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Fumanchu on 16 October 2010
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Euphoria14 said:
reidlosdog said:

Becuase it cost 599 originally.

Can you explain a price cut, that will not hurt Sony, when they have a larger HDD, Blue-Ray player (which is easily costing them $80 alone to produce and ship out), wireless internet (cheap, only G capability, I actually think this is the reason they were able to do a price cut), a Move controller, Eye Toy, PS3 controller, and a free online service?

I don't see a price cut in the near future for Sony, but I do see a price cut for both the 360 and Kinect, with the good old Pachter backing me up on the latter.


You do know that PS3 is profitable right? Has been for a while now. I am sure they can cut price without worry right now, especially since they now have extra money coming in from PSPlus.

PS3 will be $199.99 by next holiday season.

I think that's a big call.  I haven't seen up to date manufacturing costs estimates, but I would be hesitant to assume that they can cut costs a further $100 ($200 in 3 years) and still expect to profit, and more importantly help subsidise losses incurred by their next system's launch (assuming they have a cross-over transition and another loss-leader).