Honestly folks the slim model might give Sony twenty dollars in savings four or five months after production commenced. Start up costs are higher, because you basically got to get your groove back. Yeah trying to really dumb it down here. Take a console that isn't even breaking even, and cut the cost by twenty dollars after five months of production, and well your not getting the room to have a hundred dollar price cut let alone a fifty dollar price cut.
Might be a different story if Sony had components to strip out of the machine, but they already did that a couple years ago, and lighter chip sets don't give you a fifty dollar reduction either. In other words there is no quick way to reduce costs by that much. The console will loss lead again, or Sony has been blowing smoke about the current consoles manufacturing costs. Either way a slim model is a step towards future price reductions, but it is not enough to justify a 15%-25% drop in retail price.
Anyway this is all off subject. It isn't whether the belief in a price cut is realistic. It is what do the people that make the or else comments actually mean by them. What are they implying. Say I told you to give me a hundred dollars or else. Wouldn't you at least be interested in what my threat was alluding to. What will I do cry, beat you up, murder you. This is kind of the point of this thread.
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