I'm sorry, where did you buy your crystal ball? I'd really love to be able to look into the future, which is clearly what you must have done to be able to find out that the PS2 somehow never sells for $200. Or is it a time machine? Can I borrow it? I promise, it'll only be gone for a second.
You do not know how this is going to play out, so stop acting like you do. All we can do is speculate on what's happening now and what the results of it will be in the near future. The fact of the matter is, there isn't any evidence that the PS3 is going to die. In fact, with this price cut they will probably stay on the same sales course as the 360 and have about 10 million units sold this time next year with a good holiday.
That's not a dying position by any definition. Yet that's what we have to look at for the imeadiate future. Claiming that the PS3 isn't going to make it to the sweet spot, which is higher than you are apparently aware of, is asinine. As it stands, the system hasn't even gotten more than 2-3 big sellers when it has dozens in the pipelines. Wait until it starts seeing games people care enough about to buy before you predict the system's future, because I can assure you that game selection is hurting the systems sales right now as much as price. Again, the PS1 started off just as badly and picked up after not just a price drop but also the launch of games people were genuinely interested in.
Sony has always moved slow, that hasn't stopped them from getting huge in the long run. Sony doesn't care about today, they care about their future plans which we know so little about. They're just doing business as usual, and that got them two of the best selling electronic devices in history (three if you would like to talk about Walkman as well).
You do not have the right to never be offended.
