Sony price cut news leak hurting PS3 holiday sales

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scottie said:
Generally, if a price cut has been confirmed by the company, the week before the price is cut the console sells about half what it otherwise would

4 months out, and Sony went out of their way to deny the rumour (and a rumour with no real basis)

This is not the cause of low PS3 sales

Can you point at an example of sales dropping by even half? I'll give one example of the opposite.

Japanese PS3 price drop announcement. Announced Oct 9 2007 to happen in Oct 17.

Here is the week the announcement was made in:

http://www.vgchartz.com/japweekly.php?date=39369&console=&maker=&disp=Japanese+Name&boxartz=1

The PS3 dropped by 5% only, and this was not a rumor or leak, it was an official announcement.