Thanks for opening my eyes, now I know FO SHO Sony can't cut the price...

What's good for Sony doesn't neccessarily translate into what's good for the consumer. If Sony can't find ways to lower manufacturing costs to cut the price at all next year and is happy to the keep the status quo with the 360 essentially trouncing it in the weekly sales, then the bad press in the media will continue, developers/publishers may lower their support of the console and consumer confidence in a long life will be down.

I have a better idea: stop making PS3. When that happens Sony dont have to sell at a loss

I think sony should temporarily stop making ps3's for a month or two, sort of like a re launch..

You also have the problem of when they drop the price it may or may not have caught up with cost reductions so the cycle continues.

Even Sega didnt take a decision like that........... Dreamcast2 here we go!!!

Note to self: don't make a console that costs too much to manufacture so that at any given price point it is either too expensive for the consumer or loses me too much money, or in the PS3's case, both.

Got it.

Thanks.

Sony is just going to coast, and wing it, and try to minimize their gargantuan losses until they afford a price cut. That is their only option, and sadly by then the Wii will have about 80% of this gen's marketshare. Sony really shot themselves in the foot and face with this thing.

First of all you LMAO'ed at him but didn't give a reason why you thought the bolded part was so funny.

Also people don't want the PS1 (2 gens ago) library anymore, they want the PS2 library (last gen like the xbox and gamecube). Why would you try to compare the PS1 and Xbox/Gamecube, sounds to me like you are straw grasping. 

Yea, selling the PS1 and PS2 for $299 and then selling the PS3 at $599 was a bad mistake. But then it isn't really a video game console, or is that what consumers think?

Well, the main fact is probably $399 is a gr8 value but Sony dropped the bomb going for more power then developing a good video games console. Adding blu-ray, wi-fi, ps3 backwards compatibility, memory card readers, and then taking away the memory card readers and ps2 compatibility... Sony just needs to focus right now on making a good video game console rather then justifying a $399-599 price point. Seems they might be too late.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/23/sony-could-break-even-on-ps3-in-09-finally-get-agressive-with/

Apparently, they'll break even in early 2009. Cut out the WLAN (like I've been saying for months), take out some of the parts, make things more efficient, I think they can cut the price enough for them to be profiting from a $350 PS3.