obviously Sony isn't that stupid; they know that the PS3 isn't making them the kind of money that they want, partially if not mainly because of its price. and their goal isn't to lose money on their product. after considering all of the expenses it costs to actually make a PS3 (staff, hard ware, shipping, advertising ect...) they at least have to make a minimum amount of cash to cover all of that, and then they want to land in the positive end of sales rather than negative or some one is getting their ass fired. sooo... obviously all of the expenses that the PS3 costs Sony aren't as much as their original price, and presumably, are also not as much as the "revised" price. assuming Sony is just like any other capitalistic corporation who's only real goals are to make more money and not please anyone (even if they have to please people to make money) they are going to shoot for a product that costs them the minimum to make, and they can still sell it for the maximum. Well assuming that the $600 price tag was over the maximum value to most target consumers (seeing as hardly anyone bought it); and also judging by the fact that they were overly ambitious, hoping that people would actually pay $600 to play a few games and watch a few movies once in a while (minus the hardcore gamers i.e. target consumers). then they probably aren't going to lower their standards too much with the "revised" price. since in the first place they wanted to make Uber cash with the $600 price tag, they most likely still want to make a lot, but also still want to sell the PS3. in conclusion; I'd say they are still going to have a fairly high price tag, say around the same as the 360, even though the actual financial worth of it all isn't as much the actual price.
oh and for every one who thinks people are buying it JUST for the blue-ray because its the cheapest one out there, i just saw a blue-ray DVD player on the best buy website for $500 as opposed to the currently $600 PS3.
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obviously Sony isn't that stupid; they know that the PS3 isn't making them the kind of money that they want, partially if not mainly because of its price. and their goal isn't to lose money on their product. after considering all of the expenses it costs to actually make a PS3 (staff, hard ware, shipping, advertising ect...) they at least have to make a minimum amount of cash to cover all of that, and then they want to land in the positive end of sales rather than negative or some one is getting their ass fired. sooo... obviously all of the expenses that the PS3 costs Sony aren't as much as their original price, and presumably, are also not as much as the "revised" price. assuming Sony is just like any other capitalistic corporation who's only real goals are to make more money and not please anyone (even if they have to please people to make money) they are going to shoot for a product that costs them the minimum to make, and they can still sell it for the maximum. Well assuming that the $600 price tag was over the maximum value to most target consumers (seeing as hardly anyone bought it); and also judging by the fact that they were overly ambitious, hoping that people would actually pay $600 to play a few games and watch a few movies once in a while (minus the hardcore gamers i.e. target consumers). then they probably aren't going to lower their standards too much with the "revised" price. since in the first place they wanted to make Uber cash with the $600 price tag, they most likely still want to make a lot, but also still want to sell the PS3. in conclusion; I'd say they are still going to have a fairly high price tag, say around the same as the 360, even though the actual financial worth of it all isn't as much the actual price. oh and for every one who thinks people are buying it JUST for the blue-ray because its the cheapest one out there, i just saw a blue-ray DVD player on the best buy website for $500 as opposed to the currently $600 PS3.