Sony Looks to 'Refine' PS3 Price

Via GameDaily a Financial Times interview with with Sir Howard Stringer, Sony's CEO, gives fans the first hope that price cuts may be coming soon. Lauding the Wii's performance in last month's NPD numbers, Stringer says that Sony is looking to 'refine' the PS3's pricepoint. "'Nintendo Wii has been a successful enterprise, and a very good business model, compared with ours . . . because it's cheaper,' Mr Stringer said in a video interview. 'That [price cuts] is what we are studying at the moment. That's what we are trying to refine.' Sir Howard said he expected 'energy [in PS3 sales] by Christmas, and then you will begin to see break-out games'. Sony is launching a virtual-world game called Home this year, and up to 30 other games."

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Re:It's still a good buy as just a blue ray player

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as they cost more then ps3

No, no they don't.

and they are missing a few blue ray features

What do you know about it? You can't even spell blu-ray.

Regardless, what is the sony BDP player missing but ethernet? Will you not be able to do PIP? Oh noes!!!11!!11ones!

and it plays games as well as running linux.

What games? There's like two worth buying.

And as for Linux, it's running in a Hypervisor intended to keep you from fully utilizing the hardware. The point of running Linux is that it is open, not just that it's Unix. For less money I can get a far more useful system. The system has only 256MB of system memory (that's all you can use for Linux) so it's horribly anemic as a computer. Xbox's shared memory makes it much more desirable as a Linux box and Free/free Linux is making headway there.