So it’s August and before we know it the Christmas shopping rush will be here. Sony’s Playstation 3 will be entering it’s 4th Christmas in the video gaming market. And the rumor’s have been swirling around lately that there will be a big announcement for the PS3.
Basically Sony announced that the PS3’s production cost’s have dropped to around $250. That is definitely a lot less than what it was before, making like no profit on the $399 80GB version. It is looking like a price cut is in store.
In Japan there was a leaked note saying that the 80GB PS3 will not be available in Japan after August 9th. And the 160GB version is not sold in Japan so that would leave retailers without PS3’s to sell.
Also there have been rumors of a slim PS3 too. There have been some leaked photo’s that show a slimmer PS3 and a different PS3 logo.
And another rumor has been Gran Turismo 5 will have it’s release announced soon, probably at the August 18th Gamescon convention in Germany.
So all sign’s lately have Sony making some kind of huge announcement then.
My thought’s are that Sony, if they cut the price and put out a slimmer PS3 will have a good season sale’s wise. Releasing GT5 this year will only help. I’m thinking of a PS3 price cut to what I think maybe $299-$325 bundled with GT5 would be a huge seller. And in Japan do the same price cut and bundle the PS3 with Final Fantasy 13 which hits Japan this year. The Japanese love Final Fantasy and the PS3 saw huge sales with the release of just the demo earlier this year. We’ll see what Sony does to increase sales,because they definitely need to do something in my opinion.
