There’s nothing certain in this life but death, taxes and endless frustration at my inability to score with Monica Bellucci, but Peter Ha over at Cruchgear reads the tea leaves:

Increased output of blue-violet diodes hints at future price cuts. Production of the diode — a key ingredient of the PS3’s Blu-ray drive — is currently at 1.7 million a month and Sony is now prepared to up that to 5 million which will decrease Sony’s materials cost which should result in price cuts for the PS3.

I hope that the price does drop. And I hope it’s the biggest news of the entire year. I hope all this just because I laughed when people rushed out and bought $3000 PS3s off Ebay, just for the honor of having it about 10 days before their neighbors. The ultimate in “gotta have it now” mentality resulted in insanity for thousands, if not tens of thousands, of pimple-faced fanboys. It also resulted in enormous windfalls for those who bought the gaming consoles for sticker price and then played on the fanatics who couldn’t wait to get one, or couldn’t be bothered to turn off World of Warcraft for long enough to haul themselves down to Toys R Us or wherever to buy one. Sheesh.

I also hope the price drops so that I can buy one.

Hey, my hypocrisy runs only so far.

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