Price cut? How useful is that?

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ultraslick said:
the holiday rush combined with the price drop effect, (especially in Europe, where it will be the equivilant of a $200 price drop) will increase sales through Jan. then Q1 and Q2 will be huge for sony, as most of their big exclusives will be dropping.
It is hard to say if sales will ever "stabilize" to a number comparable to the current sales. IMO they will stabilize in mid 2009, at a much much higher number than the current sales.
But that is a very hard question to answer, before it was just a price drop.
Now there is a price drop followed by waves of games, which was not true before.

 Mid 2009?

You do realize that stabilization is when the console drops to a rate of sales at which it does not vary hugely, your saying that the PS3 is going to be dropping constantly until mid 2009?

 

Anyway, I think that after the holidays it will stabilize at a comparable number to now. Basically the same people who would buy it for $400 after the holidays will be the same people before the holidays, I don't see this price drop having a permanent effect.