How much of an effect will the forthcoming price cut have on PS3 sales??

[Caey]

I don't see the point of the pricedrop neither. If they would drop it to XBOX 360 price it would be clear what they intend to do ;).

I guess that they either want to draw some more developers towards the PS3, but in reality i think thats keeping developers to the PS3. You may say what you want, if they are aready building a PS3 game and are half way trough, they are still better off (re)making it a Wii game and stop PS3 development.
A second guess is that they want to keep the PS3's momentum as a blue-ray player, yet that would only be for internal affairs and since Sony's ceo is already on the case it seems unlikely.

I think the whole point is to have more games on the PS3, i only see MGS coming as an AAA title but if you see what other consoles are offering... If you see that the sales of a super hyped launch game like resistance get a mere 1.3 million copies vs gears 4.25 million you'll understand that it's almost stupid to make a PS3 game. And with these numbers it's almost impossible to make an exclusive game...

But i'm going a bit off toppic there, i think sales will increase in the first weeks and then decline to like a 1.1or1.2 factor of original sales. I think the biggest profit lays in the fact that the end-year's sales won't be incredibly bad and that the PS3 will come a step closer to position itself as a follow-up of the PS2 not a seperate brand. But i don't think they'll make the 11million by march 08 as they promised.

But i think microsoft will lower their prices as well, at least for the cheapest model.