The Reality behind a PS3 Slim

[jake_the_fake1]

PS3 slim + same price = boost in sales since it's the new thing, just like the PSP-to-PSP slim and DS-to-DS slim.

This also has the nice effect of being cheaper to manufacture, so Sony at this stage should not only have broken even but they could even be making a profit on the hardware, which then allows them to have an ace up their sleeve...and that is a price cut when sales start to slow.

I also believe that the PS3 slim even with a $100 price cut should allow Sony to continue to break even but at a lower to razer thin profit margin on hardware, which at the moment they don't seem to have as there still losing money.

So, I predict the following happening in this order:-

1: Firmware 3.0 announced/released with PS2 backwards compatibility which may/may not PS3 slim specific along with some rare classic PS2 download service.

2: PS3 slim announced and released near the holiday season, Christmas bundles made available with 1 or 2 packed in games and perhaps a blu-ray specific edition as well.

3: $50-$100 price cut around March which may coincide with the release of God of war 3, they could push it as a system seller.

This should allow Sony to boost PS3 sales as well as allow sony to stop losing money and even start making profit.
Now allot of people think that a price cut will come 1st, but with out the PS3 slim to absorb the price cut, they'll be losing more money which is something they don't want todo.
So logically speaking you'd want to release the slim so that when a price cut hits it absorbs it and Sony doesn't lose more money but between when the slim is released and the price cut is done Sony will be raking in the profit.
Right now however Sony is just going to deny or ignore PS3 slim rumours so that retail stock of current PS3 dry up so that they again minimise loss, great strategy I reckon if what I said actually turns out to be at least 80%-100% correct