I agree for the most part, except that "Whoever hears this and freaks out that the PS3 price is going back up buys it now (people following this news online)" doesn't make sense to me.

I have a friend who was interested in the PS3 more when he heard the 60 GB model was dropping to $500...he was getting ready to buy it almost.  Now that we're pretty sure an 80 GB model will cost $500 later this year...he's just gonna wait...he can wait a half year or so...and so can a lot of people if they're on the fence about buying a PS3.

I don't have $500 to put down for a PS3...but if I did, I'd wait for the 80 GB model to cost $500.  So...I see this slowing down potential sales, at least for news checkers.  The average consumer will see price cuts and buy it though, probably.

Lol. I am not Gballzack either.

How? Would you provide a photo? You are Gball. I'm sure  because of your post in Legends thread... Anyway someone should finish this multi account circus off.

People, drop the nonsense about gballzack.

I don't care  if it is or isn't.

If the person trolls, they'll get in trouble, plain and simple...so it doesn't matter.

ughh geeze.  Does it have to be said again?

 I know you don't want to hear it.

ckmlb.  Everytime Sony sells a console, they lose money.  If they sell the console at $500, they lose more money than if they sell it at $600.

Sony is obviously trying to cut their loses, 1.By ripping people off by taking out the emotion engine, 2.By ripping people off for charging them 40 dollars for 20 gigabytes.  Obviously their main objective is to cut the amount of money they lose per system.  Now with that as their main objective, it's not hard to believe that they would also try to leave the system at a 600 dollar pricepoint.  They can do it in a slick way by putting out a system with more harddrive space and a "free" game.  If someone says "well the PS3 was 499 before"  Sony argues "Well now u get more harddrive space a free game (and no emotion engine, but you're just "average-joe" so you don't know/care.)"

Of course they don't add in what was said between the parenthesis

I hope you see this other string of logic which is entirely possible.

Im with ckmlb on this one. I even think it will be $499 with a game and $469 without a game. I think it will be end of Oktober / begin of November (GTA 4) Sony goes down with the price of the 80 gig. Maybe earlier if(and only if) they sell out the 60 GB way before that point.

The "Emotion Engine" argument is a weak one people...I've yet to hear hardly any major complaints from either the hardcore EU crowd or the average joe EU gaming press about backwards compatibility...

This site has has one of the funniest forums I've been on. The "Goodbye Nintendo" thread ended so strange. And now people are pretending to be Gballzack or vice versa.

There is no information available that Sony are losing money on PS3 sales now.  Actually going on recent reports, the new 80GB PS3 without the EE and includes the new cheaper Blu-Ray components are actually making a reasonably healthy profit.

It has been reported that Sony have been making a marginal profit from PS3 sales in the US for a few months now and this is allowing them to reduce the price, not just to compete in the market, but because they CAN actually do it.

I honestly reckon that they are at least saving themselves $150 per PS3 build now compared to 6 months ago. 

Here's a picture of my girlfriend and I from about a year ago.

Here's my senior picture.

Here I am playing a show with my band.

Here I am blowing out birthday cake.

And finally, here I am with my girlfriend again at a baseball game.

Now cut the crap.  I am not Gballzack.