PS3 Price Cut, Sort Of

Posted on Monday 9th July 2007 at 17:05 by laszlow

Sony officially reduced the MSRP of the 60-gig model of the Playstation 3 from $599 to $499, but you can still pay the full six hundred bucks if you want to, as they also announced plans to release a new 80-gigabyte PS3 that will sell from the $599 price point.

Five hundred bucks is still pretty expensive, but hey, five hundred is less than six hundred, right?

Source: Joystiq

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Rangers51	Comment 1: 2007-07-09 17:14
	Something I have never really thought of, maybe someone out there knows: what are the specs for the hard drives? Is this something that you can tack in your own drive, how you could with some PS2s? If so, Sony would be better served to start selling a roll-your-own box with warranty limitations.
Death Penalty	Comment 2: 2007-07-09 18:24
	i dont have much high-teck stuff at my house, so if i would get a PS3, it would be the smaller of the three. is there a price drop on that one, or is that still $500? or wait, was it $400?
dont chocobos rule?	Comment 3: 2007-07-09 18:34
	Quote (Death Penalty @ 9th July 2007 13:24) i dont have much high-teck stuff at my house, so if i would get a PS3, it would be the smaller of the three. is there a price drop on that one, or is that still $500? or wait, was it $400? actually, they dropped the 50 gig version, so the smaller of the two would be the $500, 60 gig version. the reason behind this being people wanted the 60 gig version more
Death Penalty	Comment 4: 2007-07-09 19:07
	Quote actually, they dropped the 50 gig version, so the smaller of the two would be the $500, 60 gig version. the reason behind this being people wanted the 60 gig version more really?? i would rather have the one with less stuff for $400. it looks like i might need a tech update, since i dont know what half the stuff on the PS3 actually does.
dont chocobos rule?	Comment 5: 2007-07-09 20:04
	Quote (Death Penalty @ 9th July 2007 14:07) Quote actually, they dropped the 50 gig version, so the smaller of the two would be the $500, 60 gig version. the reason behind this being people wanted the 60 gig version more really?? i would rather have the one with less stuff for $400. it looks like i might need a tech update, since i dont know what half the stuff on the PS3 actually does. well even if you got the one for less when it was available, getting the things that were left out (making it a pretty bad system for 100 less. they took out too much) would cost more than 100, so it really is a bargain, considering its a blu-ray player (which are $1000) and a video game system...so its a good deal
Death Penalty	Comment 6: 2007-07-09 20:47
	Quote well even if you got the one for less when it was available, getting the things that were left out (making it a pretty bad system for 100 less. they took out too much) would cost more than 100, so it really is a bargain, considering its a blu-ray player (which are $1000) and a video game system...so its a good deal i read that statistic somewhere. but still, i haven't evolved technologically enough to actually need that, so i might as well save myself the $100. i kinda want a PS3, since the games coming out within the next year look good, but i am too cheap to spend the money.
Tiddles	Comment 7: 2007-07-09 21:01
	You could always see what the price looks like when those games do come out! I'll still consider one when there's anything compelling to make me do so. I have never really bought the "It's a bargain for what you get!" argument. It's like going to buy a packet of paper, and finding it costs Â£1000: "Why does this paper cost Â£1000?" "It's really good value! Each sheet also functions as a small thermonuclear device!" "But I just want paper."
Elessar	Comment 8: 2007-07-10 02:40
	Quote (Death Penalty @ 9th July 2007 16:47) i kinda want a PS3, since the games coming out within the next year look good, but i am too cheap to spend the money. How is it cheap to wait for the games you want to come out first, and then buy the system? Seems like the natural thing to do.
fatman	Comment 9: 2007-07-10 09:15
	I was planning on getting a PS3 at the end if August anyway, so this price cut comes at a nice time. The exact price cut in the UK has not yet been decided. Apparently we have to wait until Thursday for that. Here's hoping it's at least cut by Â£50!
GamblingCat	Comment 10: 2007-07-10 14:03
	Well its about time, Im still waiting for the 360's Price to go down, depending on if FFXIII is multiplatform (I heard from someone it was going to go on the 360 as well) I might get a 360 or a PS3 at some point in the future.
Death Penalty	Comment 11: 2007-07-10 14:31
	Quote Im still waiting for the 360's Price to go down, depending on if FFXIII is multiplatform (I heard from someone it was going to go on the 360 as well) some of the FFXIII games will be on other platforms. i wouldn't expect the 360 to go down though. Quote How is it cheap to wait for the games you want to come out first, and then buy the system? Seems like the natural thing to do. yes, it is the natural thing to do as far as im conserned (spelling?). i meant that i wasn't sure if i wanted to spend the money on the PS3 at all. but if i decide that i do, i would wait.
leilong	Comment 12: 2007-07-10 15:20
	I was talking with one of the doctors in the department I work in at the hospital about games the other day, and he mentioned that PS3 did their Hard Drives right. He said that when it came out, he bought the cheaper one, and just happened to have a 250 Gig drive sitting around (he and his wife are both radiologists, so money is no big thing) He said he popped it in, and the PS3 rom data immediately identified that the drive was from an outside source and asked if he would like to format it to use with the PS3. I have to give props that sony would anticipate and adapt for that, cuz believe me, if I get a PS3, it'll be the cheap one, and I'll try to reverse engineer one of those 1 Tera usb external drives (if it's the same size as a generic drive. And if I can't, I'll use the tera on my computer, and reverse engineer the 500 Gig external I currently have on my computer, cuz I'm 99.9% sure it is the right size.
Rangers51	Comment 13: 2007-07-10 15:38
	Quote (leilong @ 10th July 2007 11:20) I was talking with one of the doctors in the department I work in at the hospital about games the other day, and he mentioned that PS3 did their Hard Drives right. He said that when it came out, he bought the cheaper one, and just happened to have a 250 Gig drive sitting around (he and his wife are both radiologists, so money is no big thing) He said he popped it in, and the PS3 rom data immediately identified that the drive was from an outside source and asked if he would like to format it to use with the PS3. I have to give props that sony would anticipate and adapt for that, cuz believe me, if I get a PS3, it'll be the cheap one, and I'll try to reverse engineer one of those 1 Tera usb external drives (if it's the same size as a generic drive. And if I can't, I'll use the tera on my computer, and reverse engineer the 500 Gig external I currently have on my computer, cuz I'm 99.9% sure it is the right size. OK, but is the connection inside the PS3 SATA or IDE? SATA would make more sense, but I don't know the answer. If it's IDE, I don't even know of an IDE-based 1TB hard drive in existence, so hook me up with a link, eh?
laszlow	Comment 14: 2007-07-10 18:15
	I know that the pre-installed harddrive is SATA, but only the 60 gig model has a space for flash memory. The 80 gig probably does as well.
Dark Paladin	Comment 15: 2007-07-10 22:47
	I'm not really excited. I don't really plan on getting one. I'm still waiting on a price drop for the PS2. Meaning I'll probably wait until well into the PS4 run before getting a PS3. PS: Any word on a PS2 drop?
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