Oct
08
Playstation 3 Price Cutdown Officially Confirmed
Tagged Under : PS3
The Playstation 3 prices are going to be lowered. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe seems to just confirm what we knew already. They do not call it a price cut though, according to them this is a new model! Sounds familiar!
The “new” 40 GB, HDD PS 3 will hit SCEE territories on Oct 10 at Euro 399 with SIXAXIS wireless controller, HDMI, 2 USB ports rather than 4, WiFi and no multi memory card port. It’s not going to be backwards compatible to PS 2.
The 60 GB HDD model will now sell for Euro 499 until stocks run out, may be they are emptying their stock and then discontinue that in European territory. I’ll check that and if that’s what is going to happen in these parts too. Stay tuned!!!
Too little, too late. Sony is going to have to sit this one out, just like Nintendo did last generation. It’s too bad that Sony thought they could use the PS3 to force Blu Ray adoption, or we wouldn’t even be talking about a format war. Now both formats are in a pretty much dead heat, and it’s unlikely that either will be the eventual replacement for DVD.
Officially confirmed read here for Sony to phase out cut-price PS3 to remain in Competition.