PlayStation 3 will have to fall in price by $ 50-100

Game publishers are putting pressure on Sony to lower the cost of the PlayStation 3 gaming device, otherwise they threaten to reallocate budgets in favor of the competing Nintendo Wii product, which has already cut off half of the global gaming consoles market. According to analysts , Sony will be forced to drop from the price tag from $ 50 to $ 100.

Currently, the cheapest PS3 configuration costs $ 400, which is $ 200 more expensive than the cheapest Xbox 360 and $ 150 more expensive than the Wii. At the same time, the PS3 doubles in the number of users of the same Wii.

Analysts forecast 28 million Wii, 14 million PS3 and 9.7 million Xbox 360 for the next year. The price reduction for PS3 will instantly transpose the market (when in October 2007 the price dropped from $ 500 to $ 400, then sales more than doubled, and instantly ).
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If the situation remains the same, the major game developers will finally turn their back on the former leader. For example, following last year’s results, the world's largest game publisher, Activision Blizzard, received only 19% of its “console” revenues from PS3, while 32% came from Wii.

via Bloomberg