People will pay whatever they have to. Look at the xbox when it came out...$1,000 on eBay and mother fuckers were on it like flies on shit.
But to say they wouldn't make their money back is retarded...Honestly, how much do you all thinkthe plastic and little metal parts cost? You could make a PS3 for under $100 I bet. If not under $200 for sure. Probably less. They will lose a lot of market share if they jack the price up though...If I remember well enough the xbox and ps2 were hot shit when they came out and were relatively innovative.....but they weren't more than $300.
I wouldn't pay $1000 for that shit, nor would I pay $600. That's a waste of money. And the only games I would get would be Madden and GTA4 when it comes out because it's supposed to be the most realistic game of it's type. And I just read somethin about GTA4 comin out in October for the PS3-so maybe that's some insight for a release date...I dunno.