At one point all of about five or six years ago we would have all still considered Sony a giant in the gaming world even WITH the release of the XBOX. These days we consider them to be simply unprofitable. Kaz Hirai told The Times Online that the PS3 slim is still sold at a loss relative to manufacturing cost. We find this an irony especially when they're using more cost efficient parts and it has already been reported that the manufacturing cost has dropped almost 70%. Again we state the fact that they would have been better off just releasing something like this from the get go at around this price point, or even waiting out the BluRay boom to sync price points with already manufactured quantities instead of sex the money right out of the general consumers pocket. It's a wee bit of an irony that their last generation system is the only thing holding up thier next gen system's head above the water. Face it folks, if people stop buying PS2 games and PS2s we all know it's not going to be because they're replacing them with PS3s.

Sony, you would have been better off with a large hit from the beginning as all business models are. You would have recouped your gains. We think you should fire your consultants and hire some of us. We're not talking smack but we think a monkey with a TI-82 could better prodict the current market trends and gaming fads. In fact, we got $5 on it.