| welshbloke said: So many what ifs... What if the Slim is launched to conincide with a $50 price cut What if the Slim does not launch at all What if the Slim is launched with no price cut What if the Slim is launched with a $100 price cut What if the Slim is launched to coincide with a $100 price cut and GT5 What if the Slim is launched to coincide with a $50 price cut and GT5 A lot of what ifs and when you then combine this with the inevitable reply from Nintendo and Microsoft you end up with a ton of what ifs. If the Slim launched in August ignoring a ton of what ifs it will I think produce a smoothed 40% rise in sales. |
Not as many what ifs as you would think. All signs currently point to only one possibility of the six you suggest.
For various reasons including leaks by reliable moles, Gran Turismo 5 will almost certainly not be launching until late November at the earliest, with a December release more likely by the day. Either way, this is well after the PS3 slim's projected release.
I really don't know how any informed person can honestly think that the MASSIVE evidence regarding the slim is all fake, so the thing definitely is real and is getting released this year before November.
There have been numerous rumors and leaks regarding an upcoming price cut. Between the official statement ballparking PS3 manufacturing costs around $240-$300 dollars to the credible Ars Mole confirming one is coming there can also be very little doubt by any informed person at this point that a price drop of some sort is definitely coming.
In regards to how much Sony will cut off the PS3's price, one need only look at Sony's sales and financial predictions for the division for this fiscal year to be painted the answer. First of all there is really no possible way that Sony can increase PS3 yoy sales by the 40% needed to attain their still current 13 million sales expectation by the end of March without a $100 price cut, and even then I wouldn't expect it to be easy. However, even more convincing is the fact that Sony expects the gaming division to report a surprisingly massive loss for the 2010 year despite a relatively better than expected 1st quarter. One has to wonder how this could this possibly be considering that the PS3 will be making a massive profit with it's recently narrowed down manufacturing cost and the PSP Go! which is believe to be cheaper to manufacture than the PSP-3000 and retails for $80 more. Even if software continued to sputter all throughout March it's simply inconceivable that Sony's Networking division could be bleeding so badly with a stabalizing economy and three massively profitible systems.
Taking all of this into account, they all point to the slim launching sometime within the next 3 months at $299.99.
