We've nothing to go on but a good man's word, but we're hearing that the permanent retail price of Sony's aged
PlayStation 2 console will soon fall below the magical $100 mark. And really, it'd be about time. If you'll recall, Sony last adjusted the price of the PS2 in (surprise!)
April of 2006, and if this here tip proves true, the company will select April of 2009 to push the MSRP down to $99.99. The image above comes from a generally trustworthy Kmart pricing system, and while we're certain you'd all love a
PS3 price drop to follow suit, we've no reason to believe that one is close enough to touch.
Update: As a couple of tipsters and commenters have pointed out, that screen's most likely from a K-Mart Remote Management Unit (RMU) screen. That'd make EVT SP "Event Special" -- or in other words, a sale price for the listed days of April 5 to April 11.
posted March 29th 2009 10:31PM
To be honest I can't believe they're still selling it.
They've got the PS2 down to a system-on-a-chip with an internal power supply, so it probably costs next to nothing to make. Good. Hopefully used prices will fall accordingly.
can we get a mobile ps2 then?
About time.
I totally agree.....WHO CARES!!! oh wait, they're all here...on this forum...all 5 of them....sorry guys didn't see you there.
I bought a PS2 for $99 last year for the first time. Bought a ton of new games for less than $10. Can't wait till the PS3 drops to $99, oh wait I can.
@fastm3driver:
Ok, so the PS2 wasn't your cup of tea. We get it. But 140 million PS2 sales says that LOTS of people disagree with you. If you stopped playing your PS2 when you got your Xbox, then you missed out on way too many great games for me to take you seriously anymore.
People who want to play God of War aren't going to pass on the opportunity to play it because it's not HD, or because another console has wireless controllers.
Reply button doesn't like me today...
This is still a bit high of a price point for a PS2 IMHO. I still say save the money and buy a PS3 if you can, completely rapes all other consoles this generation.
u can get a vhs player for cheap too !huge movie library.....
Actually...PS2 sales are over 150 million and there are still plenty of new games being released on it.
In most of the Europe countries, the PS2 costs around 170€, which is around 250$. - A price drop like this would boost PS2 sales for a while, because the game library is really really huge.
In India the PS2 Slim was just released last year and Sony lowered the PS2 game licencing fee to almost nothing, which means indie devs and devs in poor countries can make games aswell - meaning that the PS2 will stay on market for another 5+ years.
Sorry, no. That screen shot is from a K-Mart RMU. I'm the electronics manager in the k mart in northern oklahoma and the EVT SP means that it's going on sale soon. It's an Event special or a sale price if you will.
That's evidence? Haha I could get the same result off my TI-83 you nobbits...
I had no idea the PS2 was still being sold, officially. Clearly, I'm not the first. Then again, I also had no idea that Kmart still existed.
What with all this talk of OnLive and the slurry of competing platforms that will doubtlessly be in the works from rival companies, the current generation may end up being the last or at least the penultimate.
With consoles left as thin clients there would of course be no need to keep replacing them, not as frequently as least.
And the hardware wouldn't necessarily need to be much more serious than a PS2, so perhaps what we can take away from this is that a hypothetical console capable of acting as a thin client for remote games could be built and sold for $100.