PS3 Price Drop

That’s going to be one tasty steak.  I can’t wait to read N’Gai’s reaction.  You da man Ozy.

At £299 the PS3 is an attractive buy as a blu-ray player plus games will appear in time.

Microsoft seem to be having alot of problems recently.. for example:-

- Peter Moore a great spokeman for xbox left Micosoft for EA, EA being a producer of average standard games with famous IPs

- Bizarre brought by Activision and no longer developing the PGR series

- Bungie Microsofts flagship wants to leave MS and go solo, obviously due to some negative feature with MS or why do such? Whichever way MS spin it its def bad news for Microsoft, you have to wonder what MS is doing to pee their developers off so much? Remember that MS woman who oversaw Gears? B*tch..

- Finally 3 red lights of death still occurring, this is the bane of the 360.

So what is the saving grace of 360? The games and LIVE but will PS3 come back strongly in 2008..maybe!

Didn't we have a "major price drop" just a few months ago – which was answered with a quick burst of sales but no overall sales increase?

Oh well. Microsoft's been on the market two years now. Even if PS3 started selling like hotcakes, it'd still be two years behind. And MS can probably afford a price drop as early as Spring, putting the 360 on par with the Wii on price.

JJS UK, this is a play for the holiday season more than a 2008 comeback story.  Sony is so desperate for a sustainable jump in PS3 marketshare they are willing to mortgage their future.  Just look at their attempts to sell off the Cell processor manufacturing plant which is rumored to be worth about $1 billion dollars.  In addition they raised $2.8 billion dollars with the initial public offering of its insurance unit.  All that money in attempts to cover loses and be able to drop PS3 prices in strategic markets.  In addition, this sku is not for PS2 customers because it doesn't offer backwards compatibility.  So who are they after, the 1st time/casual gamer…if so, I think the entry level price point is still way to high for that segment.  

As for you comments towards XBox business.  Your average customer is not going to give a rats ss about whats happening at game studios…as long the games releases are flowing and there are marque titles that differentiate the platform.  My guess is you'll see a significant drop in red lights/freezing service requests.  I think Microsoft has already mentioned that.  In any regards, XBox 360 has alot to look forward too…of course Halo3 is going to carry them into the holidays, a fairly major Fall Update (IPTV & stuff) and who knows what kind of promotions Microsoft has in store.

I am not planning on buying a Playstation 3 until there are some great and PS3 exclusive titels like Ratched and Clank etc etc. Until that time i keep enjoying al the great games that are out now and will come out in the next weeks.

My comment from yesterday hasn’t posted yet.  Is there some sort of filtering turned on?  Thanks

JohnCz

I agree Sony's £299 PS3 is aimed surely for this Christmas  also, shame there's not many games. The only one's of note bar multiplatform are: Heavenly Sword(s), Warhawk and Resistance. But I still think £299 for a Blu-ray player is good value especially as there will be games coming in 2008.

Concerning the average joe worrying about MS losing developers solely focussing on the 360 platform.. err.. no most prob totally unaware but it will be intereting to see what impact this has on future games on 360. For example you can bet your last dollar(or pound) that Sony would pay $$$$$$$$ for Bungie to make an exclusive title for PS3.. imagine the hype.. the 360 fanboys!!! It would be a nightmare for MS no other way to put it.

As to your point about 3 RLOD I think it has damaged the 360 image, not so much with the core but maybe with the casual gamer more who wants no hardware concerns plus technical failures would go down like a lead balloon in Japan.. eeerrr how's MS doing there? I think it's the 3 RLOD creates a huge negative for MS who really need to rid the net of this.. how can this be done? Well make sure the Falcon is reliable marvel that's how, then MS would have it all nearly.. the games, LIVE and reliability.. They'd just have to worry PS3 game developers dont utilize the Bluray storage to create a gameplay advantage foe PS3.

On your point of IPTV, BT are in partnership with MS in UK, who's target is to have the framework(network) in place to handle IPTV by 2010, will they achieve such it's doubtful from what I hear, will IPTV be the next big thing for MS? Yes I think so but I dont think IPTV will be a factor in this generation.

Yeah I look forward to the LIVE updates hopefully they will have some new gameplay features or user tools to help 360 owners to shape their 360 experiences more the way they'd like.

Is $399 40GB/Blu-Ray PS3 a better deal than $449 120GB XBox 360 Elite or $349 Pro models?  For customers in the market for high definition DVD player..maybe yes.  But Microsoft’s ace card it hasn’t played yet is IPTV…If only they can get IPTV released with reasonably priced IPTV services.  It would really help here in the U.S. if they could partner with a deeply entrenched cable operator like Comcast.

I posted an hour ealier answering you points JohnCz but it hasnt appeared, I guessed removed.

@JohnCZ: Unfortunately, Microsoft has allied it’s IPTV service in the US with AT&T. And "Ma Bell" is taking her own sweet time getting the Lightspeed/U-verse infrastructure rolled out.

Sadly, I don’t expect that I’ll see U-verse in my area until the next Xbox comes out (figuring approx. 3 years). I’m not in BFE either; I’m in Chicago. Sad truth is, AT&T doesn’t even have DSL available in my area. I think U-verse is a long way off.

But 360 is unplayable console anyway lolz

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But 360 is unplayable console anyway lolz

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yea thats why I play mine everynight since launch…riiiight!

>But 360 is unplayable console anyway lolz

Your astonishing, deep reasoning and well-structured arguments convinced me. That’s it. I’m no longer in the Microsoft camp!

PS3 LOLZ LOLZ LOLZ Micro$uxxx is dead WHOOO WIIII WHO NEEDS GAMES I HAVE SONY STUFF AND MOTION CONTROL!!1

But 360 is unplayable lolz

Nice to spend $399 seeing you get RROD when you first turn it on, lolz

RE: "I’ve been lucky enough to work in this industry for almost 20 years (scary thought, that)"

20 years? WOW. The console sector, at least, is barely older than that to begin with. It is interesting to think about how different the industry is now compared to those early beginnings, both culturally and logistically – But I bet it is fun to have a job that allows you to think about and shape those next 20 years, too.  :-)

Re: "20 years? WOW. The console sector, at least, is barely older than that to begin with. It is interesting to think about how different the industry is now compared to those early beginnings, both culturally and logistically – But I bet it is fun to have a job that allows you to think about and shape those next 20 years, too.  :-)"

Yeah, but some of those years were definitely PC-focused. SSI only did PC games initially. It is amazing how quickly things have changed, though… and I’m really excited to see what happens in the next 20!

BTW, have released all comments that weren’t obvious spam… so those of you who were missing your comments should be ok now.

>BTW, have released all comments that weren’t obvious spam…

I would like to vote to have the "360 unplayable lolz" comments be included in the ‘spam’ category. Really, let the haters go troll some other site.

Wait a minute, I think X360 is unplayable too lolz

No wait PS3 is unplayable console lolz

No wait PS3 is unplayable console lolz

You need some reality check.

PS3: 0% death probability

X360: 100% death probability

don’t get me wrong, I am elite owner with 64 games and +40k gamerscore. And my console never had a problem, but I know how bad this situation is. the 360 is not engineered strong enough to withstand heat, simple as that.

Another Sony troll lolz

PS3 can’t do MSAA + HDR at same time so get over it

>X360: 100% death probability

Someone does need a reality check, and that ain’t me.

Here it comes: the most preposterously anti-Microsoft numbers claim that the RRoD affects less than 20% of 360s out there. Sure, it’s high – but it’s also the worst case scenario. Real number is probably between half and two thirds that.

High? Yes. Dramatic? More like dramatically overblown by those infected with a terminal stage Microsoft Derangement Syndrome.

>PS3 can’t do MSAA + HDR at same time so get over it

So you believe the issues I’d have with PS3 amount to that? ‘Lolz’ indeed. I’d ask you to stop impersonating me, but that’d require more maturity than you could possibly bring to bear.

‘Someone does need a reality check, and that ain’t me.’

Microsoft should be doing a recall for what they have done on X360s, some people have gone through multiple X360s. Let’s face it, it is only matter of time before X360s will fail, because though what MS claims is that they are going through rigorous testing, their quality assurance is nowhere near where they should be. They simply rushed the hardware just because of Sony. They will fix the problem with 65nm GPU, but surely they DID make a mistake on current H/W design.

I love my Elite, some Xbots like Xwar let me down as true XBL gamer.