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AAG Rumor: EA's unhappiness with PSN outage could lead to Sony reducing PS3 price

May 12, 2011 in Rumor comments 10

The Playstation Network being down so long is causing headaches for Sony left, right and center. With pressure coming from all angles whether it be the gamers or publishers and developers, could Sony be forced to reduce the price of the PS3? Find out what All Age Gaming have learned from an anonymous source.

CraigAAG via allagegaming.com »
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    reaver11 May 12, 11
    Interesting, but I think they should worry about getting the network up and running to full capacity again.
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      CraigAAG May 12, 11
      Yeah I agree reaver11, but that's just what I got told.
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    Coi Cki May 12, 11
    I doubt this, seeing as the outage hasn't effected the sales of the PS3.
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      Laxman216 May 13, 11
      Actually, you are quite wrong. The outage has severly affected not only sales of the PS3, but the Xbox 360 too. Only difference is, Xbox is getting sales from people trading thier PS3 towards one becuase of the outage.
      A price drop would be an attempt for Sony to get back some of the sales they didnt get becuase of this, and also to get back the customers who switched to the 360.
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      ShadowJ May 16, 11
      May not have affected PS3 sales but it has affected the developers and publishers that sell things through PSN or create games for the PS3. Not to mention there have been many that have dropped Sony and the PS3 and moved over to Microsoft and 360.

      In other words, just because this hasn't affected the console sales (Which while the security flaw was around and people could literally do anything with their PS3, people were grabbing them like hot cakes) doesn't mean there hasn't been repercussions.

      Capcom has lost hundreds of thousands, if not millions due to all of this and those guys were all about the console. Now they are focusing on the PC more, which they have been doing for the last few years, kind of tells you something really
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        longview01 May 16, 11
        wtf....who dropped the PS3 to go to 360?
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    ZL May 13, 11
    I can see this happening considering that GameStop just recently released a $100 off coupon towards a new PS3 to selected PowerUp Rewards Members.

    With that in mind, two things will either happen. One, the PS3 will most likely get a price reduction in E3. Two, a new model is coming out, so Gamestop is trying to get rid of older models asap. Or it can be a bit of both, where they'll be a $200 price version of the PS3 with a basic HDD storage space and the regular $300 version with more storage space than last time.
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    Dragoon* May 13, 11
    If the price is reduced I can actually see me getting one of these for myself.

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