As I said before, it all comes down to whether Sony think the software will cover the hardware losses. I will be utterly shocked if a price cut does not occur in Japan during the release of FFXIII and EU for GT5.
Looking at the numbers, it really does look like one game ala GT5 can take the EU region from the 360. FFXIII, GT5 and further multi-plat titles will murder the 360 in Japan.
NA is an interesting region though since one game cannot cause a huge hardware surge. NA sells so much software the big wigs at Sony must be clutching their fists knowing they are losing so many software sales.
For a consumer such as myself a $100 price cut by years end in all three years seems a given and nothing more. The first party titles would benefit greatly from a spike in hardware sales and with each game release that would cause another spike in sales.
PS2 got a price cut but come on, that must still be making Sony a huge deal of money. PSP was making money from the start and the new sku coming in should boost sales, then all these games are releasing on the system.
Either way it will be interesting to see what happens, for many the price is the issue with the PS3, a good situation for Sony to be in knowing that the console has large appeal.
