I Hate To Say It, but the PS3 Might Not Get a Price Cut (My Opinion Inside)

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FishyJoe said:

bdbdbd said:
I don't know the correct number of PS3:s manufactured, but i would estimate, that 50% of them are sold. So, if the "expensive" (meaning that rumored 800 to manufacture) PS3:s are on the store shelves, they can't drop the price before those have been sold, it would mean big losses to stores selling the PS3 and they wouldn't like it, unless Sony would compensate it somehow. And since PS3 isn't selling good, it takes time to empty the shelves.

Precisely, they will undercut every retailer who has already has a big pile in their stores. And by all accounts, there has been a lot of channel stuffing going on. 

In addition, some of these cost reductions come from economy of scale. You can't continue to pump a million a month out if only 200k are selling. If you only produce 200k per month, then you won't get the volume discounts that you would at a million per month.

And Sony can't blackmail retailers anymore with anything, like they did with the PSP. In worst case scenario Sony loses a lot of retailers, which is a big part in possible success. For example, in Finland PSP is doing pretty good, when compared to average, because you can find it basically anywhere. Every electronics store sells PSP and you can find it even from those stores, which sell cheap shit in a cheap price (couldn't recall what you call them). But DS, is more harder to find. All supermarkets and electronics stores don't sell them, and as far as i know, DS and PSP are pretty even in Finland (still you can see more people with DS:s).