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It has been said by Sony that despite the rumors they will not cut the pricing as there is no content for PS3 and that they will try to push the Blu-ray side of PS3 while the content arrives. This has been said by official Sony executive.

I think that despite all these rumors PS3 will not go down in price.

The only thing that would justify the $399 price would be short-term promotional pricing that would go back to $499 after a while.

We'll see.

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The comment you posted from Hirai is probably the most intelligent comment from anyone in the PS3 division to date. He knows that dropping the price of a console that doesn't have much content isn't going to make much difference. It's not going to spur sales, so why lose more money on what you are selling?

It still wouldn't surprise me to see a price drop though. They're desperate right now. It's been nothing but negative press since they launched it. Though that's what you get when you enter a market and ignore the changes it has seen since last time. ]]>Oct 4th 2007 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/
Nfinity, use your brain for a second. There's no way Sony would replace a model (the 60GB) with one with less hard drive space, fewer USB ports, no memeory card readers, and no hardware backward compatability and charge the same price for it. We've known about the $399 PS3 for a while now; there's no reason to think the price would suddenly shoot up $100.

I imagine the only reason for the delayed announcement is to give retailers time to sell through some of their $599 80GB bundles before removing Motorstorm from the quation and dropping the price $100.

And "no content?" Please, that comment has been refuted so many times there's no longer a reason to argue it.

JET]]>Oct 4th 2007 6:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/7159/ )

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Sony Computer Entertainment is well aware of the speculation surrounding the PlayStation 3's pricing, but chief Kazuo Hirai admits his company will be prioritizing elsewhere for its holiday season strategy. Specifically, the name of the game will be pushing PS3 as a Blu-ray player to attract Christmas sales before announcing any further official price cuts.

Sony would rather build confidence by establishing a stronger lineup of game titles in order to make additional price cuts even more attractive.
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If you think that with this content numbers PS3 has any chance as gaming platform you are deeply mistaken. Below information taken from XBox.com and Sony's Playstation.com

Xbox 360 Current Games out: 385
Xbox 360 Upcoming Games: 54 (this and next year)

PS3 Current Games out: 77
PS3 Upcoming games: 46 (this and next year, out of which maybe few exclusives the others are available on Xbox 360 as well)

What exactly has been discussed? Do you realize that if this is what 2007/2008 looks like for PS3 that they have ZERO chance of surviving.]]>Oct 4th 2007 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/
"The PS3 is first and foremost a video games machine but we want to say – by the way, it’s a great Blu-ray player as well...Going aggressive only on price without being able to back it up with content doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me." - Kaz Hirai (your link - http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/7159/)

If I were interpreting those statements, I'd say the utility of the system as a games machine and a Blu-Ray player provides the content to support the price drop.

JET
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Full quote by the man himself:

The PS3 is first and foremost a video games machine but we want to say – by the way, it’s a great Blu-ray player as well," Mr Hirai said. Marketing efforts in the US, Europe and Japan would highlight the PS3 as a Blu-ray disc player as well.
"Going aggressive only on price without being able to back it up with content doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me," he said. A price cut would have a "real impact" on sales only if there were enough software titles to support the PS3.


If you have problem comprehending what he is saying then I think we have nothing to talk about, but every logical person will conclude that he doesn't see price drop efficient if they don't have content to entice the consumer. This means that they are very much not really planning for price drops until they have more content, simple as that. The article reads his statement correctly.

If you don't think this is good news, then that's a different story, but it is very clear what he's saying.]]>Oct 4th 2007 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/
If they can get the 60GB model below the £300 magical price point, they're laughing.]]>Oct 4th 2007 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/
The memory card reader ommission and USB pull, if true, just seems silly since these components can't cost more than £4.99 to include and surely a brank new product line to cope with this would be more costly than to leave them on?]]>Oct 4th 2007 6:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/Oct 4th 2007 6:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/Oct 4th 2007 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/
Mr Noisy regarding pricing, you should be used to being "suckered" us British folk have and always will pay over the odds... for _EVERYTHING_

from the PS3 you'll play, to the cigs you smoke (or at least some do), to the bottle of coke you drink. ack what a ramble..! soz leaving Korea in 2 weeks going back to be one of those who has to accept we're being ripped-off (in general) in the UK ;> 20malboro anyone quid-fifty? jap ps3 200quid? anyone. j/k :P]]>Oct 4th 2007 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/Oct 4th 2007 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/Oct 4th 2007 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/Oct 4th 2007 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/Oct 4th 2007 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/Oct 5th 2007 2:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/Oct 4th 2007 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/
360 Core
360 Premium
360 Premium with HDMI
360 Elite
360 Arcade
360 Halo Edition
6 different Premium Bundles
and lets not forget the change in hardware due to RROD....

As an XBox owner different models to choose from is the last thing you have to pick on PS3 about!]]>Oct 4th 2007 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/Oct 4th 2007 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/
I think the PS3 will survive the Xmas... mainly since fanboys will refuse to buy a 360. And some of the major releases are cross platform (ex: GH3, Rock Band, Assassins Creed).

but this Xmas, belongs to M$... and I guess the Wii (which has been collecting dust since Halo 3 was released).]]>Oct 4th 2007 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/Oct 4th 2007 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/Oct 4th 2007 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/Oct 4th 2007 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/
The problem is if they don't start selling more units, 3rd party developers are not going to put the time in to develop great exclusive games. Sure we have the big franchises coming (MGS, FF, GT), but what about the new franchises that will be established this generation?

It's the classic chicken-egg thing with Sony right now, except they don't really have a chicken or an egg to work with. And the only thing Sony has control over is price. The last price cut (or whatever it was) did spur sales IIRC, so I think they will do it again. Finally, with Blu-Ray players dropping in price, there is a bit of pressure for Sony to keep up with that as well (of course dropping BR player prices means the tech is gradually getting cheaper to manufacture.)

What's the point of waiting until late 2008 for that strong game library to develop, if they will be too far back in the race to BOTH Nintendo and Microsoft? More likely that great game library simply won't develop at all at that point.

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I wouldn't be best pleased if i'd bought a PS3 already. Sony are really getting desperate. Removing USB ports must have save them at least 20p per console.. pure genius]]>Oct 5th 2007 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7030164.stm ]]>Oct 5th 2007 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/one-hour-later-40gb-ps3-rumor-returns-announced-tomorrow/Oct 10th 2007 1:34AM