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Publishers push Sony for PS3 price cut - console
(hx) 09:28 PM CET - Mar,16 2009 - Post a comment / read (3)
Sony is under pressure from video game publishers to cut the price of the PlayStation 3 console, or risk seeing more development funds shift to Nintendo's Wii:
Sony, which has resisted calls for lower prices, is likely to shave $50 to $100 off the PS3 this month or next, said Mike Hickey, an analyst with Janco Partners Inc. in Greenwood Village, Colorado. Starting at $399.99, the PS3 is $200 more than the lowest-priced Xbox 360 from Microsoft Corp. and $150 more than the market-leading Wii. Game makers now focus development in two directions: one for the top-selling Wii and the other for Xbox 360, PS3 and personal computers. Titles for Microsoft and Sony are typically more expensive to produce. Sony posts a loss on each console it makes at the current price, according to researcher iSuppli Corp. 'The publishers need the PS3 install base to grow in order for most of these games to be profitable,' said Evan Wilson, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities in Portland, Oregon. 'It's an easy equation for them, but it's very different from the one that Sony has to take on.'
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strangestsensation(02:52 PM CET - Mar,17 2009 )
A Blu-ray player, a good one, is approx $300. The one in the PS3 is the best you can get. To boot, you get a full media server that supports literally all formats of video and audio and you can play top notch games, a great internet browsers which is way better than the junk on the Wii. The price seemed more than fair to me. I love my PS3, it's literally replaced my PC for gaming. I've gamed on PC for a LONG time but PC just doesn't stand a chance against console anymore. PC's are a complete ripoff for gaming. (Here' let me take it up the ass so I can buy that video card and I'll be back in 6 more months to further take it up the ass for another video card). I have a Wii as well, it was fun and still gets played but it's not competition for PS3, not even close. As for the price of Xbox 360, well Xbox 360 in comparison is a hunk of junk that based on many threads breaks down all the time, doesn't have Blu-ray and you have to buy all the addons like wifi adapters. There's are significant differences for the justification of cost in my opinion. PS3 is a bargain for the price.

sikapossu(05:59 PM CET - Mar,17 2009 )
ps3 is good console put its overprices and it does brake too just like xbox 360 only diffrence that on ps3 blu-ray stop reading any media

and what comes to pc i got q9300 4 gb ram and 9800 gtx and have that now second year and still all games works great and suprise that every multiplatform game is better on PC and same is many other games wich never come to console like Total war

strangestsensation(04:15 PM CET - Mar,18 2009 )
This article and everything in general about it is wrong and fueled by greed. Focus your attention on this.

"At the end of December, Sony had sold 21 million PS3s worldwide"

21 million!!! So there are some 21 million PS3's out there and someone is moaning that Sony should cut their price? If I were Sony I'd tell whoever wrote that article to take a hike. If you got 21+ million people out there and you are worried about sales of your game, then your game must suck.

PS3 is not a welfare console like Wii. Ps3 is also better than Xbox 360 in almost every aspect. $399 for PS3 with 80gb is more than fair considering everything inside the box. Unlike Xbox, I don't have to pay to play. Another asset to owning a PS3.

My apologies but this is one super stupid and weak article for a basis for Sony to cut prices of PS3.

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