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Millennium on 17 May 2009

I don't doubt there will be a slim, but I don't think it will be accompanied by a price cut. Sony simply can't afford it, and the model refresh will generate at least a little extra demand from existing PS3 owners looking to trade up to what they'd see as the "latest-and-greatest."

I believe that this is the tactic Sony will try to take to boost sales. They can't cut the price -if they could afford it they'd have done it long ago- so they have to look to other demand-spiking tricks. I don't think this will work, but I think they will try it.



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killeryoshis on 17 May 2009

May is halfway over need to come sooner than that



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radha on 17 May 2009

"If we announce our pricing strategies, that affects our inventory level"

interesting, i hope is true



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deathgod33 on 17 May 2009

wth underwhelming software lineup?



 

 

 

 

ymeaga1n on 17 May 2009
Megadude said:
same thing I thought. But you know who (MS) NBC would be rooting for.

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Kantor on 18 May 2009

Underwhelming software lineup, my arse.



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Munkeh111 on 18 May 2009

Yeah, we all know they are going to cut the price, and there was no way that they could continue through the holiday without doing so, but the question comes in the form of will it be a PS3 Slim for $300 at E3, or will we have to wait until September for a $300 "fat" PS3



Willem on 18 May 2009

I hope I'm wrong, but I don't expect a price-cut this year.
I'm expecting more & better games, more PS3 / PSN features, improving PSN, smarter marketing etc ... but not a pricecut.



NJ5 on 18 May 2009

Yeah Sony really seems intent on forgetting its profitability goal for the sake of increasing market share a little. They even admitted in their last financial report that this year they'll have more losses on gaming.

In another thread I calculated with optimistic assumptions that a $100 price cut will cost Sony at least $380 million this fiscal year. So good luck convincing shareholders of SCE's sustainability.



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Munkeh111 on 18 May 2009

@ NJ5, aren't they hoping PSP sales, which I assume will produce profit, and increased software sales will help offset that. Now we are into 2nd or even 4th games for Sony developers, the costs are going to be lower, with the massive cost of Killzone 2 gone (it cost them nearly as much to make 3) that should help somewhat, but they are still likely to make a loss