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Videogirl on 27 July 2009
parisgaming said:

lol! this is just an enormous fake... look at the picture, it's not real! this pub says: you can preoder a ps3 slim (for the 01 september 09) before the 07 august 2009... it's crazy, you've got only one week to preorder the system and you don't kown  anything about the price, weight and cie... (that's in the article) ... don't believe in that thing...  the ps3 slim is maybe true... but not now (the first september). sorry for my bad english...i'm french.lol

 

Again : These are not professionnal ads, they're mailing announcements from distributors to retailers to inform them about the new PS3 model launching on 09/01/09. If retailers are interested in having the PS3 slim they have to preorder it until 8/07/09, simple as that. And they only have 10 days to preorder because then distributors will only have the short span of three weeks to order the goods and organize the distribution.

 

 

 



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pterodactyl on 27 July 2009
ZenfoldorVGI said:

Oh please GOD let this drop to 299 and have full BC. You know, I will buy another one, no shit.

Meh, I doubt it. There's no real reason to believe BC will be in either the slim (which, by the way, is also backed up by scant and sketchy evidence, at best) and there's no indication Sony will drop any prices. I'd expect the slim to, if any thing, cost more due to higher manufacturing costs and the phat to stay at the same price.



tedsteriscool on 27 July 2009

Oh and who thought of this: If they're offering PRE-ORDERS for a console, this slim will be huge. Don't pre-orders for consoles only happen before their initial launch due to high demand for the new sku?



Taz! on 27 July 2009
tedsteriscool said:
Oh and who thought of this: If they're offering PRE-ORDERS for a console, this slim will be huge. Don't pre-orders for consoles only happen before their initial launch due to high demand for the new sku?

Ironic



bobobologna on 27 July 2009
tedsteriscool said:
Oh and who thought of this: If they're offering PRE-ORDERS for a console, this slim will be huge. Don't pre-orders for consoles only happen before their initial launch due to high demand for the new sku?

 

It's preorders for stores, not for customers.  So stores have to preorder the console, most likely due to limited initial supply.

I'm predicting that the PS3 slim will retail for the current PS3 pricepoint while the older models get a price drop to clear out stock.



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Naraku_Diabolos on 27 July 2009
bobobologna said:
tedsteriscool said:
Oh and who thought of this: If they're offering PRE-ORDERS for a console, this slim will be huge. Don't pre-orders for consoles only happen before their initial launch due to high demand for the new sku?

 

It's preorders for stores, not for customers.  So stores have to preorder the console, most likely due to limited initial supply.

I'm predicting that the PS3 slim will retail for the current PS3 pricepoint while the older models get a price drop to clear out stock.

Even if Sony reduces the price of the current PS3 to clean out inventory, wouldn't that mean that they will lose A LOT more money on those current models just to clean out the inventory. That's quite ironic and stupid, if you ask me...



pterodactyl on 27 July 2009
Naraku_Diabolos said:
bobobologna said:
tedsteriscool said:
Oh and who thought of this: If they're offering PRE-ORDERS for a console, this slim will be huge. Don't pre-orders for consoles only happen before their initial launch due to high demand for the new sku?

 

It's preorders for stores, not for customers.  So stores have to preorder the console, most likely due to limited initial supply.

I'm predicting that the PS3 slim will retail for the current PS3 pricepoint while the older models get a price drop to clear out stock.

Even if Sony reduces the price of the current PS3 to clean out inventory, wouldn't that mean that they will lose A LOT more money on those current models just to clean out the inventory. That's quite ironic and stupid, if you ask me...

Yeah, but this IS Sony we're talking about. They're pretty desperate.



bobobologna on 28 July 2009
Naraku_Diabolos said:
bobobologna said:
tedsteriscool said:
Oh and who thought of this: If they're offering PRE-ORDERS for a console, this slim will be huge. Don't pre-orders for consoles only happen before their initial launch due to high demand for the new sku?

 

It's preorders for stores, not for customers.  So stores have to preorder the console, most likely due to limited initial supply.

I'm predicting that the PS3 slim will retail for the current PS3 pricepoint while the older models get a price drop to clear out stock.

Even if Sony reduces the price of the current PS3 to clean out inventory, wouldn't that mean that they will lose A LOT more money on those current models just to clean out the inventory. That's quite ironic and stupid, if you ask me...

Um, you do remember what happened when the 80GB PS3 came out, right?  80GB was $600, and the 60GB dropped to $500.



Seraphic_Sixaxis on 28 July 2009

Hell...



Videogirl on 28 July 2009
Naraku_Diabolos said:
bobobologna said:
tedsteriscool said:
Oh and who thought of this: If they're offering PRE-ORDERS for a console, this slim will be huge. Don't pre-orders for consoles only happen before their initial launch due to high demand for the new sku?

 

It's preorders for stores, not for customers.  So stores have to preorder the console, most likely due to limited initial supply.

I'm predicting that the PS3 slim will retail for the current PS3 pricepoint while the older models get a price drop to clear out stock.

Even if Sony reduces the price of the current PS3 to clean out inventory, wouldn't that mean that they will lose A LOT more money on those current models just to clean out the inventory. That's quite ironic and stupid, if you ask me...

They're already clearing out the stock, in Switzerland there's like 7 different bundles comming out these days (80GB + a game or a movie) priced from 320€ to 340€ which means they've already cut out the price to make these bundles competitive with the upcoming new model.

My guess is they will probably release the PS3 slim alone for 299€ at launch and assuming the old model will be cleared out around October, itit will give them the opportunity to bundle the slim with GT5/FFXIII (depending on the region) for the holiday season.