is ps3 going down £200 in the next month!?

Question

i was looking in a mag i read it what do you think?

Answer 1

I've read (on N4G.com ) that the UK price for the 60GB unit is soon to come down to £369 and a 40GB unit is due soon for £299.
These are, allegedly, only rumours but there seems to be quite a few about, and some people are expecting Sony to make an announcement within the next few days.
But i highly doubt a drop to £200.

Edit: well the sources were nearly spot-on. As of the 10th, the 60GB will be £349 with 2 games, and the 40GB will be £299 (but not have PS2 backwards compat.)

Answer 2

All the time the I-gotta-have-one mob go racing out to by these over-priced toys the more the price stays up. It would only take one concerted effort, by enough strong-willed people to hold back from a launch, and the price would drop within weeks due to oversupply. Down by £200? Should have been £200 to start with!
Thats why they got there a**e kicked in monthly sales by Xbox, Wii, DS and PSP.
Sony just never click on to the fact its better to sell 3 million consoles at £200 than to sell 500,000 at £450.

If they set the market price at £250 on launch day, I've no doubts they'd have dominated the market. But as usual they did exactly what they did with the PSP. Is it any wonder the Wii and DS outsell them?

Answer 3

specific it relatively is. The PS3 could seem high priced on the beginning up yet think of roughly it: Your gona purchase subscriptions to Xbox stay this is approximately 60$ a 300 and sixty 5 days, a chargeable battery to your controller, an intercooler, (the geared up n fan sucks) Thats a minimum of like $a hundred and ten extra effective awesome there. If i've got been you i might purely shop my money

Answer 4

What a bunch of garbage. PS3 is making less sales then XBOX 360 and Nintendo Wii that they can't put the price down. There's no way. Sony would go broke if it ever happened.

Answer 5

I highly doubt it.
I've also heard that they don't make much profit on the actual console itself as it costs a hefty amount to manufacture. Especially with the blu ray.
I can't see them making any price cuts until they start making a decent amount of profit and as an example, with the release of Halo 3, this will be the first time that Microsoft will make 'profit' since the launch of the 360.

Answer 6

Look at this:

http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/10243/11267/sony-ps3-price-cut-official.phtml

Sony releasing a 40GB version for about £370 (£350 maybe but up to retailers) and swapping hardware backward compatibility with software backward compatibility through firmware updates. Also removing 2 USB ports and the memory card reader but it has WiFi which is good.

Good news for PS3 fans :)

Answer 7

Jim P is right.... there have been TONS of rumors going around that SONY will be releaseing a cheaper, leaner 40GB PS3 for about $399 (USD).

If you go to:
http://www.ps3fanboy.com

you'll see a bunch of articles regarding this issue.

The rumor is that SONY has a "BIG BANG" announcement to make on October 12th, and it will be about the introduction of the 40GB version of the PS3.

HOPE THIS HELPS.

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Answer 8

I doubt it... I read somewhere ages ago that the price they sell it at is actually a bit cheaper then it costs to make it and they make all their money on games!! But it would be nice with christmas coming up!! xx

Answer 9

no chance i read in america they are going to make a 40 gigabite ps3 and sell it for about 400 dollars which would make it about £200 over here but they aint going to release them over here bas---ds just like to rip us off over here

Answer 10

the 40GB coming out in 4 days will be £299