What caused it?
Former something....
alfredofroylan said:
It's going to be released on december 5th. But it's more expensive than the regular model: Sony PLAYSTATION 3 80 GB Console with Batman Begins (Blu-ray) (*Get a free PS3 game, Blu-ray remote & HDMI cable with this item) £283.79 Sony PLAYSTATION 3 80 GB Console with Little Big Planet (PS3) £299.99 So, the first bundle allows you to get a free movie (Batman Begins, 300 or I'm Legend) and a game (included LBP) and it's almost £20 chaper than the LBP bundle. |
You can't compare retail bundles with manufacturer bundles. Lots of retailers offer loss leaders with various consoles, for their own money-making purposes. The retail sector wants desperately to push Blu-Ray... the PS3 is just part of that strategy. Sony has nothing to do with retail-specific bundles. The cheaper 283.79 bundle you mention above is not a Sony official bundle, to my knowledge.
The fact that Target, this week, is offering $20 gift certificates to X360 Arcade buyers has nothing to do with MS, either... Get it?
| leo-j said: The GT forums are horrid, wow they have exploded to huge flamewars, it makes the biggest flamewars here in vgchartz look like childs play 0-0 |
=p I love it! Especially when some of them are sending me PM's to become a mod again!

mtofu said:
geez... don't say such things. you make me feel like i have to start buying all sorts of ps3 games that i was never really interested in getting.
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Thats a worst case scenario and if it happens (which I think is impossible anyway), those games will come VERY cheap lol.
OT, ps3 sales aren't bad for crying out loud. The 360 and wii are just doing much better. PS3 already beat DC's sales, and could beat N64, GC, Xbox and possibly even SNES which had almost 10 years to sell.
People need to lay off the doomsday whistleblowing!
"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)
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It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler
| Groucho said: You can't compare retail bundles with manufacturer bundles. Lots of retailers offer loss leaders with various consoles, for their own money-making purposes. The retail sector wants desperately to push Blu-Ray... the PS3 is just part of that strategy. Sony has nothing to do with retail-specific bundles. The cheaper 283.79 bundle you mention above is not a Sony official bundle, to my knowledge |
It is an official product, it's sold on Europe in some contries like Italy and Uk, and it's not only limited to retailers:
http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/playstation-3-80-gb-batman/videogioco/711719115342
http://shopping.kelkoo.co.uk/ssc-112101-sony-playstation-3-console.html
They even have a CoD World at War bundle.

| Soriku said: How does a bundle with a PS3 + Batman + a free game (that can be LBP), bluray remote and HDMI cables cost less than a PS3 + LBP? You pay less for more and more for less? WTF? |
The colorful box is more expensive to produce. All of the cool bright colors cost more to print than black and white. ~_n
The mods in GT are horrible, they have no control over the forums, you can literally curse someone's mother out and not even be warned for it.
