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Seece said:
leatherhat said:
Seece said:
Dunno about America but I saw a big bus advert with PS3 at £199, maybe they only started advertising this weekend?


I thought they only cut it to 249? Or did they go further in the UK?

Erm ... $ isn't quite on par with the £ yet

It was £250, got dropped to $199, so £50 price cut which is 20% (It's also something like $300+ converted)

Right, I meant Euros but I don't know how to make the sign. I thought the UK usually got screwed on pricing compared to the US?



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leatherhat said:
Seece said:
leatherhat said:
Seece said:
Dunno about America but I saw a big bus advert with PS3 at £199, maybe they only started advertising this weekend?


I thought they only cut it to 249? Or did they go further in the UK?

Erm ... $ isn't quite on par with the £ yet

It was £250, got dropped to $199, so £50 price cut which is 20% (It's also something like $300+ converted)

Right, I meant Euros but I don't know how to make the sign. I thought the UK usually got screwed on pricing compared to the US?

Euros it's 249, same as US price.

Yeah we are getting screwed ... US gets a PS3 for $250 we get ours for $330



 

Seece said:
leatherhat said:
Seece said:
leatherhat said:
Seece said:
Dunno about America but I saw a big bus advert with PS3 at £199, maybe they only started advertising this weekend?


I thought they only cut it to 249? Or did they go further in the UK?

Erm ... $ isn't quite on par with the £ yet

It was £250, got dropped to $199, so £50 price cut which is 20% (It's also something like $300+ converted)

Right, I meant Euros but I don't know how to make the sign. I thought the UK usually got screwed on pricing compared to the US?

Euros it's 249, same as US price.

Yeah we are getting screwed ... US gets a PS3 for $250 we get ours for $330

So why did the bus have 199 Euros on it?



ǝןdɯıs ʇı dǝǝʞ oʇ ǝʞıן ı ʍouʞ noʎ 

Ask me about being an elitist jerk

Time for hype

leatherhat said:
Seece said:
leatherhat said:
Seece said:
leatherhat said:
Seece said:
Dunno about America but I saw a big bus advert with PS3 at £199, maybe they only started advertising this weekend?


I thought they only cut it to 249? Or did they go further in the UK?

Erm ... $ isn't quite on par with the £ yet

It was £250, got dropped to $199, so £50 price cut which is 20% (It's also something like $300+ converted)

Right, I meant Euros but I don't know how to make the sign. I thought the UK usually got screwed on pricing compared to the US?

Euros it's 249, same as US price.

Yeah we are getting screwed ... US gets a PS3 for $250 we get ours for $330

So why did the bus have 199 Euros on it?

It didn't? It had £199, like I said in my first post ...



 

PS3 can't beat 360 in the US even with a price cut?

Something is wrong here?



It's just that simple.

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Seece said:
leatherhat said:
Seece said:
leatherhat said:
Seece said:
leatherhat said:
Seece said:
Dunno about America but I saw a big bus advert with PS3 at £199, maybe they only started advertising this weekend?


I thought they only cut it to 249? Or did they go further in the UK?

Erm ... $ isn't quite on par with the £ yet

It was £250, got dropped to $199, so £50 price cut which is 20% (It's also something like $300+ converted)

Right, I meant Euros but I don't know how to make the sign. I thought the UK usually got screwed on pricing compared to the US?

Euros it's 249, same as US price.

Yeah we are getting screwed ... US gets a PS3 for $250 we get ours for $330

So why did the bus have 199 Euros on it?

It didn't? It had £199, like I said in my first post ...

Apparently I don't know the difference between the pound sign and the euro sign!



ǝןdɯıs ʇı dǝǝʞ oʇ ǝʞıן ı ʍouʞ noʎ 

Ask me about being an elitist jerk

Time for hype

leatherhat said:
Seece said:
leatherhat said:
Seece said:
leatherhat said:
Seece said:
leatherhat said:
Seece said:
Dunno about America but I saw a big bus advert with PS3 at £199, maybe they only started advertising this weekend?


I thought they only cut it to 249? Or did they go further in the UK?

Erm ... $ isn't quite on par with the £ yet

It was £250, got dropped to $199, so £50 price cut which is 20% (It's also something like $300+ converted)

Right, I meant Euros but I don't know how to make the sign. I thought the UK usually got screwed on pricing compared to the US?

Euros it's 249, same as US price.

Yeah we are getting screwed ... US gets a PS3 for $250 we get ours for $330

So why did the bus have 199 Euros on it?

It didn't? It had £199, like I said in my first post ...

Apparently I don't know the difference between the pound sign and the euro sign!

Hahaha, yeah I figured that out in the last post



 

BenVTrigger said:
ethomaz said:
BenVTrigger said:
Now 3DS numbers are looking more accurate.

And as for the PS3 price cut its not going to elevate hardware all that much in NA honestly and we have for sure seen a rise but nothing comparable percentage wise to what 3DS accomplished with its price drop and Vgchartz numbers reflect pretty damn close to what I said in another thread on here from what we've seen. I reported we saw a roughly 33% rise as a retailer and Vgchartz is reporting 40% nation wide.

Again my predictions and observation prove to be accurate

Next week is full week price cut for PS3 (like 3DS in this week)... so I expect more boost.

Doubtful.  Our sales as the number 1 retailer in the country don't reflect that at all.  If anything it should stabalize right around the 40-45% margin for a couple weeks till Gears 3 release.

And to people wondering about the lack of a big software boost its 2 things.

1.  People upgrading consoles from the old fat models to newer better Slims

2.  People buying pre-owned.  Many who buy a new console buy pre-owned games with it to keep the overall cost as low as possible.

If I am correct you guys are number 1 for software but not for new hardware ( I said new, not refurbished and I mean consoles not peripherics).

But yeah I don't expect a huge boost, it's more going to stabilize to a  long term medium increase. One thing to note too is that the huge boost on 3DS came after very bad weeks as people delayed their purchase, there was hardly any purchase delayed for the PS3..

Edit : I double checked and Gamestop had a 12% revenue share of the  new hardware business in 2010, I strongly doubt that is the number one in the country...



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

CGI-Quality said:
D-Joe said:

just 4 days(why,the hell peoples say it's 2 days?),will boost more next week i guess

The price dropped on Aug 17th. So not 2 or 4 days, but 3.

OT: Seems the PS3 boosted mdoerately considering the few days it had in the data. Next week should see it higher with an increase in sales throught holidays (albeit, not as big as it will be in EMEAA).

If it dropped on 17th then it's 17th + 18th + 19th + 20th ...



 

CGI-Quality said:
Seece said:
CGI-Quality said:
D-Joe said:

just 4 days(why,the hell peoples say it's 2 days?),will boost more next week i guess

The price dropped on Aug 17th. So not 2 or 4 days, but 3.

OT: Seems the PS3 boosted mdoerately considering the few days it had in the data. Next week should see it higher with an increase in sales throught holidays (albeit, not as big as it will be in EMEAA).

If it dropped on 17th then it's 17th + 18th + 19th + 20th ...

3 full days of sales. I can't imagine the increase on Day 1 was anything substantial (especially at retail).

It's still a day 0_o you can't discount it just to make the situation look better. It was announced on the 16th, so it had a full day on the 17th ...