The years of the PS3 being the cheapest Blu-ray player are over and won't return.  You can already buy a Blu-ray player for less than $100 and that price will continue to drop next year.

No one is buying the PS3 as simply a Blu-ray player anymore.

I don't think Sony would drop the price of the PS3 that low at least not anytime soon. I mean look how long it took them to drop the price of the PS2 to $100. Plus didn't Sony barely start making money on the PS3 in the  middle of the this year 2010. So a $100 price drop would probably have them losing money again. A $50 price drop seems more reasonable.

I don't think anyone should expect a price drop by at least at the end of 2011. But people seem to forget that Microsoft can also drop the price of the Xbox 360 as well to hold it off. I mean look at what the slim did and it technically wasn't even a price drop. Plus kinect seems to have  put some momentum behind the Xbox 360 so I honestly don't think it will outsell it. Exclusive don't seem to matter to most people I mean the PS3 tends to have more exclusives every year yet they don't seem to do much for the PS3 hardware and move didn't seem to do much either it seems to be selling to existing PS3 users compare to Kinect which seems to be bringin new users to the 360 user base.

We do this every year, no?

Might as well make an official "Will the ps3 catch up next year?" thread or something, saves the amount of useless threads for once.

It will, when sony gives the ps3 4 free

LOL at ps3 magic $200 pricepoint automatically outselling everything.

What about 360 elite(the best selling version) reaching $200? What about 75 dollar kinect? $250 bundle?

I know, they said it would pass 360 when it reduced to $300 (still waiting)and now its $200!! O-Brother

 and Its a given that when that doesnt work , I guess a $100 pricepoint is next ,

face it....360 has already cemented itself to 2nd this console race

Sony fans should focus on next gen

lol...priceless!

MS fans should focus on reality then, 360 in no way has cemented it self to 2nd.

Eventually yes but only after the Xbox 3 already has launched, and by then not many people will care.

2011 will be pretty much status quo in sales (12-13 million each for PS3 and X360). Both consoles will drop $50 down to $250 (Xbox 360 250Gb will drop to $200 in Europe and the Arcade is even cheaper) so neither one will get a price advantage. And the broader worldwide popularity of Playstation will be offset by the Kinect boost.

I highly doubt that Sony can afford to drop the price of PS3 down by a full $100 next year. I think a $50 price drop is what is in the cards.

Same deal with Microsoft and the 360. I only expect a $50 pricedrop for the 360 SKUs next year and maybe a $30 price drop on the stand alone Kinect units, to $120. If MS is really aggressive, though, I could see them droping Kinect to $99 since it appears Kinect units only cost about $56 to manufacture.