How is microsoft, which is losing money on every console, going to get the price down to $150 in a year? That has never happened, and it will won't happen here. If they dropped it that much, that soon, it would say "we're afraid" and that's the last thing they want to do. They're already going to be cheaper than ps3 and have 2nd generation games out (halo 3 anyone?), they have nothing to fear from ps3's launch. Pretty games sell, we know that, but will anything at ps3 launch have substance in the gameplay? Who knows. Any report at this point in time about what will happen in 9 months is absolutely to be taken with a grain of salt...