PS3 price cut coming soon??

[HappySqurriel]

Christopher_G2 said: Um there are a few morons on these boards and others I've seen that are definetly calling this over for Sony. I'm no Sony fanboy, but console races are long drawn out cycles. To me it's very hard to predict how the PS3 will due long term because we've never had the most dominant name in video games put out an expensive and very technolically heavy system system like the PS3. Obviously price cuts will be important, but at most I see a $50 price cut this year. Sony will accept third place for the forseable future, hope it closes the gap in monthly sales between the other two, and probably try to make a killing in 2008 with more major price cuts, and hyped up marketing over a lineup that will probably be mcuh better than what we get in 2007.

People who are saying it is over for sony are doing so because the strategy you mentioned simply can not work... Suppose Sony finished 2007 with a total userbase of 8 Million units, while the XBox 360 and Wii finish with 16 to 20 Million units each; the result of this would be that most publishers which focused on the North American or European markets would be forced to target either the Wii or XBox 360, for the Japaneese (or worldwide) market they would be forced to target the Wii. What happens to a system when all it gets are ports from other systems and very little exclusive attention from third parties? That's right it stops selling ...