It's not that the price cut was $50. It's that the price cut gets people to think "it's under $200," which is the magic thought to put in the mind of the consumer. PS2 only sold 18 million when it cost more than $200, then it sold over 100 million when it got to $199.99 and under. Wii sold 53 million when it cost more than $200, and let's see how high it can raise the roof on those world records.

Surrender, price cut is the real system seller, Malstrom was wrong, and Blue Ocean is only a sea, just bigger than average!!!   

Edit @The Ghost of Very Original Haircut:

This.

Damn, way more than I expected

I wonder what PS3 will do when it hits $199.99 if it's stabalising at ~220k from $300.

Sales for PS3 should be ~45 Million by the time it reaches that price.

I wonder if PS3 can eventually pull off 100 Million +

BTW, are there data for the other consoles in America?

Edit: sorry, nevermind, I found Brett's article. 

Hm, I never really put thought into how much the Wii would sell after the price-cut. These are some nice sells!

Let's see how it would do in the holidays, I know it'll be Huge, but how huge?

Great for Wii but what's amazing is the PS3! I was pretty much expecting a drop but an Increase? Never even thought of it.

So it seems that the PS3 has a leg to stand on now. I wonder how it will do WW specially in Others.

^^agree, how well do you guys think it did in PAL

doubled in NA? That's significantly more than I expected.

  The Wii? Probably very well, considering last week was 85K and only a couple of days of price drop in Europe, I'd say probably 120-150K for Wii in europe