| Seihyouken said: ... Secondly, there was no price cut in 2008 [for the PS3], I'm not sure how you don't know this. Lastly, 360 had a lot of bad publicity *cough*RROD*cough* back in early 2008 after an underperforming holiday season too. That certainly didn't keep the 360 from coming around, did it?
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The 360 came around after dropping the price to the sub-$200 dollars level and opened a major pricing gap with the PS3.
Without a price drop Sony will struggle to get to 8M sold for the year. It is clear that a price cut is not in the cards any time soon. My money is on no price cut for the year, but perhaps a newer model (and a fire sale of the old ones). But the $400 price point will stick around for a long time. Sony simply must start making some money in the gaming division.
And for the optimists: Even if there will be a price cut it will not touch the $200 range and it will be accompanied by a parallel cut by Microsoft so the effect of the cut will be neutralized.
Prediction made on 11/1/2008:
Q4 2008: 27M xbox LTD, 20M PS3 LTD . 2009 sales: 11M xbox, 9M PS3
