| markers said: i can see a price drop coming, either another $100 or $50. when you ask i see this coming? well for some reason i see a suprise announcement of the price drop in october or if we dont see one this holiday season they will save it for the following. yeah yeah maybe a cliche predicition but its coming. reason being? more 1st party software sales will make up from the price cut and they will still make money. im sure sony will not have anymore profit lose from now on. i could be wrong yes, but this is my opinion and until im proven wrong by "The numbers" im gonna stick to this :p |
Considering the 80GB for $400 pretty much negates the likelihood of another price cut of any kind I think you're stretching a bit here. Sony can't afford to simply just lose the same money on a price cut this year as they did last year when things looked their worst for the PS3. Now that their sales are acceptable for the PS3's survival, whether maintaining second place or not, there's not the same desperation Sony had last year this time to save the PS3.
And no, 1st party software sales are not making up for the losses, its kind of a well know fact that the whole "software sales make up for hardware losses" doesn't apply terribly well to the HD consoles. It seems the bulk of your logic relies heavily on self assumed facts and dated principles.
