$5 off rabies is not a good deal. However, a $299 PS3 is a good deal, and if Janco Partners' Mike Hickey has anything to do with it, we might just get our hands on that deal sooner than later. In a recent note to investors, Hickey stated that Sony needs to cut the price of the console by $100, and without the price cut the console may remain sitting on shelves waiting to be purchased. More on that:
"Recent channel checks indicate increased speculation for a PS3 price cut announcement from Sony in the next couple of days ... we think the company needs to reduce the current price by USD 100 to effectively restart unit velocity at retail. We believe the market is expecting a PS3 price cut in April or by June at the latest."
Hickey also says there is talk of a PS3 without the BluRay drive, although this presents the issue that current games would not be compatible with it. With what I get out of my PS3, I feel it's worth whatI paid for it, but I can't deny $299 sounds a whole lot better both on the ears and the wallet. Would you snap one up at that price?
[Via GamesIndustry.biz]
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2:40 PM on 02.25.2009
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So..yeah...make with the 300 dollars Sony before I buy a 360.
I see the no blu-ray drive thing never happening, that would be so retarded! It would be like a DVD player without a DVD drive, lame.
Why on earth would sony take away one of THE seling points of the PS3? No wonder people don't take analysts too seriously.
Thanks for the laugh Colette, much appreciated. :)
... God, even software backcompat. There was no legitimate reason to take that out O_o
Good god, mine was almost $800 with tax and my warrenty when I bought it..fuck...I feel sick..
Yeah, no thanks.
Then I loaded a 600 gig external with digital versions of my vidoe collection, as well as all our photos and all our music. Viola, it is the center of most of our non-tv media intake. If we get new music, it goes on PS3's external, same with new movies and photos. Not to mention the bluray.
But I realize that many people don't see all that it promises when they look at it, or they don't know how to extract all that value because some of it is a little technical. They just see a video game machine, and I understand from that perspective, $300 makes more sense.
Nevermind the fact that I can go out and buy an 80GB PS3, a 320GB drive AND Uncharted for less than $500, that $500 SKU is supposed to be a bargain?
Sony needs to get a $300 SKU out yesterday. The PS3 isn't priced for today's economy and if they want to move units and increase sales, they better address it sooner rather than later.
They can then take that money, cough up $50 extra, then et a brand new PS3 (which, in their "perspective", does everything their old one did), and i get a backwards compatible one for a discounted price.
At first I thought that it was an outrage that they wouldn't be backwards compatible and then I realized that I had a PS2 already and they only real reason I wanted to have backwards compatibility was for the convenience. You could argue that you don't want to have a million consoles in your entertainment system but I don't think that that convenience, especially since they offer a PS2 slim model, is really worth an extra $100, especially when you realize that it's just emulation, which doesn't always run as well as you expect it to because the PS2 and the PS3 are DIFFERENT SYSTEMS. It's strange situation though since both the PS2 and the PS3 are alive and kicking at the same time, the former more than the later. This is different than most generations of consoles.
I think we're far too picky about this whole thing.
@Funran: That's good and all, but it's my $299. If I feel that the PS3 needs BC to be worth it to me, then so be it. I already have a 360, therefore access to all multi-platform games
Ditto... on both accounts.
Are you sure you don't mean sales? Getting rid of BC let Sony take out a few chips and the PS2 memory, and make the mobo smaller.
Removing Blu-Ray wouldn't even make economic sense. The diodes are a heck of a lot cheaper now than they were at launch.