PS3 Slim another worst kept secret ?

[bobobologna]

Naraku_Diabolos said:

bobobologna said:

tedsteriscool said:
Oh and who thought of this: If they're offering PRE-ORDERS for a console, this slim will be huge. Don't pre-orders for consoles only happen before their initial launch due to high demand for the new sku?

 

It's preorders for stores, not for customers.  So stores have to preorder the console, most likely due to limited initial supply.

I'm predicting that the PS3 slim will retail for the current PS3 pricepoint while the older models get a price drop to clear out stock.

Even if Sony reduces the price of the current PS3 to clean out inventory, wouldn't that mean that they will lose A LOT more money on those current models just to clean out the inventory. That's quite ironic and stupid, if you ask me...

Um, you do remember what happened when the 80GB PS3 came out, right?  80GB was $600, and the 60GB dropped to $500.