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Well are you?

The PS3 price drop is one of the many nuclear weapons that Sony has secretly tucked away in it's arsenal and it's about to be unleashed. After months and months of requests, after a slow holiday season the price cut may only be a few weeks away according to many retailers, analysts and the majority of the industry, it's appearing on websites, google, PSXExtreme etc. Devleopers recently almost threatened Sony for a prce cut.

If this and when this price cut should com into place a few questions remain un answered like:

How much does Sony loose now? or Can Sony afford it?

Well what if Sony is secretly lowering the price of production and keeping it all a secret. It is possibe, everything is possible, the so called impossible just takes longer!

I doubt that Sony will cut the price without being able to make a profit, they are obsessed with making profit and always have been.

With Blu-Ray players coming in at $/€ 199 and the upcoming production of the 45nm CELL BE and RSX and cheaper components also on the way it's hard to belive that there won't be a price cut in the coming months.

Or if Sony can't afford it then they still have another trick up their sleeve... Hardware revision like with the 40GB version but there are no rumors about that so let's let it pass.

THOUGHTS?:



 


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Yes when is it.



 

no one knows. let's wait and see eh?



 


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I think most people were ready since last fall.



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Its great news but dont get me wrong it pisses me off that i had to pay over 500 $ for mine though!
YES!!! IM HATING!!!



We might but Sony sure as hell isn't.



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I think consumers are always ready for price drop regardless if it's PS3 or other things



MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.

Naum said:
We might but Sony sure as hell isn't.

This. A price cut would cost around 10% of their cash reserves, not to mention stuff like minimum cash operating levels and their piling debt which will bite them in the ass sometime during this recession...

Sony is not built to last through big recessions, not currently at least. They have to take some tough medicine and stop throwing money around.

 



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@NJ5:
You're right, Sony isn't fully prepped for this reccession but I think that Sony has a few friendly skeletons in thier closet.



 


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