PS3 Price Cut CONFIRMED

[swifty]

@469 you better believe it I buy it specially now with firmware 1.8

 

[Kmack]

This sux, because I already own one I should have just waited

 

[Super Kal]

cool... still can't afford it though

 

[Timstuff]

This sux, because I already own one I should have just waited

I don't really care because I got my 20GB for $400, which is probably cheaper than the system will be even after the price drop.

I would have paid more if there had been any 60GB ones available back then though.

 

[CrypticOne]

http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/1354.html

We seem to be running around in circles covering this topic at least once or twice every week, but the more confirmations of a PS3 price-drop we get, the merrier. We've had numerous high-profile executives comment on the status of a price-drop, but none of them as high as Sony CEO, Sir Howard Stringer. Speaking to the Financial Times again, Stringer states a plan on 'refining' the price of the PS3.


Off the bat, the interviewer asked Stringer about the PlayStation 3, Stringer was quick to give kudos to Nintendo: "I would be the first to say to you that Nintendo Wii has been a successful enterprise and a very good business model compared to ours... Because it's cheaper."

"While people have not bought as many PlayStation 3s as it looks, it is no different from PS2 and PS1 in terms of percentage of sales. I think that the public would like the cost to be lower, there’s no question about that." When the Financial Times reporter asked Sir Stringer about what price-point the price-cut could entail, "That’s what we’re studying at the moment; that’s what we’re trying to refine," said Stringer.

When asked if we'd be seeing a price-cut before Christmas (holiday season), Stringer boldly stated "Yes, of course." He commented on the PS2's continuing success, as well as the PSP's "upward spiral" thanks to its price-cut.

"So I think PlayStation 3’s travails are usually solved by time. And it will have an instant gratification environment, not only in life but in the press as well as everything else. It’s a good story right now, 'Will PlayStation 3 get to Christmas?' And the answer is, of course it will get to Christmas."

On the topic of potential being used by the PlayStation 3's developers, Stringer said: "It takes a long time for producers, and more time because of the cost factor, to embrace the full bandwidth of PlayStation 3. It’s only using 20 per cent of it right now. And producers will always wait to see how it’s going, and once they use the full bandwidth the games experience is stunning."

You can read the full transcript here (you may have to sign up to read it. Use bugmenot.com to bypass): http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ebccb53a-1a9b-11dc-8bf0-000b5df10621.html

Thank you.

 

[Avangarde]

This sux, because I already own one I should have just waited

It always happens, and most of the time the first wave of game releases are rubbish so its just empty money getting a new system on release. Bring on the price drop and bring on GTA4 & FFXIII

 

[kytrigger]

I don't really care because I got my 20GB for $400, which is probably cheaper than the system will be even after the price drop.

I would have paid more if there had been any 60GB ones available back then though.

Yeah, the only reason I really got one already was because of the discount I got. Ganestop did the $100 dollars off if you trade in a PS2 thing and I had a lot of other stuff I traded in because I never use them, so I only ended up paying about $160 for the 60 gig version.

 

[hippie_hunter]

It’ll never be a threat to the 360 or Wii until it lowers itself down to around $300.

That isn't going to happen. And it doesn't need to be that low either.

What the Playstation 3 needs to do is lower itself from the $600.00 price tag it has now and reduce it to $450.00 - $500.00 (considering that the Premium Costs $400.00 and pretty much no one gets the Core which I like to call the Xbox 3$#!tty).

Build up its game library which is happening with games such as Heavenly Sword, Lair, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Final Fantasy XIII, and others comming out later this year and early next year. Though they'll have stiff competition with Microsoft releasing Halo 3 and Nintendo releasing Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Mario Galaxy.

Suck it up and drop the "We're Sony Attitude, People Will Buy It Regardless" and get 3rd Parties to start developing exclusives for them. If it weren't for their arrogance we'd probably see Devil May Cry 4, Grand Theft Auto IV, and Assassin's Creed as Playstation 3 exclusives. Now that Kutaragi is gone and Sony pretty much admitting that they f**ked up. I can see them courting 3rd parties to try and get Devil May Cry 5, Grand Theft Auto V, Silent Hill 5, and Assassin's Creed 2 exclusive for the Playstation 3.

 

[Zenien]

Alledgedly, and this comes from the 1UP crew on 1UP Yours, Sony is heavily money hatting some really big money hats for 2008, not for established franchised but trusted AAA developers making exclusive PS3 projects on the console. We'll see if that pans out.

 

[kytrigger]

Alledgedly, and this comes from the 1UP crew on 1UP Yours, Sony is heavily money hatting some really big money hats for 2008, not for established franchised but trusted AAA developers making exclusive PS3 projects on the console. We'll see if that pans out.

Okay, I kinda feel like an idiot, but what does that mean? I assume you mean they are paying a lot of money for exclusives.

 

[Havok83]

Okay, I kinda feel like an idiot, but what does that mean? I assume you mean they are paying a lot of money for exclusives.

Sony is paying alot of money to some big name developers to create some new franchises exclusively for hte PS3. Think of Capcom creating DMC for the PS2 for example

 

[Zenien]

For those who didn't understand it don't feel bad. Gramtically speaking that post didn't make sense.

I basically said Sony was money hatting big money hats, or giving money to big giving money... money

if you will.

Basically Sony is heavilly money hatting some big name devs.

 

[Havok83]

For those who didn't understand it don't feel bad. Gramtically speaking that post didn't make sense.

I basically said Sony was money hatting big money hats, or giving money to big giving money... money

if you will.

Basically Sony is heavilly money hatting some big name devs.

Haha, I think you just made it more confusing than your original post was

 

[Zenien]

Sony is paying alot of money to some big name developers to create some new franchises exclusively for hte PS3. Think of Capcom creating DMC for the PS2 for example.

Fixed.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

Sony is paying alot of money to some big name developers to create some new franchises exclusively for hte PS3. Think of Capcom creating DMC for the PS2 for example.

Fixed.

Yeah, because Sony's done such an amazing job of talent-grabbing over the years. (Killzone)

I'll let you live-up Killzone one day Zenien. Just... not today. t:

 

[Zenien]

Suck it old man, Killzone Liberation has like close to an 80 percent average on game rankings and all those reviews came out before the multiplayer was added or the final chapter oif the game.

 

[hippie_hunter]

So, it has the taint of the Killzone franchise. Which makes it suck automatically.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

which big name developers have sony contracted to develop for them?

 

[Zenien]

Hasn't been revealed yet.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

well do you know of any?

 

[Zenien]

All I could theorize is that Bioware is one of them, since the President of Bioware confirmed some decent amount of months back that their company is developing for the PS3.

Aside from that we haven't heard anything, and that might not be the stuff the 1UP gus were all mentioning.

Since Bioware's PS3 development could be just a PS3 version of Dragon Age, or it could be a slated PS3 version of their upcoming MMO, both those projects aren't necessarilly exclusive or exclusionatory to any of the platforms.

Dragon Age has already been confirmed for the PC, who knows what other two console it will hit.

 

[XtromaniaK]

All I could theorize is that Bioware is one of them, since the President of Bioware confirmed some decent amount of months back that their company is developing for the PS3.

Aside from that we haven't heard anything, and that might not be the stuff the 1UP gus were all mentioning.

Since Bioware's PS3 development could be just a PS3 version of Dragon Age, or it could be a slated PS3 version of their upcoming MMO, both those projects aren't necessarilly exclusive or exclusionatory to any of the platforms.

Dragon Age has already been confirmed for the PC, who knows what other two console it will hit.

I'd highlight that point. I doubt Bioware would develop exclusively for the PS3 if it was one of their high-key projects like Mass Effect or a MMO at this point. PS3's install base isn't large enough to support the sales that they would want out of those games, especially a MMO.

I would love to see a PS3 and Xbox 360-based MMO that mixes the two install bases into one server, though. That would be hilarious beyond all possible reason. The server-wide chat would be filled with a bunch of "PS3 SUX!!! MY VERSION IZ BETTER, N00bz!" or "XBOX 180 DOES'NT HAV TEH POWA OF DA CELL, THATZ WAI XBOTZ SUK!" The amount of enjoyment I could get from that games chat alone would be worth $10 or so a month.

 

[Zenien]

The MOO better be KoToR based as rumored.

If Anything Dragon age wwould probably be the game that ends up as a PC/PS3 exclusive, since Sony already has a decent amoutn of MMOs planned. That is if Bioware is one of the money hatted companies.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

any other companies? vivienda(sp?)? bethesda(i know they got oblivion), obsidian? any others?


make a list for me woman!

 

[Zenien]

Bungie.