Research in Motion’s first stab at a tablet device, the BlackBerry PlayBook, isn’t really doing all that well.  The hardware is pretty good, but, the software has been weighed, measured, and found wanting.  We’ve seen pricing on the PlayBook drop 40% to 50% and even more in some cases, and, although RIM is calling the decrease in price special discounting to improve sell through (it’s all semantics as far as consumers are concerned), the PlayBook today will cost you significantly less than it did a couple of weeks ago.

The question for RIM, however, is has the pricing on the BlackBerry PlayBook been discounted enough now that the Kindle Fire, Amazon’s new Android Tablet has been introduced with a $199 price point.

I’d love to hear your take.  Leave us a comment and let us know if you think the Kindle Fire will force RIM to discount the BlackBerry PlayBook  more than it already has…