European PS3 To Be Less Backwards Compatible Than Elsewhere?
from the nice-work,-Sony dept
Sony seems to have done an amazing job doing almost everything badly in the launch of the PS3. The console hasn't been selling nearly as well as the company hoped, with rumors spreading that the company is already considering a price drop. Well, it seems that perhaps by "price drop" the company actually was considering a "cost drop" by removing certain features. Someone who prefers to remain anonymous pointed us to the news that the European launch of the PS3 will actually be coming out on different hardware that likely removes much of the backwards compatibility with PS2 and original PS games -- a feature found on the PS3s released elsewhere. However, with that feature reduction, there's no indication that the price will be dropped at all, meaning that PS3 buyers in Europe may end up paying more for less. The reasoning is even more bizarre. Sony claims that "over time" this should let it lower the price of the PS3 and also claims that the company needs to spend its resources concentrating on making the PS3 better. While it's true that Sony should be working on ways to convince people why they should shell out so much for a PS3, usually a company does that by making its products offer more value and more features, rather than less value and fewer features.
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is-it so
ps europe is where the goodies are mr US Citizen
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Europe = cashcow for Sony.
And we don't have the option of getting the 20GB version instead.
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Price Comparisons
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Re: Price Comparisons
Fact of the matter is $599 != €599.
You could go online and only pay $599 (+shipping) to get a PS3 from the US, and that'll still be cheaper than getting one in European stores.
Or is that why Sony sued Lik-Sang into oblivion? To make sure that Europeans will have to pay the extreme premium on Sony's excuse of a game console.
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Price Comparisons by Cixelsid on Feb 26th, 2007 @ 3:19am
Converting the price Euro to Dollar is not an accurate way to compare prices, europeans get paid in Euros, not in dollars.
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Are you retarted? The fact that they get paid in the euro does not change the fact that they are worth more.
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Sony are ripping the UK off ... fact !
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Also
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Decision Made
With everything else I guess its time to admit he's right and go with the 360
Thanks Sony for making that an easy decision in the end
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Don't give in!
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Are you?
On average, Europeans have a higher income than Americans. But the cost of living is higher also.
Going into a department store in Europe and buying a PS3 for 599 Euro is not the same as going into a department store in the US and buying one for $790.
The price tag of 599 Euro is not as strange as you might think. People are payed more, and therefore things cost more.
Go look at the price of a 360 on both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
UK = 269 Pounds ($526)
US = $399 (203 Pounds)
A 25% markup.
PS3
US = $599 (305 Pounds)
UK = 425 Pounds ($832)
A 50% markup.
Slightly crazy? Yes. Unusual? No.
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and for those of you deciding on the xbox
http://www.hardware.info/nl-NL/articles/amdnY2pwZGia/Krassende_XBOX_360/3
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Re: and for those of you deciding on the xbox
Wow that's a really good point.
The 360 drive is just fine.
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lol, or just order from the US off of a web site and have it shipped over.
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buy stuff
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US vs European Pay
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shipping overseas
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Well, that settles it
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LOL
I heard that Sony just announced a new Blu-Ray player that will cost $500. Shouldn't they just market the PS3 as the cheaper Blu-Ray player?
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Re: LOL
I find it odd even for Sony to offer a $600 Blu-Ray player with the PS3 on the market. People are already coughing up that much for a machine that plays blu-ray and games. Why shell out that much for a machine that only play blu-ray?
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correction
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