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BenVTrigger on 19 September 2012

@Jay520

I work with consumers for a living. They know the difference. The "Super Slim" will give a boost certainly, any new hardware does but dont expect anything significant as its not going to happen



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Proclus on 19 September 2012

*Looks up "dominating" in the dictionary*.

Nope.



Jay520 on 19 September 2012
BenVTrigger said:
@Jay520

I work with consumers for a living. They know the difference. The "Super Slim" will give a boost certainly, any new hardware does but dont expect anything significant as its not going to happen


That's basically the same as what I initially said.



noname2200 on 19 September 2012

Hope springs eternal, eh?



chapset on 19 September 2012

don't be surprise if Microsoft announce a price cut right around halo 4 launch and the new slim without a reduce price won't do much except for the week of release after that I don't see them doing better then the competition



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cookingyourmama on 19 September 2012
TRios_Zen said:
pezus said:
TRios_Zen said:
 

When the new slim is released, the base price in the US is 269.99, right?  The current base price is 249.99.  While you could argue that they added value with the bundle, you can't really argue that the price didn't increase.

The other models are still available, so the base price did not increase. This slim has a bigger hard drive, a game, and dlc for Dust 514 (forgot to mention how happy I am about that, Icelandic power fuck yeah!!) as opposed to just the old slim for $249. There will be plenty of deals for the holidays, don't worry.

The old slim will no longer be produced; so the old slim is only available until stock runs out.  WHEN stock runs out, the new base price as far as we know, is $269, that's an increase, I'm sorry if we can't agree on that, but it seems very straight-forward to me.

You are correct that holiday bundles MAY exist, but the current content and pricing of those bundles is TBD, no way to know how that will impact sales.

So given the information I currently have available, I'd answer no, the PS3 is not set to dominate console sales the rest of the year.

Eh nope, $269 is the bundle price not the stand alone price. The console by itself is $249, there is no increase in america.



jamesmarkus87 on 19 September 2012

With no price drop and no blockbuster exclusive, I think PS3 will be dead last this holiday.



Anari on 19 September 2012

It might get a little boost, but it certainly won't 'dominate'.



Chris Hu on 19 September 2012
Kenology said:

Not at all. The base model being $269.00 is cool but I don't see a $30 price cut making to significant and impact.

If Microsoft should counters with it's own price cut, it's a wrap. And I expect Nintendo to drop the price of Wii (maybe) and that would surely undercut it.

I see better sales for the PS3 for sure, but let's not get too ridiculous.

 

EDIT: So wait... is it true that this new slim model is actually a lesser value and even more expensive than the base PS3 model already available?  If so, what a fail.

Even though the base model is going up by $20 its still a better value since you get 90GB more HDD space and one of the best exclusive games with it Uncharted 3 plus some PSN stuff.  I'm sure that Sony will drop the price once that bundle is sold out and the base model includes no extras.



Baron on 19 September 2012

I will most certainly not be buying a PS3 this year. I had hoped Sony would reduce the price allowing me to pick one up real cheap. Then, with the rumors of a slimmer version, I reckoned "Well, that'll probably be the same price but with more storage and such". Here we are, slimmer version, more storage,......

And a higher price....