Danyone seriously believe a PS3 $100 price cut will happen this year?

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NJ5 said:

That's not the idea I got from this article a while ago:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/wii-price-to-rise-for-uk-trade

They mention retailer margins even though the article is talking about hardware. It's probably a much smaller margin than for software and accessories though.

 

Could possibly be that the margin of profit is very very small and if they did the 5% over what they paid deal you would end up paying more.

I wasn't sure if it was exactly the same price but either way the profit margins on console is probably very very small. I was only going on what I knew and what I know is that those do not fall under the employee discount because if they did discount it, it would cause them to actually lose money.

Even with employee discounts these companies still want make profit on those items. I know a lot of Sony products end up this way, not sure about Nintendo, which seems like what that article was aimed at.

I have yet to see a high end Sony product that falls under the employee discount plan. Samsung, Sharp, Insignia (duh...) are all bought for far less than that they sell them for, but Sony products tend to be sold for barely higher than the price the retailer paid.

 

Sometimes I wish she still worked there, that way I could know exactly what each console costs to Bestbuy.