Will PS3 have a successful year in 2009?

[NJ5]

Snake612 said:
@NJ5, thats why i said i understand them not having a price cut. However, when you really look at it, they have to have one in 2009. Them not having a price cut only keeps them behind in sales week after week. They won't go bankrupt but at the same time they won't make much money. They fo have some good titles being released next year. hopefully one of them will sell more than 1 million first week worldwide. Only, MGS4 has done that and it was worldwide release.

You're talking about a 25% price cut on top of currencies which are declining around 20%. Unless the latter problem disappears, that would imply a 40% reduction in PS3 hardware revenue from one year to the next, on a product which wasn't profitable in the first place.

Frankly I think that would be suicide, so they won't do it unless things get better on the factors which are out of their control. Saying "they have to do it" doesn't convince me. It's better to lose the console race than to lose billions more during uncertain times.