Comments on: PS3 - EUROPEAN PRICE CONFIRMATION

By: Kev51773

Kev51773 — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:56:28 +0000

Im sick of hearing people cry about the PS3 price. If you want to pay less and get half of a next gen console, go buy an xbox 360.

Â£425 is an absolute bargain for a blu-ray player.
And cheap for a pretty well feaured linux PC.

And before you all think ‘But I don’t want a blu-ray player’ slap yourselves for being so short sighted.

Next-gen (or is it current now?) Consoles have more memory, texture sizes are fantastically larger, more and more games are shipping with 5.1 sound. Yet they have to fit all of this onto the same size media as a first gen xbox? That can only lead to smaller games. The PS3 on the other hand has no such limitation.

Eventually Microsoft will of course, do a trademark U-turn, and allow HD-DVD media for games. Thereby ripping off all of the early adopters who will have to splash out for an updated console, or possibly the external drive.

By: TONY

TONY — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:53:27 +0000

how am i gonna afford ps3 at 425 . im probably better off buying 360

By: Dude

Dude — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:58:36 +0000

Isn’t this more than the E3 announced price? Anyone know why it has gone up?

By: Daev Dones

Daev Dones — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:26:03 +0000

Â£30 more if you live in the UK !!! YER I DON’T THINK SO,I will leave this to the film buffs which it seems with it’s drive and price will properly appeal to the most…………

By: Kabelo Segwai

Kabelo Segwai — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:05:07 +0000

What pisses me off most of all though, is that knowing all this, Sony will still be laughin’(at me at least) cos as a gadget freak and Playstation fanboy(not a sychophant;I recognise and call out when Sony fuck up) its still a sweet piece of hardware and at some point(normally a launch day man, now not so sure) I will be picking one up.

By: Kabelo Segwai

Kabelo Segwai — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:56:38 +0000

The reason the Japanese model is so cheap apart from taxation is that the Japanese consumers made it known that they wouldnt pay the previously announced price.

Its just a shame that SCEE hasnt listened to consumers for nearly 5 years.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:38:19 +0000

Why is the PS3 so much cheaper in Japan? I think the price was around â‚¬340 for the 60GB model. Sony can’t blame it all on taxes.

By: Kabelo Segwai

Kabelo Segwai — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:32:34 +0000

Paying Â£425 for a PLAYSTATION 3 is like paying Â£35,000 for a MINI Cooper S. Totally ridiculous.

No matter what John Cooper Works and your local Halfords have done to it, its still a friggin’ MINI Cooper S.

This price point shows a company so completely out of touch it fucking embarrasing.

By the way, Sony will blame the retailers for the high price and ebay scalpers when it stops selling after the third week.

And before the Sony Sychophants start talking shit about ” yeah, but its real value for money, look at what you get!”

If all you are lookng for is a top notch games machine(90% of Playstation owners), there is no value to be found here.

There is however much taking of the piss!

By: Belfast Steps

Belfast Steps — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:08:43 +0000

Erm, does 25 quid really make that much difference?

By: Kabelo Segwai

Kabelo Segwai — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:05:22 +0000

Paying Â£425 for a PLAYSTATION 3 is like paying Â£35,000 for a MINI Cooper S.