

Next week, Pachter will buy a calculator, and take back this statement. I wonder if he gets free broken calculators.

They can and will only cut the price with a significant hardware redesign that saves considerably on production costs (PSThree) or alternately to clear out inventory in front of said revised product release, similar to the original 60GB "sale" prior to its replacement by the original 80GB model.

So yes, Sony can absolutely afford a price drop given a significant reduction in production cost.

So which of you who are making all these assumptions and predictions actually WORK for Sony?

What does working for Sony have to do with knowing for a fact their prices will drop?

If your 'fact' is just that as a system gets older, the price drops, duh. BUT people here are trying to make predictions with absolutely zero basis to make them off of. Personally I could care less, I already have my PS3 so the price drop does absolutely nothing for me.

Ah... I didn't know a CEO confirming a price drop was zero basis. My mistake.

Again, that refers to the whole 'duh' situation. Of course there will be a price drop, EVENTUALLY.

The CEO was responding to the 13 million target. Only way they'll make that is with a price drop before Christmas.