While EA is “committed to the PS3,” Peter Moore, head of EA’s sports games division, told Bloomberg that “Sony obviously still has a ways to go with their pricing.” His comments echo statements made within the past two weeks by other EA execs, including CFO Eric Brown and Glen Schofield, GM of EA’s Redwood Shores studio; both execs expressed concern about Sony’s strategy for the PS3 moving forward (via SAI). Without quality games, the PS3 is as good as dead, but Sony is facing a bit of a catch-22, since the relatively slim library of hits is what has kept some gamers from buying the console, regardless of the price.

The other issue is that Sony just can’t afford to come down on the price right now. It’s still losing about $50 on every PS3 it manufactures, an improvement from the roughly $259 it lost on every console back when it launched in 2006. Sluggish electronics sales already forced Sony to slash 8,000 jobs and cut production across its various electronics divisions; Peter Dille, SVP of marketing for Sony Computer Entertainment America told Bloomberg that there was no immediate plan to reduce prices, since the company was concerned with profitability—not just increasing the user install base.

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