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The over-wealth of P&S frankly makes no sense. It cannot be economically efficient to have price points every 20-40 bucks. While it may have created the condition where everyone at Firm X has a great idea for a P$S and a laundry list of the "Right" bells and whistles they went off to development with ideas in hand and few were turned down. While it does seem each manufacturer is playing price point off price point, we now have an overabundance of P&S. The industry analysts reports went unread and the resulting market is messy.

My guess is if we check back in 9-12 months, we will see a reduced set of offerings from each producer. This wave of excess is the result of the fact that these cameras are cheap to produce. Also lots of modular parts if I had a guess/ No miracles, but I doubt we will see a similar frenzy of options again/