I got the Best Buy and Circuit City Sunday ads today, and the 80gb Motorstorm bundles are STILL being advertised as $599.  Sony must not have given retailers enough warning to change their ads in time. They send those things to the printers at least a month in advance. 

I wonder how this will effect post-price drop sales?   

The toys r us magazine is retailing the 80gb for $599.99 as well. Retailers are denying the price cut O_O

I went to Best Buy and the PS3s were locked in a cage...

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Also, Vgchartz gave me an error as I was writing a 7 paragraph essay...

I'm pissed.

I HATE it when stuff like that happens. I feel for ya man.

At my best buy the ps3 is not even on store shelves, its all the way in the customer service area. And the ps3 games are all the way in the back off the store... not in the video game sections...wierd.. The 360 and wii are the only ones on shelves.

 Yup happened with me aswell.  That is why I always write things in my notebook much safer.

Retailers are probably taking a bath on the PS3. Don't forget that they have to pay for the PS3 within 60 days of its arrival. So many of them will have paid ~$580 for it before Sony announced the price drop. I'm under the impression that retailers have been bitten a few times with the PS3 already, so perhaps they don't want to drop the price of the bundle and would like to first recover some of their costs.

I would imagine that Sony would normally have some sort of insurance program to help retailers in these cases, but considering the huge losses Sony's games division just posted (about 850 million) I don't think they're in any position to help retailers out beyond anything they've provided in writing.

And retailers had no reason to suspect a price drop. Sony said they wouldn't price drop, and the PS3 is about a year before it should have price dropped.

 I just copy the article before sumbitting.  If it doesn't submit, I press back a few times, then paste what I just copied.

Ummm you don't want to piss retailers off... they will drop your product pretty fast if they feel they are getting screwed.

So, does anyone want to discuss how this advertising will effect sales? A price drop won't do much if nobody knows about it.