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PS3 to see Price Drop

January 13, 2009 in Rumor comments 14

The mPS3 has been the most expensive console on the market for quite a while now, leading to it's below-par sales and Sony losing millions. Now Sony is finally giving in, hoping to increase sales by dropping their prices in 2009-below their production cost.

PlayStation 3 will see its price cut to 299 USD this April, with Microsoft to follow soon after by reducing the cost of its Xbox 360 Pro to 249 USD around the time of this year's E3 - that's according to industry Cassandra Michael Pachter, making his predictions for the year ahead in his latest NPD preview.
Joseph Leito via ps3.ign.com »
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  • 1
    Slumpy monkey Jan 13, 09
    Good thing, Maybe this will pay off for them. But do you think its in vein as MS is dropping its price's too?
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    Blackfalcon Jan 13, 09
    $299? That doesn't sound too different to me...

    Just converted it into Euros. Holy *bleep*, that's awesome!!! =D Please do it soon, Sony!!!
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    Aether Jan 13, 09
    About the same as mine was, I love Pre-Owned stuff.
  • 0
    Stefan Jan 13, 09
    that used to be £150.

    dam pound doing shite right now!
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    BlackLabel Jan 13, 09
    Below-par sales? If the PS3 is below-par and it is catching up with the much cheaper Xbox 360 then what is the Xbox 360? I am really getting tired of ill informed people putting the Playstation 3 down for something it isn't even doing. It really is getting almost as ridiculous as people over exagerating the RRoD issue these days.
    • 0
      Red 9 Jan 14, 09
      Agreed. It's turning into a meme of the gaming market; "let's hate the PS3 and exaggerate the RRoD 'cause we're too good for normal lifestyles!"
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    dmf_dynasty Jan 13, 09
    This is just according to an analyst, not official.

    And how much does a 360 cost to make? They're cutting the price all the damn time.
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    R1DDL3S Jan 13, 09
    Good news to me. I wonder how much the sales will increase if this really does happen.

    although I doubt that the 360 will lower the price too much
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      Slumpy monkey Jan 13, 09
      Its lowering to $249 for the Pro/Premium. Its in the source.
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        Nagare* Jan 14, 09
        Ah, I thought that was just speculation.
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    Dragoshi1 Jan 13, 09
    >:[


    I payed 350 for a used one, and they go and announce a price drop!?
  • 0
    ChozenMaster Jan 14, 09
    The PS3 is finally gonna sell. It is priced to sell with some of the other $299 blu-ray players as well as putting it in "regular console price" ball park range. Guess sony said "We're already losing money. What the hell..." Its good to hear about a price drop but it's too bad as well because they were almost about to break even on every PS3 made.
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    EOM Bassist Jan 14, 09
    So, effectively Sony are killing themselves. But it's a shame that they have to. I mean, they've only just broke even haven't they? And now they are selling at a loss.
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      Red 9 Jan 15, 09
      quote EOM Bassist
      So, effectively Sony are killing themselves. But it's a shame that they have to. I mean, they've only just broke even haven't they? And now they are selling at a loss.
      I really doubt this price drop is real. There was a recent article stating against this.

      WTF, killing themselves? Get off the hate train, they're not killing themselves, regardless of what they do. I'm just getting tired of seeing every other comment mention Sony as murdering their own baby...

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