I'm not only talking about the console, but games as well. I figure that the XBox and Gamecube will force the console prices down this summer, but with the continued shortage they aren't coming down until then.

Man, I put off buying a Dreamcast last fall because of worries about it's staying power and I want to get the PS2 now. But $300 for the system and $50 for each game kind of sucks right now.

I've only seen a few games like Gun Griffon Blaze and Billiards for less than $40. When do people expect the older PS2 games to start dropping in price?

rumor is that the japanese system is dropping in price within a month of it's one year anniversary. the price drop is equivalent to $100 US. I can see the US system dropping in price about the same time, in order to compete with the XBox and Game cube.

If this is true, it would probally be tocompete with Nintendo's gamecube which is sopposed to be at or below 199. However, this is seriously going to hurt Sony. With a 100 drop they will be losing nearly 200 bucks per console. ouch.

Yeah, I don't think we'll see a US PS2 price drop until later in the summer at the earliest. I think GC and X-Box will definitely force a price drop. As for game price dropping, I don't know...I'd doubt we'd see anything because Sony's already losing money selling the hardware. I think the software prices will stay where they are so that money can be made there.

Of course, you could buy a Dreamcast--there's lots of great games out there for it that are very, very cheap.

I'm guessing September for the console, probably a $100 drop. As for games, probably now that a lot of them are being relaeased there's be a few that will drop to $25, but those will only be the crappy games.