PS4 is way past the time for another price cut

[DonFerrari]

BraLoD said:
For people talking about the sales performance.
The PS2 is the most successful console ever and it was over 50% discounted by its 6th year.
I'm not disputing the PS4 success, but the profit strategy is starting to lose power.
The system is old and it's a year away from being replaced, it's really time to make it cheap.
I also thought about the strategy of holding a $250 PS4 to the $500 PS5 announcement, but with it being BC that doesn't make sense.
The PS5 will have a lot of perceived value in all fronts including playing your PS4 games, keeping the PS4 at only half the PS5 price will utterly kill its legs.
Profit is nice, that's for sure, but the PS4 has already given Sony more than they could imagine, it's time to focus on making those Playstations land on how many more homes they can.
You buy a PS4 and then you can trade it in for a PS5 like 2 years later and keep all the games you bought.
The PS4 needs to be cheap or it'll be another PS3 with "small" legs.

Yep, cutting price and getting additional PS+ subs plus some people tied to their system until they go for PS5 could also help they more long term than just doing a little more money per HW sold in the short term.