40GB PS3 pops at a big box
By Thomas Ricker 
posted October 30th 2007 2:34AM
posted October 30th 2007 2:34AM
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posted October 30th 2007 2:34AM
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This sku has been out in new zealand for a couple of weeks...
Thanks, Captain Obvious.
oh wow. big price drop. $19.82 for a PS3. haha.
I was going to make a snappy comment, but I figure you must be joking. Price tags generally go below items on a shelf. Only when products hang on a peg hook do the price tags appear above them.
He was joking, duh. No one would believe that! If he did, you would see a sea of:
"XDDDDDDDDD ROFLMFAO!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!..."
Get the point? ;-)
And anyone can see that it says "PS3 MVP BASEBALL 2007" on it.
i wonder what bham store.. thats where i live. lol
They got them at the new Wal-mart where East Wood Mall used to be... I saw it last night
dear sony: GIVE IT UP. xbox + pc + wii cover everything already. ps3 is not needed for anything
So you mean Microsoft, who entered the game last of the current console ranges (xbox vs playstation vs nintendo) and made for sure Sega was out of the game (which originally was the strongest competitor to Nintendo from the 8 bit Nintendo entertainment system vs the sega mastersystem) - should prevail over Sony Playstation - that was the first to really challenge Nintendos dominance?
@Geir E
To answer your question, yes.
Me, I personally want to own a system that has the most games that seem fun and entertaining. Most of the PS3 exclusives are jumping ship and releasing for both systems, so why own a PS3 when the great games look, play, and feel identical on the 360? The only exclusive (for now) that looks good is MGS4, and you can bet that Sony PLEADED with Konami to keep it that way.
If you played the stock market with your mentality, you would lose your ass. Know when to sell.
@Geir E - For a long time all we had was Sega Vs Nintendo. After the Genesis and Snes Nintendo pretty much gave up trying to compete and started going for niche markets instead leaving Sega to the main stay console market. So Sega started work on the next gen console, the Saturn. But SOny announced they were entering the market and when Sega saw the specs they panicked and threw a load of extra chips into the Saturn making it more powerful but a nightmare to write for.
Sega then came to realise they could not compete with Sony and so gave up on consoles and along comes MS to challenge Sony's new found dominance.
From the way I see it Sega got complacent and Sony whooped their behinds. Now Sony has got complacent and MS has whooped Sony's behind.
The Playstation was revolutionary. Fully disc based with 3D graphics yada yada yada. But here we are on the third version of it and not a lot has changed. Hell even the joypads look the same. MS realised that the future of consoles was not only a console that could act as a media center but also one that provided easy and interesting online experience. It is the online part where Sony falls down.
Also I believe a lot of developers are saying the PS3 is hard to write for which makes me think that instead of concentrating on adding features and ease of use like people want they decided to concentrate on raw power and so produced a powerful console that requires your code to jump through loops to use.
Either way Sony beat a complacent Sega and now MS has beat a complacent Sony. They should either give it up or start to realise there is more to winning the console war than raw power alone.
Ah, the Playstation 3 and Spider-man 3 go so well together.
(I mean the font, not how both were big-budget disappointments)
thank you..
Now, i just need a psx/ps2/psp emulator for this one....
This package is on the german shleves (MediaMarkt) since last week. Pricing: 429 Eur including the 40GB entry-version (399 Eur) + bluetooth remote control + Spiderman 3 Bluray DVD
Same here in Sweden, we've been able to buy the 40gb version for like 2-3 week... Although it cost like 700 USD. And we consider that real cheap(ish).
Well we also had the PS3 40GB for about a week over here in the UK well I live in London so I can't guarantee for the rest of the country.
Not a Sony fan, but $399.00 with a movie . . . It's going to sell.
Stop with the: ''they have been releases here in __[eu country]''.This the the US release.
"Sony corporate birth canal" - wonderful metaphor.
Also, your Mad Dog 40/40 bit wasn't lost on all of us.
@Alex,
Thanks. Always good when someone catches the joke.
Thomas
With the current exchange rate I could buy a PS3 in the US with the same money that bought me a PSP in France (249 euros). Nice!
Saw it yesterday at my local BB in the NW suburbs of Chicago. What street date? :P
It may be on the shelf, but will anyone buy the thing?
is there a possibility of the 40gig PS3 having a firmware based backward compatiblity? If not im not buyin ..
No a future firmware could not allow it be backwards compatiable. It's missing more than firmware. I also love the lack of digital card readers and two USB ports. Awesome.
There once was a day when PS3s flew off the shelfs now they collect dust for months.
The backward compatibility is the killer for me. I have only 1 PSOne game that I play from time to time (FFVII), but have a good amount of PS2 games that I do play semi-regularly. Finally for a PS3 to step down a bit in price and not offer what does set it appart from the competiton, is a shot in the foot for Sony. If you are reading this stuff Sony (which we know you aren't, just like you don't read emails sent directly to you), bring the backward compatibility to ALL PS3 models and make the BluRay the bundle/addon.
BR- add on is quite impossible. What will the games play on?
FFVII> use an emulator. Ps2,well use a ps2.Otherwise fork out an extra 100.I welcome a cheaper model, even if it means using my old ps2. When has it become that 400 dollars is Alot of money? DAPS/Digital Cameras/pc components are all in/close to this price point. Im sure no one complains that an 8800 ultra is close to €700 whilst the gtx is €600, GTS is €400. Electronics have always been a little expensive.
I live in Puerto Rico and I saw the advertising at wal-mart on sunday and I went to see if they had it and there were like 3 or 4 on the shelves.
This is old news... I live in Future Land in Europe and the PS3 Slim 400 Terrabyte has been free with purchase of lederhosen for a couple light years now.
"decent" - How do people get jobs writing when they can't spell?
I'm glad I'm not the only one that was annoyed by this. And "accouchement"? Are you kidding?
It's STILL 400 bucks. ARE YOU KIDDING.
Nope, it's a flop.
http://nexgenwars.com/
5 million to 12(360)/12(wii) million. Yeah, nice job Sony.
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Long-awaited Sunday. The school is a rest today.
First of all, I who gets up later than usual turn on the switch of the television made by SONY.
The purpose is to see the animated cartoon of Japan that looks forward every week.
It is read manga magazines that it ends.However, it is not read slowly today.
It goes to buy clothes of Halloween with papa.
It gets on TOYOTA of the papa boast, and it faces the shopping center.
News that Ichiro made new high hitting it from car radio again. Times how many integral new high?
It is Pokemon's arrival that bought. It is this and wrong none popular person. The software of NINTENDO that wanted and was new was firmly checked in it at Christmas.
However, though I want the figure of princess Tencor.
It returned to the house after it had eaten a delicious sushi lunch. I also read the continuation of the cartoon. Papa dug up TOYOTA.
Hereafter, it seems to go to the movie theater with the mama to see 'Last Samurai' said wanting see.
The elder brother seems to have faced girlfriend's house with the motorcycle of HONDA. Even the practice of the Karate that is in the evening might date it.
I think. The United States is that might be a very rich, good country. I was born in the
United States and really good.
I sincerely love United States. And, the United States culture is proud.
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i work at cc and we got 29 of them in today.....because it came with spiderman bd ....which just so happens to come out today....as far as when they are available idk...
So does this new 40gig version come with the BD remote also??