PS3 price drop may suprises us all?

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rubido said:

KBG29 said:
This is obviously a subject that has been brought up many times, but it nearly always leads to Sony having three options;

1. $100 price drop early in the year.
2. $50 price drop early, with another $50 coming around september.
3. $100 price drop held off until Q3.

 

Actually, they have many more options. As scottie mentioned, they can also have no price cut or a smaller price cut totaling $30-$50 during the year. They can also introduce a new sku with even less features (removing wi-fi and ... I don't know, I don't have a ps3) and selling this for $350.

Sony's situation is the most interesting to look at this year and I still think Sony can surprise us all with something really unexpected. So I'm not taking any guess at this, but I would put many, MANY options on the table if I thought about it. Those are very limited and I see a $100 price cut during this year on the current sku's as unlikely.

The problem with this kind of argument is that there's really not much which can be cut from the PS3... Most of the potential cutting back already happened when Sony removed backwards compatibility chips.

From several similar threads that I read, Wifi and USB ports are about the only candidates, and those things are probably among the cheapest components. Sony already had a model without wi-fi which got discontinued.