It seems like only gamers in the United States will benefit from Sony's recent
price drop to $499 for the 60gb model of the PlayStation 3. My apologies to our worldwide readers. While Sony may not love you, we still do. Feel free to throw out the obligatory 'we didn't want one anyway' posts.
Bloomberg reports that although the U.S. saw a 17 percent price cut for the PS3, Sony has no plans to discount in the console in Asia or Europe. The company says that there are no plans "at this point" and follows up with a 'no comment' about the future.
"Sony is having a tough time with its PlayStation,'' said Shigemi Nonaka, chairman at Polestar Investment Management Co. in Tokyo, which has $218 million in assets including Sony shares. "Sony's always had this image of being at the leading edge of technology, but they've fallen behind the Wii.''
If you think about
yesterday's report about Sony's game division still losing money while the rest of the company is making money, it kind of makes sense that they would only want to cut prices in one market. It is understandable that they would want to do this to spark sales in this large of a market, but there's no denying that other countries will feel cheated.
Never give up hope, though. Not too long ago Sony said that they had 'no plans' to reduce the price of the PS3, and then a price drop was announced early July.
[via
Bloomberg]
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8:58 AM on 07.27.2007
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We'll be lucky to see a real price drop this year, maybe one before Christmas. It will be likely if the 60gb's go quick then they can do a global drop in price. It's even more likely if the 360 gets one. I see instead both Sony and M$ holding off until the last possible moment to try and get some profits back during the holidays for their money hemorrhaging game divisions.
No one can deny at this point that the 60gb "only US price cut" was nothing more than a fire sale of old hardware.
The Canadian dollar is just as strong as the US dollar now, Canadians need a bigger than $100 price-drop.
Gotta love lax customs.
I think I heard somewhere that the Elite is going to drop by $50 in Canada because of the strength of our monies these days. I THINK I remember reading that somewhere at some point. Probably best to ignore me.
weird, now i find myself wanting one.
the controller was made out of styrofoam....
No but seriously jibes aside, some cool games will come out later, il probabaly get one, but when its about £250 squid and i can see damage in gran turismo!!
"Sony's always had this image of being at the leading edge of technology, but they've fallen behind the Wii"
Ouch, Waggle > Cell/BluRay
Yeah and you get 5 free blu-ray movies (Canada) if you purchase the PS3 (or any blu-ray player) between now and December I think. Costs the SAME as the Elite now plus 5 free movies...I cannot complain
He also claims the 80gb will be dropped to $499usd/$549cdn by Christmas.
Course, none of this will matter if MS drops the 360 by a hundred bucks as is currently rumoured to be happening.
£525 with Motorstorm and Resistance, which are the only games I would actually want anyway to date.
That's over $1000.
Obviously I asked the sales clerk if he'd care to suck my balls.
And I thought, yeah I'm in Canada so everyone who is saying "$150 price drop", that actually is a lot, but then someone else says "Canadian dollar is worth the same as American dollar" so, then I think why does the PS3 still cost $50 more up here? And... our dollar is still a bit less I think, but they are really close, just like the 1970s.
PS Fuck Sony
bringing it to that price point was an excellent move by Rhymes with Bony.
Costs money to import goods into Canada, same as Exporting...customs baby and we get hit with that when we purchase.