It'll be interesting what will happen if the PS3's price is cut soon. Sony paid $800 to make these and will be selling them for $500 instead of $600. Add in the cost of warehousing and such and it comes to nearly $200 million down the drain. As Fisheyjoe was mentioning, if the PS3 doesn't start selling soon Sony could also see much of their manufacturing cost reductions lost as they will either have to run the factories at less than economic rates or lease more warehouses and hope they still don't have to halt production later.
Something to consider, if I recall (and I'm going by memory so I could easily be mistaken) the Dreamcast and GameCube both had to halt production after they had only sold, to consumers to make it clear to certain folk, 5-6 million with 5-6 million consoles in various warehouses. 6 months in and Sony is half way to that situation.
