Will the madness ever stop?!?

The latest release of the PS3 has created quite a fuss. People are camping out for days just to spend their money on a gaming system. Some intelligent people have bought them and sold them on the internet making quite a hefty prophet. But this is so stupid! The first system to come out was around a hundred bucks, now the latest and greatest syatem is a whopping 600 dolars!!! The problem is, is that theres no hint of any reduction in price anytime soon. It's just going to keep going up and up untill, logically, pretty soon no one will ever buy them anymore. You'll need to get a second morgage on your house just to have a PS17 or an XBOX 7020! I understand the developers want to make money, but they have started crossing the line as of late.