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Retrasado on 22 January 2008

^^ROFL



Not trying to be a fanboy. Of course, it's hard when you own the best console eve... dang it

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FinalEvangelion on 22 January 2008

We'll see in the next few days if rumors pick up. If recent articles are correct about lowering production costs, which IMO, is not impossible, then it might just happened. Sony has pulled alot of unexpected (at least to many members) moves this generation. I think when Kaz Hirai took over, getting the price down to $299 as quickly as possible was a major priority.



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jheco05 on 22 January 2008

Would really be cool if true.



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DragonLord on 22 January 2008

Wow, I so hope for this...if it happens, I'll buy a second one for my living room for the blu-ray player. I get so damned tired of moving mine around.



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Demac on 22 January 2008

Sony was expecting to lose money at launch and sell twice as many systems as they have by now. So if you think of it that way, they only lost half of what they expected to lose. :) The more consoles you have the more money you make in licensing.



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Naraku_Diabolos on 22 January 2008

Are you sure that they (whoever started this 'rumor' of a price drop for PS3) that Sony would be releasing a BLU-RAY PLAYER for $299? Sony cannot afford to be bleeding another billion. Everyone I know back at my University thinks that Sony is just REALLY desperate trying to find a place for their PS3 to fit in in the market.



StanGable on 22 January 2008
Sm4ckd0wn said:
krik said:
crumas2 said:
krik said:
 

Sure PS3 will lose money, they already do. I think Sony wants to kill HDDVD and make money from Blu-Ray. The HD media is worth a few billion in revenue for Sony.

They actually can make for the losses with both PS3 games and Blu-ray movies. MS on the other hand needs to make it up from games only (or maybe they can actually make that download movies thing turn a profit).

 


You may have a point about Sony being willing to lose big on PS3 hardware to make money on Blu-ray: they've already shown themselves willing to canabalize the PS3 as a game machine to win the Blu-ray war.

 

As far as MS needing to make a profit from the games division... not too likely... they're filthy rich from their other divisions.

 


Microsoft's money pile is going down and they are a very profit oriented corporation. Their share holders want to make sure the company has a future beyond Windows since their market share is dropping. MS needs to show profit on other divisions.

Also I totally disagree with you regarding Sony cannibalizing the PS3 as a games machine. Look at my game collection (signature) and look at PS3's line up for this year (LBP, MGS4, KZ2, GTA4, GT5, InFamous, etc). Sony is actually pushing the PS3 in all fronts. They do that because they can. They actually have a good piece of hardware that is much more useful than the 360. MS would be doing the same if the X360 had those abilities.

I love my PS3, just got a second one exclusively for my Linux/PS3 CELL coding (tired of sharing with my son). You should get one crumas, you will then realize you have the lots of misconceptions about the PS3. PS3 is an awesome console, the best console I ever had.

 

I think someone has been following the Mac commercials way too closely.

I also laughed my ass off when I read this. FYI buddy

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9054798

Oh, I also laughed a lot at the comment that Sony can lose billions on the PS3 and make it up with Blu-Ray. If that's the case then so can Microsoft who's profits are waaaaaaaaaaay bigger than the PS3. Also I find it funny that he thinks MS' shareholders would not be willing to lose money on the Xbox yet Sony shareholders are willing to spend it all. You need to stop being a fanboy and start cultivating yourself with knowledge. I propose you start reading at least the Money section in a big newspaper like USA today so you can start cultivating your mind with knowledge. Whenever you're more informed you can move up to something like maybe the Economist but that might take a few years, ha!



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darendt on 22 January 2008

There are already BD players on the market for 299. From Sony and Samsung. As for this particular rumor.......it is false. I was just checking over inventory on the 80GB PS3 accross the nation for my store, and it seems that the 80GB version is in pretty limited supply these days. The 40 GB is everwhere though.



Joeykanga on 22 January 2008

I really hope this is true!
But I don't believe Sony would do that.



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dolemit3 on 23 January 2008

Is the Sony card deal applicable to this 300$ PS3? A 200$ 40GB model is hard to resist.



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