Its picking up steam slowly as it did when the slim version was released with the price-cut in September 2009. Now another price-cut much closer to 200$ will bring a high value for price with all packages(blue-ray/online/library/exclusives). Many had wrongly anticipitated a price-cut and was looking forward to buy the better console. As a result, its competitors saw larger sales during holiday season and PS3 never the least, with the same price. A price-cut is crucial for the PS3 to break even further from now on and have the farthest advantage over any other higher priced next gen consoles, if they were to be released in two years time.