14 DAY TRIAL // Everyone is saying: if Sony thought of cutting the price on that PS3 of theirs, people might just start buying. But saying it over and over and over again sounds like someone's trying to push the company into doing so early. Nonetheless, nobody would mind if the company actually did so, myself included, but such manner of presenting the world with the issue is becoming rather unhealthy.
As The Street.com says, according to the latest numbers from the U.S. and Japan, sales of Sony's PS3 are even weaker than the dismal January figures showed. "An unusually early price cut may be Sony's best shot at salvaging the product's performance." There you have it: "an unusually price cut may be Sony's best shot..." Isn't the whole world already aware that Sony's system is rather expensive? Give it a brake, will you!
Moving on, NPD Group issued PS3 February sale numbers. They showed that in comparison to Nintendo's Wii sales dipping from 426,000 in January to 335,000 in February, Sony's PS3 sales slumped from 244,000 in January to 127,000 in February. Quite a deep fall for Sony's system. The comparison with Nintendo's Wii has been made to show that Wii's sales drop in February was due to lack of titles, while Sony's problem was again price related.
What is indeed something that Sony should be concerned of is the fact that in Japan, February and March, launched titles didn't do anything to help out with the sale of PS3 units, contrary to forecasts. Price cut? They can do that anytime, but not selling units even though there are great titles out there...well, let's just hope for Sony's sake that people haven't lost interest in the PS3. Even if the launch in PAL territories goes smoothly, they're losing quite a bit if Japanese and US PlayStation fans lose faith. Cutting the price for the PS3 would however be a good step towards regaining lost fans.