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Hyruken said:

 

The PS3 has had price drops mate, not Sony official price drops but the console is now cheaper then what it is. If you shop around you can dind some nice deals like i mentioned, the KZ2 bundle with LBP for £269 is a price cut of types. If you look at

http://www.findprice.co.uk/fp/Games_Consoles/Compare-prices-Sony-PLAYSTATION-3-Console-80-GB-Model/1849355/product.htm

you see very few if any are listed as the Sony required £299. Play has it for £249.49. £50 ($100) cheaper then requested.

So in terms of official drops from Sony i can't even remember the last time there was one of those! But stores are not stupid, in these times of recession they know they have to cut costs themselves or nobody will buy them. Like i was in Blockbuster the other day and i saw a PS3 with a choice of 3 Blu-Ray films and a game for £275. These are the gimmick deals that are needed to shift consoles. So PS3 has not stayed the same for 2 years as you suggest, it is cheaper now and has a lot more varied variations of deals to choose from. Like if i had not already got a PS3 i might go for this deal from Amazon. You get a 80GB PS3, a hdmi cable a choice of any game and if you pay £10 more you get another game of your choice, all for the great price of.....£289

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000211123&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=left-1&pf_rd_r=12MNB4E9S7BYGYSTW3MF&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=465114933&pf_rd_i=300703

So there are cheaper PS3's out there then what you suggest, and what Sony want you to pay, just have to look for them :) 

Still no "official" price drop, although the only one I see that possibly comes close was the KZ2 bundle price.

Other than that, retailer drops and retailer created bundles do not count. If so, then 360 had way more than jsut 2 price drops last year in Europe alone, which just adds further to my "not disappointing" argument.