Price war looms for gaming systems: Silver lining: price cuts could spur demand for semis

Electronic News, Nov 26, 2001 by Peter Brown

However, lower prices for games could cause consumers to reconsider. "Hopefully, game makers lowering prices will blow out all their inventories. Maybe consumers will say this is a reasonable price and decide to buy. This will help everyone in the electronics industry, but component inventories are still enormous. Components this year for the consumer industry have already been shipped," Perris said.

Bernard Levine and Jeff Chappell contributed to this report.

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