Amazon U.S. August bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

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skylanders said:

why next week? why not wait one more week and make it on the 7th.
if they wanted to do a pricecut before, they would have already done it, imho

how much stock can you clear in one week?
unless it's a prime day firesale... :D

Sony will have wanted to maintain the price for the PS4 until they had no other choice. Now that the Slim has been revealed they'll likely drop the price of the OG PS4 to maintain sales and clear the old stock. They won't have the same amount of stock as the XB1 and so won't have the same problems clearing old stock. The slim is clearly already shipping so I'm expecting it to launch on the 7th of Sep. Remember Sony called Apple's approach to launching new hardware 'elegant'.

I'm guessing the slim will be no more than $300 and the Neo will be deliberately marked up. It's going to be sold to the 'hobyists' to begin with and then over time it will be brought down in price for mass market. I'll say $400 - $450 and the major advertising will concentrate on 4K (which is why there's no mention of 4K on the Slim) and improved PSVR.