Sony drops PS3 price a bit

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The price cut probably won't come to any of the other territories...not yet anyway, Sony simply can't afford it. If they did drop the price world-wide they would dig themselves into such a deep hole they would never get out of it. Also Sony have no reason to drop the price in North America, I've heard the demand is exceeding the supply there! (with 1 million pre-orders so far (apparently) and only 400,000 units available on launch, so to the guys planning to just wait all day and night to just walk in and get one, good luck cause you probably won't get one!) and even if that pre-order number is also including Japan, that is still 500,000+ people (roughly) that won't be getting PS3s on launch and will have to wait till the next shipment (whenever that will be). Not to mention the price drop will cause an increase in pre-orders for the PS3 (in Japan that is), I hope Sony plan to ship a lot more units soon! I also won't be surprised if the European (including Australia/New Zealand) launch is further delayed cause Sony is struggling to meet the demand in North America/Japan...

I'm pretty confident the PS3 will be a huge success and won't die like many people are proclaiming, Sony have too much riding on it to just let it go the way of the Dodo, however, the PS3 will hurt Sony big time financially and it might take them quite a while before they start seeing positive numbers in relation to PS3. That is my take anyway, take with a grain of salt.

Sega was in the same position with the Dreamcast. Sink or float. And they launched at a (conceivably) better time. There was no competition, it was a powerful, well thoughout console, and had demand outstripping supply. hrmm...

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The most wanted chart doesn't indicate what they are going to buy. Mother 3 for GBA was always floating around in the top 10 in that chart for years and it barely sold when it finally came out.

Yeah, like I said there's no telling how well it'll sell, but there seems to be a lot of demand for the game and some people will feel it's worth buying a 360 for the game.

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