Sony kicked 'yo ass foo!

[Jonathan Meer]

I never said that it wasn't a reasonable business move to lower the price in that case. Its original price was WAY too high of an investment for most consumers to make.

That's true. The original price was high.

You're misrepresenting things that I'm saying and trying to put words into my mouth. Sony "at fault"? I just think that they don't have enough prospects to reasonably start taking slices out of the 360/Wii userbase, even with a price cut. So, I think that this is probably about the fact that they're selling less systems than they want to right now than a sign of strength.

If I'm misrepresenting what you're saying or putting words in your mouth, I apologize. It's unintentional.

I'm still not sure how 'them changing the price for the sake of selling more systems' is a sign of weakness. Microsoft has dropped the price of their systems in the past, and I imagine it was also because they were selling fewer systems than they would have liked.

Like I've said before, they're taking big hits on every system sold. Taking $100 more is not something that you would do every day, and certainly not a move of strength when your console is a distant third in userbase.

Not-so-distant third. And it's a bit misleading to compare either Microsoft or Sony against the Wii. It constitutes a separate territory in the video game market at this point.

They were taking big hits on every system sold. Last I heard, while they're not making a profit (it's rather uncommon for a console to do that), the manufacturing cost of the components of the PS3 has been significantly reduced in recent years. I don't know if it's such a big hit anymore.