If Sony drops the price of the PS3 again?

If Sony drops the price of the PS3 by 100 dollars before the holiday season would you pick up the new 80gb for $399?

by the way i have all three consoles!

80GB for $399 won't happen (unless these rumors about dropping backwards compatibility are true, which I doubt).

80GB for $499 is very likely, imo.

80GB for $399 won't happen (unless these rumors about dropping backwards compatibility are true, which I doubt).

80GB for $499 is very likely, imo.

fuzzysquash

They show they have no real direction and cant make up their minds. I would like to save some money, but I'm buying one when the games come out.Heil68

They show they have no real direction and cant make up their minds.Heil68

That was my initial impression. But having thought about it more, I think it's a very smart strategy.

Sony wants to have as many larger HDD models out there as possible, because they constitute a source for more potential revenue in the future in the form of PSN downloads.

That, in my estimate, is the reasoning behind the decision to shift to 80 GB. Dropping the 60 GB's price will stimulate demand until Christmas. As soon as the 60 GB sells out, Sony will drop the 80 GB to $499, which will happen before 2008, thus stimulating another wave of demand as a result of added value. Yet they do this at relatively low additional cost, because 20 extra gigs and discs of bundled games cost them little more but generate a lot of additional demand.

They need to drop the price to $250 to get my business. Really the only reason I'd even buy one then is mostly for the BC, and a few other games.jrhawk42

So you want the technology of the Playstation 3 for the price of the Wii? :?

[QUOTE="jrhawk42"]They need to drop the price to $250 to get my business. Really the only reason I'd even buy one then is mostly for the BC, and a few other games.fuzzysquash

So you want the technology of the Playstation 3 for the price of the Wii? :?

one good only hope though right

i think this is much more likely then people think- the 80GB is much cheaper then 60GB to make and so, once the 60GB are sold out, they can sell the 80GB for much cheaper. Maybe not $399 but maybe $449 by the time for the holidays.teldath

[QUOTE="Heil68"]They show they have no real direction and cant make up their minds.fuzzysquash

That was my initial impression. But having thought about it more, I think it's a very smart strategy.

Sony wants to have as many larger HDD models out there as possible, because they constitute a source for more potential revenue in the future in the form of PSN downloads.

That, in my estimate, is the reasoning behind the decision to shift to 80 GB. Dropping the 60 GB's price will stimulate demand until Christmas. As soon as the 60 GB sells out, Sony will drop the 80 GB to $499, which will happen before 2008, thus stimulating another wave of demand as a result of added value. Yet they do this at relatively low additional cost, because 20 extra gigs and discs of bundled games cost them little more but generate a lot of additional demand.

There's a rumor they'll release a 40 gig for $399. If that end up becoming true, back to the "they don't have real direction and can't make up their mind" comments. Sony really need to get their act together.

80GB for $399 won't happen (unless these rumors about dropping backwards compatibility are true, which I doubt).

80GB for $499 is very likely, imo.

fuzzysquash