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philb120

Alternatively wait for the PS3 to come to Tescos and then wait for a price error

phanco

you have to remember that empire stores is primarily an old mail order cataolgue - they always price everything up by 30% at least to fund the "interest free" payments !!

ajfoggy

PS3 will not kill the 360, no chance!!!

Both the machines are capable of out doing each other in different areas, only advantage of a PS3 that i can see is that the next-gen drive is internal.

360 has a proven live platform, PS3 does not.

Choice is yours, but that freemans price is a rip off.

biglugs

£500+ for a console and £60 for games - they can get stuffed! I think I'll spend the money on a decent LCD TV and get an Xbox for next to nowt instead.

Zippy123

biglugs wrote:

£500+ for a console and £60 for games - they can get stuffed! I think I'll spend the money on a decent LCD TV and get an Xbox for next to nowt instead.

I think you hit the nail on the head. This is too expensive by far for most people and it will have to come down in price to sell in any numbers that will make developers to make games for it.

AMO

ajfoggy wrote:

PS3 will not kill the 360, no chance!!!

Both the machines are capable of out doing each other in different areas, only advantage of a PS3 that i can see is that the next-gen drive is internal.

360 has a proven live platform, PS3 does not.

Choice is yours, but that freemans price is a rip off.

I think most people especially on MSE are pretty smart with their dosh. We all know that technology will ultimately depreciate, that being the first to own the next gen console is a fairly expensive hobby and that initially, especially in this case, the first set of games to be released will be poor and not utilise the power of the console. Not only that, you are not guaranteed a console before Xmas and if you go to an Ebay trader, you'll get ripped off even more.

We know also know that things will begin to pivot the other way come next Xmas and thats when things become interesting. Less development will go into PS2 games. BluRay will have come down in price. Cost of games will come down. As games a global like Nintendo's handheld consoles, not restricted by PAL/NTSC or region encoding, games will come down a bit more in price and purchasing overseas will become that little bit more easy.

Unlike the XBox 360, programming a PS3 is supposedly a lot harder and it will take a year before companies become competant.

Getting a Nintendo Wii / XBox 360 will be yesterday's news come Xmas 2007 and most people should be able to just afford a PS3 by then. It's a question about buying the right thing at the right time.

I would guess by then people will be speculating also about whether to postpone buying a PS3 until sprint 2008 and/or wait for the redesigned PS3 which will no doubt hit us around then to reduce manufacturing costs, bring the console up-to-date and make the console smaller as per the norm with Sony.

AMO

biglugs

For many parents £260 for the Xbox-360 plus games was pushing it a bit far. Expecting to sell a PS3 at upwards of £400 with games at £60 each may be fine in Japan but I doubt it will get very far in the UK at that price. You can buy a pretty decent TV for that much these days, or a computer which is a damn sight more use than a PS3 will be.
I particularly like the comment on the Freemans website "A built in 60Gb hard drive stores all of your music, videos and games downloaded through Sony's online services" - which translates "pay us a shed load of money and we'll let you listen to music which you have to pay us an even bigger shedload of money for". Sorry, but even the British are not THAT gullible.
This machine is great though - it will also play DVDs and CDs - just like my £20 DVD player

ricflairandy

Gemmzie wrote:

The PS3 will kill the Xbox and the Nintendo, you'll soon see why. Have been sent several surveys on the machines, blind choosing, from all three companies and a 4th company selling HD DVDs.

PS3 will win, Sony have the buying power.

mabey 8 years ago, but not anymore they havent!

Blue ray will break sony if it fails. They have staked far too much on it. The movie section of sony has been the only thing making money for the past few years.

biglugs

Does Mr Joe Public even understand things like Blu-Ray yet, or HDTV, etc.? Most people will just look at this box and think "b****r me - that's a LOT of money for a games console" and get their kids a new bike for Christmas instead.
For this console to succeed in the short term it will have to sell millions, like the new PS2 did. But new technology takes ages to get mass market appeal, especially when there is such a massive premium price attached.
How are they going to persuade parents that being able to pay Sony loads of money for movies on blu-ray DVDs, that you can only appreciate on a TV that you don't own yet, is a good thing?
And all that persuasion over just the next 60 days is going to be an incredible marketing feat.
I for one will wait until next year before even making the decision on whether to buy an HDTV or not, and this will be well down the list after that.

tomS_4

Interesting article here: apparently both HD-DVD and Blueray sales are well below expectations, HD-DVD is currently outselling blueray and the first batch of Blueray movies:

Ken Crane's CEO Casey Crane and Bjorn's president Bjorn Dybdahl noted their employees were embarrassed delivering store demonstrations of the first batch of Blu-ray films. Staffers could discern little distinction between the discs and their standard-definition counterparts.

http://www.cepro.com/news/editorial/14608.html

Interesting, though of course its only early days...