Oh, you analysts. No one even has any idea who you are, but when you vague soothsayers talk, every gamer farts and listens, despite the fact that you guys never have any idea what the hell you're talking about.

We know that these same business school sages recently called Sony's Japanese price-cut "ridiculous." Now, they are positing that America could get a similar price cut as early as 2007. What reasons do they give? Is pure, unsupported speculation a reason?

This is an interesting point, though:

For Pachter, however, the critical news coming out of the Tokyo Game Show wasn't the price drop so much as it was the inclusion of HDMI in the low-end PS3. "This now tells me that I can get Blu-ray and I can play the output on my 1080p TV with the lower priced box. So it makes the higher priced [$600] box even less attractive, because you've got to really like wi-fi and lots of disk storage to pay an extra 100 bucks for that... It seems to me that maybe they're acknowledging that they shouldn't have pushed the higher priced box, and they're going to push the lower priced box," Pachter said.

That would certainly be nice. Florian Eckhardt

PS3 Price Cut Next Spring? [Gamedaily]

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