I agree a Price drop is what they need the most. I also understand that they need to make a profit so they could do a few things. they need to Make new PS3 modles with a Very small hard drive and make it so it can only accept Sony PS3 Hard Drives and sell those for a MASIVE profit. Also remove Built in WiFi and sell a antenna that you make a SICK profit on. Add a Tier system to online keep it free but make a premium level that people can get early access to Games that come out Thursday on the PSN and early demos. Lastly is Bring Back the 60gb PS3 with B/C with all the original features.

The Stripped PS3 can sell for $200-$250 and sell the high end machine for $500 if you are gonna go through the troble of making 2 machines make major differences. Go cheap and make us pay through the Wazoo to upgrade or Pay alot and if you need an upgrade for memory it won't be as much in the future.

The fact that you can buy the machine that is right for you should eliminate all the fuss about what people want out of the PS3. You get more of a choice(really don't think 40gb of hard drive is a decision maker) and Sony gets a machine to market that can compete in price with 360and Wii.

wow the thursday thing is the dumbest thing I've ever read.

Sony: "Updates will now take place on wednesday!"

Consumer: "Holy shit let's go buy PS3"


Not gonna happen. but:


Sony: "PS3 is now $300"

Consumer: "Holy shit let's go buy PS3"

Will happen

I don't agree. I am very satisfied with the free Playstation Network. I don't want the X-Box Live fees. I think it's stupid to claim to pay for the PS-Network. In fact thats the reason for many to get a PS3  because you get the same service as X-Box Live for free.

Also the thursday update interval is no problem at all.

I'll give your my four things and they'll be fine if they do just one : $101 price cut, $100 price cut, $99.99 price cut, $99 price cut.

Enough.

Sony can't do a price drop right now, just like someone above me said before: Sony will rather sell less than both Wii and 360 and make a slight profit than sell more than either one or both competitors and make a loss. Some people will say: but if Sony sells more consoles, they will also sell more games and then in the end Sony will make thus more profit by lowering the price. However, if Sony makes $20 for a Sony published game and $5 for a game that is not published by Sony, Sony has to sell 5-20 games to justify a $100 price cut. Because the attach rate on the PS3 is not that high (about 8 games per sold PS3 in the US according to VGchartz), I don't think a price cut can't be justified right now.

^and most likely double the sales of hardware, software, accesories, PSN store/Home goods and probably blu-ray movies. Yes, price cut please.

Double? ...

^most likely, yeah. 100% initial increase, then settle for about a 50-60% increase on hardware alone.

Even if hardware increases that much, the increase in software wouldn't be anywhere near it. It's not like the existing userbase will buy more software due to a hardware price cut.