Hello.............I think this is the price of evolving technology. If you want an electronic instrument as soon as it's released you are going to pay full price. If the instrument's a sucess and it goes into increased production the price goes down as they sell more. Yamaha knows exactly what it's doing coming out with the PSR3000. They will sell 25 times as many of them than their higher priced Tyros............and THEY are the ones laughing all the way to the bank. The Tyros is fantastic, but I never thought it was worth 3 times what I paid for my PSR2000. I can't wait until the PSR3000 is out. I may even pay full price!!