Sony will not cut the price.

If MS drops the price of the 60 gig to $300, that would piss off the people that just bought the 20 gig for $300. At least Sony gave its customers notice that the 80 gig will retail for the same price as the 40 gig.

It depends on the 360's sales after their pricecut. If 360 explodes, Sony HAS to respond, regardless of their "10 year plan" and "profitability"

Well, you aren't really comparing two similiar products so u can't really expect any logical predictions. GoW was launched in november 2006 when the X360 already had an established userbase while Resistance was launched in 'november 2006' just like GoW but as a launch title for the PS3 when it didn't have that big of a user base.

Don't you think that the sales will be different now that both have got a relatively close(k... 5 million is still a lot)? I saw the ingame trailers and I couldn't care less about either but base on quality and epicness and grandiose battles, I would probably say Resistance edges it.

@Kyros:

I still don't see the overwhelming reason for a price cut that you just talked about. Do you think PS3 sales will suffer a lot due to 360's price cut?

no,i dont think it will

It's sort of unrelated but I wonder how much effect the model shuffling has had. All of the people I know who have bought PS3's since the 60GB was discontinued have bought used 60GB units off Ebay - even people who don't have any PS2 games.

I can put myself forth as an example. I got the 60GB because it has full hardware BC. The number of PS2 games I have: zero. So why do I care about full BC? Because I like to know it's there, I guess. It's sort of the same reason that people buy cars that can go 120 when there's nowhere they can drive it over 80. It's not a rational decision but it's the decision I made, and I doubt I'm the only one. You just feel like you're getting a lower-end product when you get the new PS3, and if you're spending that kind of money for such a thing you want the "best".

As for people that actually have a significant library of PS2 games, the "just keep your PS2" argument doesn't fly. It requires another input, doesn't upscale, you have to have another console and set of controllers laying around, etc. It's the same reason I play NES games on an emulator even though I have an actual NES sitting in my closet somewhere.

So, I'd say that they should at least offer a low-end system (which they have with the 40GB) and a high-end system, even if they have to make it a little more expensive to keep full hardware BC - people buying the high end system don't want to make compromises. You could even add more to the price of the high-end system to "subsidize" the low-end system. So, you'd end up with say, a $349 40GB with no BC and a $549 80GB with full hardware BC.

 How dare you say such a thing!!!! Troll

You know we're not allowed to say anything bad about the PS3 on vgchartz, yet you persist!

Yep PS3 is looking mighty expensive, and will look more so in a few weeks...Surely it couldn't go the whole year without a price cut yet Sony say they aren't going to have one.

Silly buggers don't know PR, a company should never make a concrete statement like that. Now they will have no choice when the 360 sells like hot cakes and will have to go back on their word.

But then they do that sort of thing quite a lot really...Cowboys them Sony folk!

So called 'PS2 upgrader' - SOCOM: Confrontation. Not a massive seller like Gears or MGS4, but a VERY loyal fanbase. People are still playing SOCOM online on their PS2's. A lot of people will 'upgrade' to PS3 when SOCOM PS3 comes out.

Tekken 6 is also a 'PS2 upgrader', but it isn't such a big deal.

The 360 has nothing compared to last year. Halo 3 came out and still the 360 couldn't outsell the PS3 that holiday season worldwide. All the PS3 had last year was Uncharted, a new IP, and Ratchet and Clank.

LittleBigPlanet is the biggest game this holiday season in terms of 'upgrading' PS2 owners. Just watch it happen

tombi123 said: So called 'PS2 upgrader' - SOCOM: Confrontation. Not a massive seller like Gears or MGS4, but a VERY loyal fanbase. People are still playing SOCOM online on their PS2's. A lot of people will 'upgrade' to PS3 when SOCOM PS3 comes out. Tekken 6 is also a 'PS2 upgrader', but it isn't such a big deal. The 360 has nothing compared to last year. Halo 3 came out and still the 360 couldn't outsell the PS3 that holiday season worldwide. All the PS3 had last year was Uncharted, a new IP, and Ratchet and Clank. LittleBigPlanet is the biggest game this holiday season in terms of 'upgrading' PS2 owners. Just watch it happen

I have to comment on your PS3/360 holiday comparison. The PS3 had just gotten a 200 € price cut in Europe which heavily affected sales. Nothing of that sort will happen this year for either platform.

I have that problem as well. If I were to buy a 360 for instance, I'd want the elite not the arcade even if the arcade cost $100.