It will probably be quite the opposite. Sony has to know that their customers don't have that kind of cash to just throw around, and I would bet that the only people buying the PS3 on launch day will be lunatic fanboys and a few rich bastards. I certainly won't be buying one until the price...
"and then one day you'll find, ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun."
Not sure what to think of that wall of text, but whoever wrote it ripped off Pink Floyd quite nicely.