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All right we all know that Sony announced the worst kept secret in the industry by announcing the PS3-Slim and announcing that it will come out at $299. Hooray, I like cheaper prices just like everybody else. And then I was excited thinking, “sweet this means the current PS3 SKU is going to drop even lower!” only to see “All current PS3s drop to $299 in price immediately”. Lame.
So, we’re going to have two different PS3 models out on the market at the same time and they’re both going to be the exact same price? Am I the only person who thinks this is retarded as hell, an older model being priced at the same price as a new model? If I’d go to my local GameStop and ask to buy a PlayStation 3 right now for $299 they’d tell me to just wait two weeks and buy a slim model for the exact same price (yes, my GameStop is employed by people with common sense). With the current pricing setup Sony has in place, they’ve essentially rendered the original PS3 obsolete in every way. Who in their right mind is going to buy a PS3 knowing that there’s a more energy efficient and slimmer unit available that does everything the original unit did plus comes with a larger hard drive for the exact same price? Okay, so you can’t install Linux on the PS3 Slim, whoopee fucking do. If you are savvy enough to utilize Linux properly you already have a machine more properly capable of running it anyway and don’t even need to put it on a gaming console. Sony, just as you finally do something right you follow it up with something that leaves a giant question mark over my head. Yes I can understand that you don’t want your older-model PS3’s selling for the same price, or cheaper, then the PSP Go but you just don’t sell an obsolete model for the same price as your newest. Ever. People wouldn’t buy an Xbox 360 Pro for the same price as an Elite. They wouldn’t buy a 2008 Monte Carlo if it cost the same as a 2009 Monte Carlo. You don’t buy third deck stadium tickets if you can get front row for the same value. I highly doubt anybody would have been happy if the original PS2’s would have been the same price as a Slim. Sony, the PS3 is personally my favorite console of this generation and I really didn’t think you needed to lower your price in the first place considering everything that comes with a PS3. However I swear your mantra this generation is to always follow up something right with something wrong, or at the very least bewildering.
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Well if they are the last of the phat PS3s then why keep them at the same price as the slim model? It would help get rid of them if they were cheaper.
I think the phat PS3s look better anyway.
Instead of doing what everyone is thinking, selling the phat one at $299 and then selling the slim at $399, they prob said, screw it, we are going to listen to our community and give them what they want... a competitive price point vs the xbox and wii.
It's a certainty that everyone worth his stock options at Sony HQ now knows that the PS3 hardware, as it was at launch, was a stupid mistake. So they're doing what all successful businesses do when they realize their mistakes: stay the course. The PS3 Slim is cheaper to manufacture, so it sells for less. Old PS3s still show a huge blemish on their recorded operating costs, something that they'd like to assure investors will be made up, sooner or later!
The first suit who stands up and says "let's swallow our losses on old PS3s" will be fired so fast his eyelids will burn off.
... the price drop is an incentive to buy "now" as is the likelihood that the Slim model will replace all existing SKU's.
Also, there are lots of people that don't at all follow gaming news and could care less about a new model. They see the price comparable to other game systems (or BD players) and simply buy it.
I guess christmas and the new year, will be the real test for Sony and their plans. PS3s will sell, but Sony really need to sort out their advertising and marketing to help it.
Which would I buy, probably the 80gb model, then upgrade it. I'll give it time, and find out what the Slim build is like. Lack of BC is a real turn off still, though.