| alfredofroylan said: I wonder why some people think that the PS3'll have a bigger and more substancial price cut in the next months? The system is finally in black numbers. Why put it back in red again? |
I believe there will be a price cut next year, though I'm not sure if it'll be quite that large, however...
1. By your logic, Sony wouldn't have dropped the price last time. Yet much like last time, they're still in third place, and what momentum they had gained against their only surmountable competitor has now been lost due to Kinect.
2. SCE managed to shave ~$500 off the ps3's manufacturing cost between launch ($850) and the release of the Slim ($300-350). We know the console's manufacturing costs had dipped even further as far back as last March, when Sony announced they were finally making a profit on each ps3 sold. It's not unreasonable to believe they could be breaking even after a $100 drop by the end of next year, so they wouldn't necessarily be going into the red again, and even if they were, they likely wouldn't be doing it for very long.
