Would you prefer that they put their money where their mouth is and shift future development away from the PS3?

As always, I'm impressed by your ability to flame anyone for criticizing anything Sony does, even a top executive at a company whose games Sony desperately needs.

He's top brass from the SDF - what else did you expect? 

Good thing, because the Japanese execs have to live in Nintendo land, aka Japan, where PS3 prices are the lowest in the world. 

Yeah but SE japan has already commented on this. So in your opinion Sony can afford to ignore SE and Konami even though they are huge companies. It isn't even really whining but more of a cautious message because teh price drop will have an increase in sales especially this week but the spike has to have some legs and thsi is what they say they will be watching.

Sony can't do this alone. Nintendo barely could and they were profitable.

 If you think this price drop is temporary you got another thing coming. The 600 dollar version has MS pack in game in it and it says limited edition on the box.

The new pricepoint is 500 dollars for the console alone and if the 60 gb gets phased out then the 80 gb is going to be 500 dollars.

Also, Sony said they aren't phasing out the 60 gb version.

They also said they weren't planning a price cut. 

square enix says different FF series for different platforms. i wouldnt mind if they released a lower graphics quality version of FF13 and FF13 versus for the wii. that way, i won't have to buy a ps3 anymore :)

They said they weren't phasing out the 20GB PS3 either. Yet they did. They said they wouldn't rumble, but now they are getting it. I could go on, but my point has been made. Sony's word isn't exactly gold these days Ckmlb.

why does 20 gigs of hard drive space cost $40?