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arcane_chaos on 19 July 2012
chris212223 said:
arcane_chaos said:
I really thought the 16gb(or 160gb) would be $150

good pricing all around, looking forward to the holiday season.

Same here. Then the 250 gb would be $200 and 500gb would be $250. 


lol exactly what I was thinking



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thismeintiel on 19 July 2012
arcane_chaos said:
chris212223 said:
arcane_chaos said:
I really thought the 16gb(or 160gb) would be $150

good pricing all around, looking forward to the holiday season.

Same here. Then the 250 gb would be $200 and 500gb would be $250. 


lol exactly what I was thinking

I can definitely see Sony pricing the 16GB (or 160GB if it was a typo) for 179.99, seeing as the PS2 was at the price point a few years ago.  However, I think it would make more since to go with $199 and $249 for the other models.  $229 and $279 just seems like a weird pricing model to adopt.  Then again, they may want to up the profit margin on the new model.  I still have a feeling it will be $199 and $249, though.



 

superchunk on 19 July 2012
Soriku said:
$179??

My interest is peaked. When will they announce this?


Aug14th at gamescon is my guess.



Slimebeast on 19 July 2012
CGI-Quality said:
Slimebeast said:
CGI-Quality said:

I feel Microsoft will wait until Spring to drop prices (just in time to launch the Gears of War Judgment console at a cheaper price point and offer their last LE Console before releasing what's next). I truly feel they aren't trying to battle Sony any longer for market-share, I think they'd rather reap the profits and focus on Windows 8, the inevitable next gen console, and SmartGlass (which should add a decent spec of value to the 360).

Edit: I imagine some serious price deals this holiday to accent the LE Halo console launch and Black Ops II, but not a full, worldwide price cut until Spring (the fact that they're asking for $399.99 for the Halo 4console reinforces that hypothesis).

Is that with the game included though? Or does it have something else, like an extra controller or bigger HDD?

It comes with two Halo 4 printed controllers (with an AWESOME LED blue light ring), a Standard Edition of Halo 4, and exc;lusive DLC for buyers of the console).

So you're thinking all that extra is worth $100? If we assume the regular 250GB X360 still costs $299 by the launch of Halo 4. Guess that makes sense. It's a really good deal though for people who... for people who don't have an X360 yet.

Back when I bought the Halo 3 limited console it cost $399 versus a regular X360 at $349 and it didn't have anything extra. I felt ripped off (all regular X360s were sold out).



shanbcn on 19 July 2012
leo-j said:
besides.. a 16gb HDD would kill off any reason to purchase playstation plus.. which is going to be a big source of revenue for sony..


Those who want PS Plus will get 250gb version anyway. Or they can always upgrade HDD later on.



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MARCUSDJACKSON on 19 July 2012
superchunk said:
MARCUSDJACKSON said:
well it better b 160G, but if it is 16G then, a simple solution would be to get a external 1T for $89.

with those price cuts this holiday season will be an interesting sight, but i'm still not sure how competative PS3 will be against Halo4, and last i checked, the cod exclusive dlc deal ended with blops 1.


16GB isn't bad. It would be similar to X360's low end sku with only 4GB flash.

wht!!! i don't get a where have you been, how ya been, or a wht the wht, where the hell you came from??? well it's nice to now i wasn't missed. i'll stay gone for a bit longer to see if i'll be missed then lol.

naw it isn't bad, the external is just another option. i have to ship my PS3 off to get it fixed cause certain games(UC3, Resistence, Metal Gear gun's) won't play in it. it's going to cost $100, so i may just wait, and trade my slim in for the new one.



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Andrespetmonkey on 19 July 2012
leo-j said:
besides.. a 16gb HDD would kill off any reason to purchase playstation plus.. which is going to be a big source of revenue for sony..


I think the people buying the 16gb PS3 won't be the people subscribing to Playstation Plus for the most part. And the people that will use the service using that PS3 will either replace the HDD or get an external HDD. It's a good way of getting the price down and having a clear entry model.



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leo-j on 19 July 2012

yes but sony probably would want anyone and everyone to subscribe to ps plus, sort of how everyone is subscribed to xbox live.. PS plus is a tremendous deal.. and it really is a rip off to sony mostly..



 

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Gilgamesh on 19 July 2012

Wouldn't this make more sense?

16GB: $150 (they should be able to pull this off if there's only 16GB in it)

250GB: $199

500GB: $250

Pricing seems odd.



donsterydo2 on 19 July 2012
superchunk said:
donsterydo2 said:
superchunk said:
Jay520 said:
I'm surprised by the $179 price. I didn't think Sony would cut the price but if they were to, I thought they would go to $199 at.the lowest. The $179 price is nearly a $100 drop! Should be some nice numbers this year if true. I wonder how Microsoft will react.

I'm betting this holiday we'll see...

$99 Wii
$149 X360
$179 PS3
$279 to $299 WiiU


Microsoft won't cut the price IMHO. If they manage to sell 11m X360 next fiscal year without price cut they will earn much more money than sellning 13m after a 50$ price cut.

They're already losing marketshare... they couldn't justify not doing a price cut vs a PS3 model w/ Bluray, free online, AND 4x the storage.

And so what? What is now the difference? If they cut the price and sell 2m consoles more it will change nothing when there is almost 70m X360 on the market already. Sony will be bleeding money just to make totals the same as X360 and in the same time Microsoft will be making tons of cash from every X360 sold. It's not like whithout price cut their sales will fall 50% next year.