Will the PS3 and X360 get a price cut this year?

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Mr.Playstation said:

platformmaster918 said: why?  they usually cut price by $100 approaching the third year.  At least I'm pretty sure they did with ps2 and that was dominating.  Like everyone says with ms cutting price it's for software and subs later.

A couple of things have changed since then though. For one Sony isn't in such a good financial position as it was back then. Secondly this generation will probably follow in the steps of the PS3 in terms of price which will mean profit over sales.

if MS can price cut for the future then why wouldn't Sony?  Their gaming division is making a good profit and they've cut the cost of the internal a couple times since launch plus time will have them making a nice margin by now.  Not to mention they want the largest install base because it snowballs into more sales and more software and more PS+.  They could have held back on the PS2 price cut too but then they might not have taken 70% of the market and made all those sweet software shares.