Wow your all reduced to this now.

Once again, taking video games too seriously, go outside get some sunlight or at least pick up and play the good PS3 games instead of polluting this forum.

When Ps3 hits 250 - xbox will be 99 or 180 (arcade and pro), always remember

Ps3: Cell + Blu Ray + Wi-fi + bluetooth + memorycards reader.

No meter what the Ps3 cost, the xbox 360 will be cheaper.

Mumble mumble... When PS3 will cost $200-250(2012-2013!?).... XBOX360 will be at $90-95?... 

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Mmmh... Or maybe... XBOX720 will come at a price of $299?!...  

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Or... MAYBE... Aliens  will come from Mars....

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Good bless U all!

UmE

Only thing that Xbox360 deliver is extreme noise in a room. That's it folk. "8"

it's all good c0rd. However jsut because he is wrong about most things doesn't mean he is wrong about everything. I strongly believe, and am backed up by stats that every console sells the majority of its product at the 200-300$ price range.

There are instances where this is not so though, as in the GC and DC but then again both had very stiff competition from the ps2. However, the main point I am talking about is still apparent. The "Value" of the PS2 was much much more than the GC and DC, even though they were all great consoles in my mind.

But you can see really, from the ps2 and ps1 sales drops, sales almost doubled when the price hit 200$ and remained that way for the majority of its life.

@Bengabenga
yes, in this day and age price cuts are meant to help stay level. But those are lessons learned from recency. If an Ipod was 50$, I can guarantee everyone in america would have one. Again though, it has to do with perceived value. It would be great for an Ipod, but say for a Zune or other player, it just might not make the same impact. That is why your GC analogy fails, because comparitively ps2 out did it in every aspect.

When PS3 reaches $250, every week it will sell 200k or more

Normal Weeks

- About 100k in Europe
- About 80k in America
- About 20k in Japan

Holiday Weeks (December)

- 400k in Europe
- 300k in America
- 70k in Japan

Maximum Peak in Year = approx 1.4 Mil

The day it happens means bankcrupty for SONY...

I'm mystified by Sony's pricing strategy right now. It's peak holiday season, amidst the worst economic slump in generations, which means expensive toys just aren't going to sell. After two years, they surely have cut their costs to the point they could slash the price to $299/299EUR. What gives? Is Sony simply getting greedy, figuring it can milk BluRay the way Microsoft milked Windows? Because cheap BluRay players are arriving, which means that strategy won't work. Or are they planning to slash the price early next year? Whatever the case, $400 ain't going to cut it in a consumer recession this nasty. Do they know what they're doing, or is this a sign - along with the appointment of Stringer of CEO - that Sony is becoming a fat, lazy, American-style monopolist more interested in financing shareholders than innovation, and who thinks it can tell consumers what they want?

Not excactly, I have read an article about the bosss of SONY and putting that corporation back on track is not an easy business. It is very decentralized, un-consolidated and ruinous ... The guy is not lazy, I can assure you .

Even though many people will not admit it, the 10 year lifespan for the PS3 does not work the way they think it does and is not likely to be as successful as it was for the PS2 simply because of the popularity difference between the two consoles. Although some consumers are naïve, most consumers are fully aware that the later in a console’s life you buy a system the shorter the "Healthy" life of the console is.

The PS3 might see a price reduction to $300 in 2009 and will probably not be $200 to $250 until later in 2010 (at the earliest) and people who are looking into this system will be fully aware that they’re buying into a 4 year old console that has 2 good years of life left before it is replaced by something better by Sony (and may have already been replaced by something better for not that much more money by Microsoft).

Whether people see value in the PS3 will depend upon whether they see much life for the console after it is replaced by something better, and this depends heavily on how well the system has sold and how well third party publishers are supporting the console at that point in time. At its current rate of Sales the PS3 will be at just over 30 Million units sold, and with the high development costs will probably not be seeing too much support outside of genres which have already performed really well.

Basically, the improvement possible from the lower price will be limited because (by then) the PS3 will be in its twilight years and will be (heavily) focused on genres of people who have already bought into the PS3.