Optimism can be a dangerous beast. We need not look far to get a good parallel for what will happen. We saw it just a few months ago in North America. Further more Europe is not getting the cherry of a deal the North American consumer got. They are not even getting it in a good context. This new sku and price drop are coming at a economically conservative time of year. Further more they are dropping in the middle of a Microsoft steam roller. Finally there are legitimate concerns about the viability of the platform and the hardware. Were there a time for consumers to be skeptical about the PS3 in Europe that time would be now.
I see a lot of posters being overly, and often being unrealistically optimistic. Many of them found a meat grinder at the end of the Sony bundle offer. Many of them found a barren wasteland a month after the price cut in North America. While price is a issue, and might hold some consumers off of making a purchase. There are other concerns, and this new sku only multiplies those concerns. Sony still has to sell this to consumers. We cannot adopt a philosophy that the consumers are already sold. You have to ask yourself what would make a person want to buy a PS3 now rather then waiting a few months or even a year if price has been such a issue for them up until this point.
All the issues I raised are valid questions, and this is not a time such as the summer where these things can be viewed in a vacuum. What the other guys do has a significant impact on whether the sales increase rapidly, stay the same, or decrease. Someone has to put a lead weight on the balloon of expectations. Too often this year these heightened expectations have fizzled out. I suspect because people getting their hopes up did not ask the hard questions.
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