You can say the same for a PS3, heck, you wanna add some pretty skins to it, maybe some decals and some flashing LED's while you're at it? You can make anything cost a lot of money if you bombard it with accessories you don't need.
WIRELESS PLUG? What? I don't need that.
Let's say for a second (this isn't a stretch) that the PS3 loses USD $100 each time they sell one. Reducing the price means they'd be losing a bit more... so, every sale COSTS Sony money.
This price cut is an investment in their future. At the cost of selling more PS3's they'll hope to gain more 3rd party coverage (esp. given third party developers are begging for a price drop so they can sell games on this console). We won't see a huge investment until the drop occurs, it lands ...
So much angst :) Yes, I'm enjoying my "huge boost" in adsense revenue ;-) You obviously don't know how focused flash traffic works when they come to a website to read an article. Anyone that's "fishing for adsense boosts" probably wants to work more on organic search results, less on pops from other websites. Not sure where you're getting your numbers from on that, but impressions with adsense don't make you money.
Besides not being the one to submit the artic...
Thanks for the feedback/comments, after seeing the referrals rise I found the source of the chaos was here :-)
Thanks for those with constructive feedback, I appreciate the time you took to read through the article, no matter if you're in agreement or not. Granted, far too many people have nothing good to say but yell and scream and curse my name, but such is life on the Net and it's anonymous aspects.
For the record, I'm not a "fanboy" of any console. I'...
This isn't a friend said a friend said. It's one reference off, a person I know said.
How do I know? Because it was me that wrote it :)