PS3 Price Drop

[toasty]

Playstation 3 going to $499 in the US, effective tomorrow.

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/09/0253236&from=rss

Anyone been waiting for this to happen before picking one up? I'm underwhelmed by the game library right now (and frankly don't really play games like I used to anyway), but considering it has a BluRay player, it might push me a little closer to picking one up...

[Corven]

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any idea if its just for the US or is it a permanent global price cut??

[toasty]

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Sony tends to announce its pricing separately by region so this is technically just for the US, but I think it's reasonable to expect similar changes in other regions, if they haven't already occurred.

[Garrick]

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still too expensive. i can buy a desktop for that much.

[Kamal]

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Vastly improved DVD upscaling, BluRay DVD player, $100 Price drop, I'm smelling a future "must have" device coming up on my list

[tiddles]

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i'd go buy one tomorrow if i wasn't leaving the country in 2 months

[Kamal]

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where are you going ?

[tiddles]

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i'm going to bordeaux to teach english to master's of education (the french call it IUFM or something) students.
$500 is a lot of wine and cheese

[toasty]

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i'm going to bordeaux to teach english to master's of education (the french call it IUFM or something) students.
$500 is a lot of wine and cheese

Dude, that's awesome!! How long will you be there? Great vino there, obviously -- I'm jealous...

[tiddles]

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i fly in sept 12th and work until the end of june. i want to stay and dick around in europe for the summer after i finish. should be fun!
i might need to buy a euro-playstation when GTA4 comes out

[beanzncheez]

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still too expensive. i can buy a desktop for that much.

It's not that expensive. And the prices have been seen since last Friday in many Targets across the country. You can buy a desktop for much cheaper as well. Dell every once in a while will have a P4 HT dual core with 2GB of RAM, 250GB hdd, Vista Home Premium (I know) for like $199.

[srbbnd]

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still too expensive. i can buy a desktop for that much.

agree...if the product was worth buying in the first place there would be no need for the price drop. 360 and PS3 are crap for the price. Rather just have a good PC and Crysis.

[beanzncheez]

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^ ^ Crap for the price? So are Renaults.

[mgabrielm]

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This is a clearance sale. SONY makes way for the 80GB model, which probably will sell for $599 again.

[LoUiS]

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still too expensive. i can buy a desktop for that much.

I agree with you but in order for a pc to beat PS3 graphics you must have the right specifications meaning that it'll cost much more than a ps3.