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PS3 Price Leaked

THURSDAY APRIL 6 2006 2:00 PM

Submitted by WilWheaton. Edited By WilWheaton.

Geogre Fornay, Vice President of Sony Europe, reportedly disclosed the price of the upcoming PS3 yesterday:

According to Fornay, the PS3 will cost between 499 and 599 euros. That translates to between $613 and $736 for us in the States.

Sony has been saying that the PS3 will be expensive for months now, and Fornay followed up his blunder by insisting that these price points are a quality deal for a Blu-ray player. Nevertheless, all previous attempts at selling videogame consoles at this price point have been rather dramatic failures, even when the systems incorporated 'new' multimedia features.

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Sony has recently stated that Fornay was making completely personal statements and speculation, and that the announcement is in no way official.

I swear to jeebus, it's a good thing so many geeks still live with their parents, and the rest of them made brazillians in the dot com boom, because these game systems are getting stupid expensive.

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MarginWalker2002

San Diego, CA

April 2004

APR 06, 2006 05:08 PM

Tangus said:

wickedmonkey said:
for $700, there better be an attachment that gives blow jobs.

she's my sex box, AND HER NAME IS SONY!!!

Actually, SONY is the Playmate Station. Microsoft is the SexBox...

toneeblair

United Kingdom

June 2005

APR 06, 2006 05:09 PM

working in a major games shop in the UK made me grow to dislike every piece of gaming loveliness i owned... i sold it all over the time i was there, cause i grew to resent the way that consumers (including myself) were being treated with shit like this.

it was the PSP launch and it's build-up that did it, the way Sony had gone from re-inventing the gaming industry, to single-handedly destroying everything that was good about it. i've never been so cynical about anything in my life.

i used to hate microsoft in the same way, but it seems since they lost out to sony the last time, they're massaging the egos of the consumers, and i like it, my shiny 360 agrees.... we'll be staying away from the PS3 and the nasty man, Mr Nintendo can come play though, he's wacky...

Oren

United Kingdom

January 2006

APR 06, 2006 05:22 PM

Motionboy said:

SirPsychoSexy said:
Umm, but it doesn't translate to between $613 and $736 because the game industry almost always screw over Europe and charge them more. I would find it more likely if the prices were the same or similar in dollars and in euros.

I thought it was the VAT that screws you guys not the game industry.

Isn't VAT the same everywhere? Except it's included in the price over here, and excluded in some other places.

sexybeast

Metairie, LA

July 2004

APR 06, 2006 05:30 PM

TedKoppel said:
You need a computer and intenet connection for internet, so that's nowhere near free. You probably have broadband, which is a fair amount per month. You need TV and cable (almost certainly cable if not satellite) for TV. New books are almost always $24.95 minimum. Any time you do anything with your family, it's not going to be free. Gas for your car, money for dinners out, etc., all of this adds up. A game system is similarly investing your money in something that will provide you hours of entertainment.

It's still too high a price, though.

For me, computer and internet are necessary, so entertainment from it is free in a way. My TV was free, my DVD player was cheap, movies cost $15 a month from Hollywood video. Books cost $1-$3 most of the time, since I normally get them from Salvation Army. No family in the area, other than my wife, to spend time with. However, I do waste a lot of money going out to eat.

Game systems are great, but these days new ones are just ridiculously expensive.

I really don't think I have much of a point, I just wanted to comment.

cancontrol

I'm lost

August 2004

APR 06, 2006 05:47 PM

makes sense to me that it be the same price as a computer.....since it pretty much is a computer that specializes in playing games. Anybody look how much Apple computers (or the Ipod for that matter $300$) go for these days? Talk about a crime.

ureshii

Madison, WI

December 2005

APR 06, 2006 05:51 PM

that depresses me. like what the fuck what will it fall too 550 that is to much. if sony expects to come out with a ps4 they will have to becareful how they treat the fans with this one

pillboxhat

I'm lost

November 2004

APR 06, 2006 05:52 PM

A paid-for computer and TV (presumed here) are "free" at this point, which a brand new PS3 would not be. Cable and Internet connections can serve multiple purposes - even earning tax breaks and income, potentially - that mitigate the initial printed cost on a monthly bill, versus the singular purpose of entertainment with a PS3. (If I already require an Internet connection for purposes other than entertainment, I'm not going to count it as an entertainment cost.) I pay as little as $2 regularly for books (avoiding, as was mentioned, brand new hardcovers). Why I don't count the money of a restaurant dinner entirely against friends/family is because on some level you're paying (an admittedly higher price) for the food itself, which is a basic cost of living.

Maybe we disagree on the final cost of a consumer's different entertainment options, but I think we do agree on questioning what we're getting from Sony in return for our (substantial) investment.

[For the record, I feel the same about the XBOX 360 ($300 - $400USD).]

Pepelepew

Oak Forest, IL

August 2005

APR 06, 2006 05:56 PM

That is alot too rich for my blood.Well if I win the lottery I will get one

[Edited on Apr 06, 2006 by Pepelepew]

TheRedBaron

Cambridge, MA

November 2003

APR 06, 2006 06:01 PM

Jesus.

If you need me I'll be playing my SNES.

AkiraLi

Philadelphia, PA

March 2003

APR 06, 2006 06:06 PM

trocc said:

KorbenDallas said:
http://ps3today.com/
Update: Fornay's comments are not an indication of PS3 pricing - Sony

exactly. i'll say it again, there's no way.

Jksafn said:
Too much, but it wont stop from playing the new Metal Gear.

JohnClement

Silver Spring, MD

January 2004

APR 06, 2006 06:19 PM

bean said:
Dear Sony,

I understand that you're part of the consortium pimping the Blu-Ray dvd standard. I also understand that having a wide distribution of Blu-Ray dvd players suddenly flooding the marketplace is a great way to push widespread adoption of that standard. However, please understand that crippling the sales of your console by proposing what amounts to a two- to three-fold increase in retail cost will have a long-lasting, devastating impact on your gaming division. Such a price increase ensures that those Blu-Ray dvd players will only reach a tiny fraction of the audience that they might have reached if the price point were more reasonable, because, as you may be well aware of completely in the dark about, a console's success depends largely on a long and steady sales run and a good release spike. If the early adopters aren't there, the buzz will wane rapidly, and once that happens, the platform is doomed. The PS3 is already woefully behind the Xbox 360, and needs to make up ground fast in order to stay relevant.

Go ahead and release the box at this absurd price...if you want to kill your gaming division and stymie your own efforts to promote Blu-Ray.

If, on the other hand, you really want to get Blu-Ray out (and reap the long-term rewards of that endeavor), and ensure a long and prosperous future for your gaming division, take a fucking loss on the players and get the boxes released at a decent price.

Hasn't it been written that they're taking a loss on the Blu-Ray already?

Hooraydiation

Boston, MA

October 2005

APR 06, 2006 06:23 PM

BillHaverchuck said:

Hasn't it been written that they're taking a loss on the Blu-Ray already?

Yeah, but that was when the anticipated price was lower.

And there was a post saying it won't actually cost as much as the article says, so apparently there will be a loss?

LiquidYogi

Claremont, CA

September 2003

APR 06, 2006 06:25 PM

Doppelganger said:
blu-ray = betamax.

HD-DVD is going to win that battle.

So far 12 out of 14 major movie companies support Blu-Ray. 8 of 14 support HD-DVD.

Blu-Ray is not betamax, sony is a good smart company and they should have learned their lesson.

Sivart

Saskatoon, SK

June 2004

APR 06, 2006 06:44 PM

remember when a snes with 2 controllers and a game cost $150 and everyone was outrage at how expensive it was?

hadees

Austin, TX

December 2003

APR 06, 2006 07:27 PM

TedKoppel said:
I fully believe it's going to be in that range. I also believe that an unreasonable amount of the units shipped in the first six months will be broken in some way, as seems to happen with every console. This, combined with the popularity of consoles with low-income housing, leads me to believe that Nintendo is going to be more popular than previously thought. They aren't doing HD support, which was thought to be a mistake. Given the amount of money Sony and Microsoft have to spend making the systems, however, (to say nothing of the amount of money spent making games that can take advantage of their specs) leads me to conclude that a significant portion of the console audience is going to be dropped by those companies. That's at least $600 in addition to an HDTV to properly display your new awesome graphics. If you don't have that, the games I've seen look really odd.

Nintendo, by comparison, is simplifying. What remains to be seen is whether or not anyone wants to develop games that will be playable on their new controller.

I have to say I thought Nintendo was going to die this console release round but now I think your right.

Anyway I was always a console fan but I think I am just going to purchase a $1k gaming pc. Most games come out to the PC now anyway.

[Edited on Apr 06, 2006 by hadees]

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