40k yen price would mean a $399 US launch price, and I think that this means 1 sku. Im sure if sony wanted to push it since the yen is getting weak against the dollar, they can match the wii u launch price of $349 (no game).

I agree with you, maybe Sony will include something with the console, like 3 month trial of PSN+.

Urgh. Man, I hope you are wrong then. The WiiU can´t even deliver PS3 like graphic, If the next gen is not light-years ahead, then there is no point for me.

Sure WiiU can do things PS3 cant, specially in terms of visual effects but are you really so simple and superficial...i just cant get it folks, that attitude is nonsense for me, sorry

For $400-450 bucks, you expect something that is "light years" or even just 8 times more powerful than Wii U, which is itself a money loser. Video gamers are some of the cheapest fans out there.....aren't we?

Sony will go bankrupt selling to their devoted fans.

Anything over 450$ would be way too much for any market, I would think.

So which extreme should sony take?  Make their console price match the ps3 price of 60000yen/600 dollars and risk another episode of 2006 or undercut and sell at $299-$350 and risk another episode like 2006?

Well i guess it's official, ps4 will definitely be Sonys last console (along with the Vita as their last handheld). It will sell miserably at that price point. It's been a good run, but Sony for the loss!

This is way too much. Its suicidal to launch at over 400$ as the report claims. Sony legions, including myself, will buy the console at launch, but after that, expect demand to be low just like the Vita. I have a bad feeling. Mainstream consumers will not buy it at that price.

Well man, I don´t know what to say to you, every time I jumped a generation of consoles, I was amazed.

I had a Nintendo, played Super Mario, Die Hard, Roger Rabbit, Mega Man...

Bought the SNES, it was incredible. Thousand of beautyful colors, amazing sound, bigger and better games like Super Mario World, Chrono Trigger, Zeld and Donkey Kong Country.

Then I bought a Psone, jaw dropping experiences, like SILENT HILL, FF8 and METAL GEAR SOLID. The 3d, the CGI scenes, the imersion and all that glorious new gaming universe. What a blast.

Then PS2, my first game was SILENT HILL 2. I swear to god, I CRIED. I have been a horror fan since 5 years old, to feel like I really was living in a horro movie, the amazing graphics, the sweet sounds and all the deepth, I will never forget. Also GTA3, MGS2-3, FATAL FRAME, RE4, DRAGON QUEST 8, What a console.

Then I bought a Xbox360. Fallout 3 and GTA4 were my first games. Man, can´t even describe what I felt, Fallout was this weird, pretty new world, it was like another dimension compared to PS2 games. And GTA4. I have played it very slowlly, afraid that it ended too soon.

See what I mean? Every new generation was to me like falling in love again, like being in another new dimension: Everything is more alive, more amazing, more tastefull.

Can you understand?