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No PS3 Price Cuts for Two Years.

A new Dow Jones story has confirmed that Sony plans to stick to their original plan, including not dropping the price of the PS3 for at least two years

zonetrooper56279d ago

Well it looks at though i will have to wait 2 years if this is true, maybe if they bundle the PS3 with Killzone 2 and MGS4, then i shall buy it.

techie6279d ago

As I said. Why would Sony say they were going to reduce the price this year? That would mean everybody would hold out and Sony wouldn't get any sales now, which they need. The longer the amount of time they quote before a price-ctu the more people will give in and just buy one now...

KingJames19066278d ago

Price trumps EVERTHING! And if consumers have a choice, (i.e. Wii, Xbox360, PS2,) Consumers will choose the product that gives them the best quality at their pricing terms. That includes goods and services. I don't have to by their product and in fact if I want it and deem it to expensive I'll wait until depreciation. I did that last year with my auto purchase (2001 Acura MDX Touring.) I really liked the SUV in 2001. It won all kinds of awards that year but with a price of $40,000 dollars tax included, I wasn't willing to take. Enter something called CHOICE and TIME. As I already had a car (like most on this site have gaming consoles or Gaming PC's) I waited until the price suited me. I picked my certified vehicle up for $19,900 tax included with 50K miles. On my terms. I got my eye on the 2007 MDX Tech package $45,000 with tax.) I’ll see it in 2011 @ 50K miles. See I can wait. But, I can't wait to see your reasoning when Sony lowers their price before that 2-year timeframe in the US and PAL regions due to Microsoft lowering their price of the 360 (It’s going to happen before this Christmas season.) I mean if your logic made sense, why did Sony lower the price in Japan 20 percent when it launched there. That wasn’t the original price Mr. Kuturagi quoted at Japan's press event back in 2006. Surly Sony could have just made the Japanese people give in and buy one eventually. And even with the price of the PS3 being 20% lower (than the rest of the world) the Wii is still outselling it 4 to 1 in Japan.

techie6278d ago

Well yes that is what I'm saying. But if everybody did what you said, Sony would be in the sh't. If Sony say there will be no price cut for two years...most people who want a ps3 won't be willing to wait and so will cough up. If they say...oh they'll be a price-cut around christmas, then most people will wait until christmas to get it (if they told that this is the definite case) and then Sony would have low sales. Simply corporate stuff.

KingJames19066278d ago

No one waits for a company to announce a price drop. You find out that one happened through word of mouth or your local retailer. Also, Sony is in Sh'T at this time due to price. Otherwise no one would keep asking the same question over and over and over again when they get in a room with a Sony executive. "When will there be a price drop?" Sony’s answered this question for the umpteenth time but games and financial analyst still ask that same question. "When will there be a price drop?" "When will there be a price drop?" "When will there be a price drop?" "When will there be a price drop?" "When will there be a price drop?" "When will there be a price drop?" "When will there be a price drop?" "When will there be a price drop?" "When will there be a price drop?" "When will there be a price drop?" "When will there be a price drop?" "When will there be a price drop?" "When will there be a price drop?"

Captain Tuttle6279d ago (Edited 6279d ago )

They're waiting until the prices of Blu-Ray players come down...then they'll have to lower the price.

EasilyTheBest6279d ago

The PS3 will drop in price significantly by 2008.
If the PS3 sells by the million all through the summer and all the way to christmas with Wii type sales then perhaps they can keep their price, but we all know this isnt going to happen. Microsoft will see to that with big 360 price drops....

lil bush6279d ago

if they would just drop the price $100 dollars or so theu would sell much more consoles and that true when blu-ray does go down sony will drop there price guarenteed

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Microsoft once tried to nab LittleBigPlanet from Sony after a few drinks

It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.

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XiNatsuDragnel2d ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

Cacabunga22h ago(Edited 22h ago)

Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful

ApocalypseShadow1d 16h ago

Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...

They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.

They're scum.

Zachmo18221h ago

Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.

Rynxie11h ago

And why do you think MLB said that? I believe Ms approached MLB.

ApocalypseShadow10h ago(Edited 10h ago)

Totally ridiculous comment.

The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.

Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.

Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.

And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.

You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.

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Hereandthere2h ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.

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Notellin7h ago

"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."

Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.

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Hereandthere2h ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Hereandthere2h ago

They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.

OtterX23h ago

"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."

Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.

RNTody23h ago(Edited 23h ago)

Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.

But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?

Inverno22h ago

Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.

Inverno20h ago

They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.

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fsfsxii7h ago

They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.

Inverno6h ago

Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?

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