If you're still licking your lips while gazing at that limited edition
GTA IV Xbox 360 Elite, you may have the opportunity to make your GTA-branded console ownership dreams come true in a slightly different manner. Out of seemingly nowhere, a Grand Theft Auto IV PlayStation 3 bundle has popped up on a Swedish retailer's website, offering a 40GB PS3, a copy of the game, a decorated box and little else (
DualShock 3?). Judging by the package art, we're guessing there's no suave paint job waiting on either side, and Webhallen has the unit priced at 4,499 SEK (or about $755). Before you ask -- there's no telling whether this thing is headed stateside or not, but
surely Sony / Rockstar Games wouldn't let such a moneymaker swim around the US of A, right?
[Via N4G, thanks John]
posted Apr 7th 2008 12:23PM
YAY... GTA... YAY!!!!!!!!!!!
$755 is perhaps correct, but since the swedish price is included tax and lots of other fee's, the price would be better compared to 4499/10 = $449.95 or something like that.
Which is about $50 more than the 40GB option, right? Yeah seems possible for it to come over stateside. Maybe later rather than sooner, but it probably will.
"Steal this PS3"
Still limping along with a PS2... Had been holding off on a PS3 til GTA IV came out.
When the PS3 was released and there was no GTA IV on the radar, I often joked with my friends that I would buy a welded-shut steel box with a PS3 and the next GTA permanently installed for $X00 when it came out -- looks like I am not too far off the mark ;)
Looks like this is the package for you then.
With DualShock 3?
I heard Nintendo was putting more Wii consoles in Europe so they could increase profits made per sale - rather than giving them to America with the weak Bush dollar.
Is that part of thee reason this package isn't coming to America right away?
When I buy GTA4 I'm getting the full pacakage so I get the bag and the safe deposit box.
@Flashpoint
North American and European systems are different hardware. PAL vs NTSC.
There's a Gran Turismo 5 PS3 bundle in Europe too, and that doesn't appear to be coming stateside either.
Sonystyle.com has a "racing package" which includes GT5 and an extra controller:
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&categoryId=8198552921644551853
Well that's cool, I hadn't seen any mention of that up till now. I would get that but I already bought a Costco PS3 bundle - 40GB PS3, Ratchet and Clank, Spider-Man 3 (movie) and two Sixaxis controllers for $517.
ohhh yeahh GTA for playstation all the way!!
YESSS!!!!!!!!!!! finally got one up, if its DS3 standard, im finally ready to buy a PS3
Fake?
Man... too many bundles from Sony.
While I appreciate that Sony is firmly behind the idea of the pack-in game, it does make it harder to keep track of what exactly you're buying if every single playstation you buy at a given point in time is a limited edition.
Too many?
Standard bundles are:
40GB - Spiderman 3 Blu-Ray
80GB - Motorstorm game
Add GTA:IV bundle and GT5 to that list.
Meh... please. You only really need to know 80 GB vs 40 GB. That's it. The others just have varying pack-in games/media and can hardly be put in the same category as SKUs that have actual hardware differences.
Here's my point. I walked into a Target a few days ago. On the shelf, they have a 40 GB PS3, and next to it an empty spot where the 80s used to be. They won't be getting any more of that particular SKU, according to the Target guy.
I suppose that's because the new 80 GB PS3 will be out for summer with MGS4 pack-in, but that leaves 3 months without an 80 GB PS3.
Now it looks like the situation is similar for the 40 GB as well. Why would anyone buy it with the Spider-Man 3 pack-in if it's just going to be discontinued for a GTA4 PS3. Or whatever?! Why should the game consoles go in and out of stock for huge swaths of the year like this?
I think Sony lost a sale with this. I would have picked up an 80 GB PS3 and bought a few games between now and MGS4 if it were available. Now I'll just wait until June.
"...offering a 40GB PS3, a copy of the game, a decorated box and little else."
It looks like a Console, A limited Edition copy of the game, and a DS3.
At $755, it's not worth it IMO.
I'll just go with the Metal Gear Edition. :)
$755? wouldn't it be cheaper to buy each (game/console) separate?
I doubt it, Europe gets pretty screwed on prices
The price has VAT tact on (up to 25%)
@ rawd
PWNED! :D
Why would you buy PS3 version when XBOX has special content made exclusively for it by Microsoft
Exactly. And some Sony guy is downplaying that fact too!
Get the 360 version it's better.
If you don't have/want an xbox but instead do have/want a PS3...
What good is the content when the console is out being repaired
LMAO @ rawd FTW
That's hilarious! I love my 360 and have had no problems with it; just to add, it also matches my PS3 (Elite).
I would still get this game for PS3.
probably because there isn't special content made by MICROSOFT for gta4....
$755 dang. So, how much is a regular 40gig PS3 package cost in Europe? $700?
No, it costs €399.
No dollars in EU, don't get currencies mixed up
yea, I was referring to Engadget :D
But yes, it's extremely expensive for Americans. Again because of the weak dollar.
And the PS3 costs €254 in the states :)
That $755 is the standard price for a 40GB SKU without any game in Sweden... so basically that bundle would get us GTAIV for free.... and yes, it truly is that expensive here. Compared to the Xbox and Wii prices in the rest of Europe, Sony adds 12% more to the price than the other two once you cross a scandinavian border. I could get one Xbox core and one Xbox Arcade for the same money as the standard PS3 bundle.
Also, I unfortunately doubt this bundle will have DS3 bundled... Sony hasn't said a word about it here yet, and actually seem to be denying its eistance in the rest of the world.
the SIXAXIS is discontinued so I assume it will be packing the DualShock3
I hope so...
anyway I've got my DS3 for months and my PS3 for 1 year so it wont hurt me in any way :D
The Sixaxis is discontinued in the US at least, no word about Europe yet ;) Since it's not even released here yet, it would be highly foolish to have it discontinued.
The regular 40GB in the same store is 4189 SEK, which is $703 with the same rate.
Ummm...Bush dollar or no, the prices in North America are vastly cheaper than in Sweden. I don't care about the outrageous taxes in Sweden (25%, as posters have said), it is still a hell of a lot more than Canada or the US. I moved to Sweden from Canada a year ago and I import/smuggle in all of my electronics. I could by a base system in Canada for US 460 (Canadian dollar equivalent to the US dollar). I ain't gonna fork over all those Kronor for a PS3 when I can bring one back when I visit the Far North!
IT IS NOT $755 !!!!!!
IT'S 4,499 SEK !!!!!!
Don't get the concurrences f*cked-up please
You can't compare prices with the weak Bush Dollar, please don't. You'll only get a headache.
If it'd be released in the states it will cost $399 or less.
Aythamie: I didn't mix up currencies. Read the article. It was converted to $755 USD.
So I'm curious what a regular 40gb PS3 in Europe costs in USD.
You have to remember that you are dealing with Yankees. There is no other country outside of Amurrrika.
I may have to sue you for plagiarism because "weak bush dollar" belongs to me.
LOL @ the stimulus checks.
yea, I was referring to Engadget :D
But yes, it's extremely expensive for Americans. Again because of the weak dollar.
And the PS3 costs €254 in the states :)
Why is it the Bush dollar when neither of the Bush Presidents have their faces on a coin or dollar bill?
Steve Ballmer for President!
don't go offtopic
It's not only the weak dollar though... the price in the US is about the same as in Japan, once you convert the Yens to dollars.
But the price in the scandinavian countries are 10-17% higher than the rest of Europe... (17% in Sweden with the current exchange rates) which is unique to Sony (the Xbox and Wii have a difference in price of about 6%).
EU countries add VAT to the price, the price you see here in the US never includes tax, we have to calculate it on a per state basis. This is another reason why a direct dollar conversion doesn't give an accurate picture.
For example, I live in Florida would it be right for me to say that Sony is screwing New York because the PS3 costs more in NY when you add NY's higher sales tax? Of course not, its not Sony's fault that the sales tax is higher in some states than others and Sony is a business not a charity their not going to start adjusting prices around the US just to adjust for the different sales tax.
We've been having some bad Bush weather here in North Carolina. I had to get a painful Bush dental cavity filled this morning. I wish this slow Bush internet was cranked up to Cern Grid speed.
@cduran01 It would be more accurate to say that 4495SEK equals $600 + sales tax, yes (25% in Sweden and everything from 17.5% and up to ur 25% in the rest of Europe).
This doesn't lessen Sony's overcharging in Scandinavia though. Where everybody else (not only consoles, but all electronics) charge 10SEK per Euro (current exchange rate is 9.37, so it's a good enough estimate to add for our higher than average sales tax), Sony takes 11.25SEK per Euro. This leaves them 12.5% higher than the competition and that's not really fair.
It's not that hard to understand why Scandinavia is one of the few regions in Europe where the 360 still is king though.
the swedish average monthly salary it's worth about $5000.
i hope this helps to put things in perspective.
the 360 version is not better cos the exclusive episodes have nothing to do with the game. the game is something, the episodes are something else, they wont even be free.
the ps3 version is exactly the same as the ps3 version, even the contol layout is.
by the way its not 755$ that is the exchange rate for the USD and SEK, in europe itll cost €399.
p.s microsoft have scammed rockstar cos they gave them the money for the content and they will get the money back when r* put the episoded onto xbox live. r* have been stupid themselves not to put the episodes onto psn cos:
1: the episodes have to be a limited size on xbox and on psn they can be any size.
2: not every xbox owner has a hard drive to put the episodes on and every ps3 come with a hard drive as standard.
3: if 10 million people have xbox live out of 17 million, how many of them have a hard drive? 5 mil?
any psn users can add me: williams-234
grossly misinformed.
1) the size limit is for XBLA games. there is no size limit to DLC.
2) ok so the users who don't have hard drives wont get the DLC
3) ok so the users who don't have hard drives wont get the DLC
like you said about the money ms paid rockstar, ms gets any money up till 50 million for when DLC is bought. so if fewer people buy it, it's not rockstar that's getting screwed, it's ms.
o think you will fid that you are grossly misinformed because all developers are having trouble putting hd content onto xbox live cos the download limit is 15 mb. if you dont belive me check pages on google news
Not sure where you're getting your info from Will but you are wrong. There is no 15MB size limit for DLC on Live. If that were the case all of the Rock Band DLC I've purchased is my imagination b/c it over 15MB each. Not to mention the COD 4 map pack that was almost 450MB.
You really are stupid (well your source is - no person offense intended)because how come I have just downloaded COD 4 map packs (DLC) that are about 400mb and have seen 300 in HD that took up a whopping 6.7GB with full surround sound. Please tell me what search you used that person ought to be shot (not literally) since this has never been case - although admittedly arcade games are now limited to 150mb. (btw I love brackets).
On the actual subject looks very tempting
Prices in the uk
PS3 - no games is normally £300
Xbox 360 pro (normal with 20gb) - £200
elite £250
arcade £150
Is this a bundle put together by Sony, or just a bundle put together by the retailer, complete with a drawing of a box?
Official from Sony. Retailers are not allowed to redo the box.
The price for this bundle would be $399 in the us.
Just like the $399 bundle in the us is 4499sek here atm.
That's why we import our games =)
I don't understand why all Xbox consoles had an HDD but not true for the 360, why did they go back? Hmm the original did use 3.5" HDDs and the 360 uses 2.5" ones.
Because the PS2's HDD was optional and it slammed the original Xbox in price. MS wants to more price agressive this gen, so they made the HDD optional.
I first bought a PS2 because of GTA III. Now I will be buying a PS3 because of GTA IV (ok and blu-ray too). However I will not be buying an SKU without backwards compatibility, this is a dealbreaker. I guess I'll be waiting until they can replenish the 80GB version. And unfortunately for Sony I think they are missing out on a ton of sales that will coincide with the massively hyped April 29th release of this game, more so than even MSG I'd reckon.
Atari Jaguar FTW!!!
Play have a 360 premium + GTA bundle at £200 ($400) ! http://www.play.com/Games/Xbox360/4-/5387997/Xbox-360-Premium-Console-%20-Grand-Theft-Auto-IV/Product.html?P36=7ZXZYK
Needs to be cheaper
Ok guys, for a bigger official picture go to http://www.gameblog.ro/2008/04/07/ultimul-update-gta-iv/
Also, the price is confirmed 439E in Europe for this bundle!
I would find it highly amusing if Microsoft decided to release a GTA IV bundle as well. Seeing how the Xbox 360 20GB SKU is SEK 2695 (MSRP) and the game will cost SEK 599, seeing them drop a matching bundle at SEK 2995 and undercut Sony's price by a third. If nothing else then to push Sony to at least drop the extra "scandinavian fee".
I just hope that when I finally do buy my PS3, I will not have to pay more than needed. As it is now, I could probably take a car and drive all the way to Germany to get it cheaper. People in Denmark definitely should be able to at least...
...actually I know for a fact that I could not take a car and drive it to germany to get it cheaper... since I don't have a license.
europe gets all the good stuff.
AWESOME!!!
Whatever... I'm tired of these silly European bundles that will apparently never make their way stateside. I've been shopping for a PS3 for well over a month, waiting for SOMETHING new to appear in the form of a bundle or even the white PS3 (which I dislike anyway). Last weekend I was done waiting and bought the 40GB model with some gift cards. CC had a free controller thrown in and I'll just seel the Spiderman 3 disk on Ebay for more of a 'savings.'
For those of you planning to buy a console, just look for deals on the current SKU's that will be closing out and buy GTA when it hits stores. Meantime you can start playing NOW.