PS3 price drop coming sooner than later?

What goes up, must come down. At least that's what financial powerhouse, Goldman Sachs, is saying in their latest research note on the PS3.

Citing competitve pressures and an accelerated plan to reduce the PS3's manufacturing costs, Goldman Sachs analysts commented that "Sony's original PS began with 700 components and concluded with 200, while the PS2 started with 2,000 parts and finished with 600. The PS3 prototype had 4,000 components but now a shift to around 2,000 is in the pipeline."

That's definitely some major progress. Hopefully we'll see this savings passed onto the comsumers... but our bet is that this savings will go straight into Sony's corporate vaults.

PS3 price drop coming sooner than later? - PS3 Fanboy