That cannot be compared $200 Wii is barely cheaper than starting price and still questionable value for many gamers.

$200 ps3 is like a Wii price drop to 100-130$ range.

YEAHHHH GO PS3 360, THERE MY MANLY MACHINES :D

Hey hey, it's only because I haven't really played GT5 yet. I have it now and really enjoy it, but I've put far more hours in GT4, so, naturally, I enjoy that one more ATM.

However, from my 7 hours with GT5 compared to my 455 hours with GT4, I can see that, from a technical standpoint, GT5 is better

Something just doesn't ring true about these figures, don't know what it is. But every week, I'm left thinking hmm...odd.

100 percent agree, it shouldnt be done either way, but the fact that double standards by some people. That is the thing that bothered me haha

its still annoying, if one person says one argument a week later they shouldnt change their mind because their system is ahead... this is why I don't get console wars tbh

hmmm people cannot judge peoples feelings when they are typed sooo

Stop bringing your personal life to this site, it gets annoying. I am not stalking you I noticed your post, it just happens that you seem to do very very similar posts thread after thread, but unbeknownst by me you keep bloody getting away with it.

I don't see how your first point makes a difference - Wii's first holiday was boosted then second was massively down. The holidays followed the same logic as the rest of the year in terms of its decline. Secondly, PS3 won't be able to drop to $199 from $299. Sales will be unacceptably low if they wait that long. They'll probably go to $249 first.

Also, the PS3 is already suffering from relatively high YOY dropoffs. Without a $249 price, it'll only get worse through the year as the price cut gets older. And even right now, it's rather artificially boosted by some retailer offers here and there.

Not to say that the console isn't doing well, though - it's making the Wii look like a joke, D:.

I remember even before (but maybe I mix-up USA, EU or WW), but that was in USA, while in the EU the 299€ PS3 broke even several months before and WW, obviously, somewhere in between, but overall, WW, it broke even around March 2010, so dropping price in Autumn 2011 would be at least 18 months after it broke even WW at $299/299€, dropping to $199 (and 199€ in EU) could make PS3 sell at a slight loss in USA, but break even or make a small profit in EU and profit where it's even more overpriced than in EU, compared to USA. The margin is there, but the decision will be taken considering a lot of other factors, that will be combined and weighted to decide whether the benefit compared to just dropping to $249 could be worth the lower profit margin until in the best case PS3 should have dropped to $199 anyway. Currently Sony looks like it prefers, after the huge initial losses, good profits and more than decent sales to stellar sales and low profit, so, unless their plans are less linear and obvious for the future, this year a drop to $249 looks more likely to me too, but the one to $199 is not to be ruled out, it wouldn't be a bloodbath by any means. BTW, when PS4 launches, PS3 should be dropped to $150 or less, so when PS4 launches plays a role too, price drops too close to each other should be avoided, if possible (this applies to XB360 too depending on XB720 launch date, while Wii is just one drop away from Wii max reasonable price when Wii2 lauches, so it should be fine whatever Ninty chooses, despite having very little room for price drops and strict timing to observe if it wants to launch Wii2 later than Autumn 2012, Ninty has no problems to make Wii reach the right price without hurrying drops up, instead it must be very accurate choosing when to drop if it wants to extend Wii's life as main console as far as possible).

So you can stop judging me right now.  Take you own advice.  And about being personal.  Stop calling me out, and I won't be responding to you.  You're not going to bait me to get that kiss from me.  It's not going to happen, ever.  I'm not even going to hold your hand.  It wasn't meant to be.  Please, find someone else.