The PS3 SLIM will be released, which with lower production costs but similar price point, will bring SONY closer to profitability from the PS3 console.

The upcoming PSP GO shows that SONY are very willing to distribute software digitally.

SONY's recent patents which describe PS2 emulation using the PS3's cell processor has potential to allow all PS3s to have backwards compatibility.

The PS3 SLIM will not only be released with a larger hard drive, but access to the entire PS2 software library.

Hopefully, SONY goes the way of VALVE, and has sales promotions like 50% Shadow of the Colossus, before the sale of The Last Guardian...

All I know is that there are now three games for the PS3 I want. That is an all-time record.

Sounds like Sony is making some good moves, but saying that everything is falling in line for Sony is a bit of a stretch... you don't even know what the BC percentage will be or how much cheaper the slim will be for Sony to produce or what they will sell it for.

Link for any info about the ps3 slim being released

True to some degree, i'd buy another PS3 just for a slim version, and give my other PS3 to my mom or something, poor thing needs one. :P

The PS3 slim is not confirmed for this year, and I would doubt that they would release the slim with the same price point, that would be pretty stupid (especially if the rumored 360 price cut is true).

SONY claimed they will be profitible by the end of the year or by March next year, so either they will be cheaper to produce or they will sell it for a equal to higher price it's selling now.

They have a few options, they can advertise as slim, larger hard drive, and access to a huge amount of games.

Also, they could either lower the PS3 price, and plan to make it up by selling PS2 games online,

Or initially release the slim at a higher price, lower the price of the existing models, then lower the price when the existing models sell out.

By fall in line, I meant that they have a lot of things going for them that could mean profit.

The PSP GO! has provent o me that things are far from falling into line at SONY

Thankfully their PS3 decisions lately have been very good

No OP, the PSP go pretty much proves that Sony hasn't changed their strategy.

Anyway, if the Slim is released with full BC, then it's something the PS3 should have done.

If Sony releases the Slim, full BC, and 100 dollar price-cut, as well as cutting the Go!'s price by 80 dollars in less than 1 year from its release, then they will be making the right moves. Nothing "falls in line" in this business. You either screw up, or you succeed. If Sony does the right thing, they will succeed, but in all likelyhood, they will dissapoint, at least slightly. 50 dollar price cut would dissapoint, same price for the slim would dissapoint, no BC would dissapoint, 250 for the PSP Go! dissapoints, ect.

I don't know why everyone believes that a PS3 Slim has to be cheaper to manufacture than a "fat" PS3. It only has sense if you exclude all the re-engineering costs, Sony uses chips with a smaller technology (transistors with a smaller fetch channel), and the size is not that much smaller, because in electronics, if you want the same capabilities in a smaller size, you have to spend much more, not less.

In PS2 Slim Sony used a chip that combined the CPU and the GPU, I'm not sure if they can do the same with the chip technology they can use now.