Roland DID raise prices. The Fantom G line had a price increase a while back. Korg is reducing prices.., Roland raised the Fantom G's..., but is using the Juno G price drops trying to get a good hold on the budget workstation market. Roland continues to release very notable updates for the Juno-G and most recently turned the Juno-G into a sample workstation. Yamaha has done very little for MO owners at this point..., Korg has left a lot of room for the M50 line for updates too.

What bothers me is Yamaha jacked prices on gear AFTER it had been out for a while. Are they going to drop them back down eventually or take advantage of keeping those prices hiked so they can get even more money on the price increase with the new models by getting everyone used to the price hike first. If they keep prices where they are now with the jacks take into consideration how much that price increase will be on the new gear if they go on these current price jacks. There's only a $200 price difference between a PSR-S900 and a Korg M3 at the moment. Yamaha's price jack was on quite a few products. Just because Roland didn't jack all their prices doesn't mean somethings wrong on their end. Info I got was that Roland's Fantom G's prices before the increase was for introductory prices. Yamaha's price increase on the Motif XS line (at the time of the increase) was well past introductory.

I can understand Roland's price hike..., there's quite a bit the G does above all the others in terms of navigation.., Yamaha had to follow up to that. Yamaha waited a long time before jacking the Motif line's price.



[This message has been edited by squeak_D (edited 05-15-2009).]