Sony denies PS3 price cut, then does it anyway
This post was published 2 years 4 months 14 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.I love when companies try their best to discourage the idea of a price-cut on an overpriced piece of hardware, only to turn around and go against their words to do it anyway.
Sony Corp. (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) cut the price of the PlayStation 3 by $100, or 17 percent, in the United States on Monday, a move that should boost the video game console’s lackluster sales.
The PlayStation 3, which includes a 60-gigabyte hard drive and a Blu-ray high-definition DVD player, will now cost $500, or $20 more than the most expensive version of Microsoft Corp.’s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Xbox 360.
The PS3 still costs twice that of Nintendo Co. Ltd.’s (7974.OS: Quote, Profile, Research) Wii console, whose $250 price and motion-sensing controller have made it a best-seller despite its lack of cutting-edge graphics and hard disk.
With the recently announced price cut, I may have to make use of one of the bundled packages being marketing by Circuit City. On another video game related note, I just picked up Super Paper Mario (virtual pat on the back for Nintendo and clean URLs). If anyone was turned off by the simplified graphics of the game, tsk tsk. Give the game a try – Syl & I are already stuck in the 2nd world.
I love SPM! I miss the old 2D side scrollers. Now if big N would only make a Zelda like A Link to the Past on Wii my life would be complete.
Don’t forget that they are also coming out with an 80Gb version with “Motorstorm” for free. Please, when you buy a PS3, you get 5 free Blu-Ray DVDs. And if it wasn’t for the fact that I was broke, I’d buy one. (New version comes in August, so I’ve heard.)
its july and you are barely getting SPM? some fan
That’s quite funny that they deny and do it anyway.
It is strange but I don’t care as long as we get the cut :P