Open Plea: Sony, please drop the PS3’s price, the industry needs it

[Destroyer_of_knights]

Cypher1980 said:

piningforthefjords said:

Squilliam said:
The industry needs the PS3 the least of all the consoles right now. If all PS3s went poof today it would cause the least hardship.

Why aren't there articles begging Nintendo for a price cut? Im sure it'd to the industry more good than a PS3 price cut.

Exactly. It seems as if Sony has overstayed its welcome. They're like the Brett Favre of video games.

Sony's only problem with killing the PS3 off would be the huge backlash from the fanbase.

There would be an understandable lack of trust for any future consoles from Stable Sony

As much as all the DEVS and the SONY shareholders may be thankful to be rid of the PS3 SONY cannot afford to tarnish its reputation by quitting before it 10 year plan is up and it cannot fiscally afford a proper price drop at the moment.

I expect the PS3 to be nursed gently into its retirement home in third place and for SONY PR to kick in and label the whole thing a worthwhile endeavour.

Predictions :-

1. THE PS4 will be the first true Next Gen console to launch. It will not use Teh C3LL

2. There will be a token price drop in Q4 on the old style PS3

3. The PS3 slim will launch in Oct with a hefty premium price tag offset by a well thought out bundle.

I disagree, Sony will use Cell for the simple reason that it would be cheaper, allow for easy backwards compatability, and because they invested so much money and time creating tools and technology for CELL that dumping it all together would be a waste of that R&D as well as pissing off publishers who they themselvs have invested into CELL R&D, continuing CELL however will allow 3rd party developers to leverage all the previous R&D and it would be easy for them to make games since they know the hardware rather than having to learning things again if things changed.