I think that if it doesn't get a price cut, it will still sell but if a price cut were to come then it would dramatically help sales. A lot of people are preparing for a price cut, perhaps that is why they haven't bought it yet. If they know for sure one isn't coming then they will go ahead and buy it. I guess that is why Sony wants to keep everything under wraps.

Price cut won't happen anytime soon. Sony wants to make money, not lose money. A price cut would just widen the already hemorrhaging PS3 division.

Think of it this way. You have a banana and you are selling it for $2.00, but it cost you $2.50 to grow (You were originally selling it for $3.00 but only hardcore banana fans bought it and no one else, so you had to quickly drop the price.). Now no one is buying it from you because your rival is selling fruit for $1.50.

Well if you cut the price to $1.50 then you are losing $1 on every banana you sell.

Now class, how long do you think the banana salesmen will stay in business if he took that $1 loss per banana?

Make the banana's out of cheaper and more efficient parts, perhaps make a "slim" banana, since it is half the banana and you sell it for 1.50 you make a .25 profit :D.

Yeah, but who wants a slim banana?

True, you got me there :(. It doesn't quite fill you up as much, but I guess you will need to buy a lot of strawberries (games) to make it last.

i dont understand. Launches aligned the PS3 has outsold the 360 and the 360 had a full year on the market with NO COMPETITION no wii, no PS3. People tend to forget such things and lose perspective in my opinion.

Also a consideration must be made for the fact MSFT hasnt dealt with the bulk of their consoles life cycle smack dab in an economy meltdown.

I leave nintendo out of the discussion for obvious reasons, the fact its a phenomenon and they seem to be able to do no wrong this gen its not even worth discussing since theyre so far ahead they could up the price of the wii or DS and still be outselling their competitors WW.

Honestly folks the slim model might give Sony twenty dollars in savings four or five months after production commenced. Start up costs are higher, because you basically got to get your groove back. Yeah trying to really dumb it down here. Take a console that isn't even breaking even, and cut the cost by twenty dollars after five months of production, and well your not getting the room to have a hundred dollar price cut let alone a fifty dollar price cut.

Might be a different story if Sony had components to strip out of the machine, but they already did that a couple years ago, and lighter chip sets don't give you a fifty dollar reduction either. In other words there is no quick way to reduce costs by that much. The console will loss lead again, or Sony has been blowing smoke about the current consoles manufacturing costs. Either way a slim model is a step towards future price reductions, but it is not enough to justify a 15%-25% drop in retail price.

Anyway this is all off subject. It isn't whether the belief in a price cut is realistic. It is what do the people that make the or else comments actually mean by them. What are they implying. Say I told you to give me a hundred dollars or else. Wouldn't you at least be interested in what my threat was alluding to. What will I do cry, beat you up, murder you. This is kind of the point of this thread.

Yes in a way, though probably not in as dramatic language or with as much intent as you put it.

People get emotionally invested in things, they like to see such things do well. The current status quo must be dispiriting to say the least.  Although I wouldn't assert that a lot of these people are giving up on the whole. All I meant was on a site dedicated to sales tracking, its logical that such people would like to see there console sell well.