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EGM: So when might we see a price drop?
Kaz Harai: I'm not saying that we're suddenly going to do a price change tomorrow, but if you look at the history of how we've priced our products, from 12 years ago, you'll see our trends. I got the same questions back in the day: PS2, $299? That's not mass-market product, because the PS1 at the time was at $170, $149 bucks, whatever it was. I mean, how are you going to break into the mass market? Well, the PS2 is $129 now, and it's an absolute mass market product. So I think you can look at the trending line, and two years out, three years out--I'm not going to even make a prediction--but there's no guarantee that it's still going to be at $599 and $499. We may have a more expensive version; we may have a less expensive configuration. But it doesn't stay the same forever.
Seems like it might stay at the price for a while. Which would suck for majority of console buyers.
But saying that people thought $299 was not mass market? Come on, or that PS1 was $149 when PS2 came out, not much of a price difference. PS2 at $129 and a low end PS3 at $499, thats a big difference.
But yeah, what do you think about him saying that they might introduce a more expensive version? Good, Bad?