US is probably the last location for sony to drop the prices with the weak dollar they are selling a lot cheaper there allready than in europe.
Last reports on production costs of the ps3 were from jan this year where the costs should have been allready in the 400$ range, which gives them allready some nice profits of every console sold in Europe. But small losses for every us console sold. I'm not sure if and how much the production costs decreased in the last months, that depends probably mostly on possible cost reductions on the production of the blu-ray. (if i look at bd rom drives for computers over the last year then they are getting cheaper nearly every month so there might have been some further cost reductions in the last few months)
Add to that the fact that they have a new ps3 model with the shrinked gfx chip and maybe even with the shrinked cell planned for the 2nd half of 2008 means that soe might have a small margin for a small price drop for christmas to push sales if needed. But they are looking for profitability atm so i am not sure if it will happen in the us, in europe i am really expecting a pricedrop for christmas since the 400€ that the 40gb ps3 officially costs here are over 630$.
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