PS3 to be released in Australia for AU$ 999.95 |
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Gamers down under, mark your calendars. Sony has finally given the Australian PS3 launch a date, and it's going to be on March 23. The company has also confirmed the launch price for their new console, which will be AU$ 999.95 (US$ 778). The price is a bit lower than the European price of GBP 425 (US$ 835), but it still makes the PS3 easily the most expensive console in the market.Only the 60GB PS3 will be available initially, with the 20GB model becoming available later in the year if there is sufficient demand to warrant its inclusion in the line-up. That right there is your cue to start pestering your friendly neighborhood Sony representative about making the 20GB version available in your territory.
The PS3 will also launch in other PAL regions - Europe, the middle east, Africa and New Zealand - on the same day it launches in Australia. Sony says that around one million units will be available for the worldwide launch. That number will be accompanied by around 30 game titles.
Via Australian IT
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are they *****ing nuts?
Last time i looked, the UK was only a SMALL part of Europe. And most of the other european countries pay in EUR, not a single one besides the UK has GBP as currency.
The eurpean price is 599 EUR for the 60GB model, that currently translates to 776,54 USD, just about the same as in Australia.
The discussion, why console prices in europe are higher, is as old as consoles itself and i won't go into that now.
Yes and GBP it will stay because it has always been the best system, most of the other countrys currencys who went for the euro were in a sham. Half a million of whatever = something ridiculously low value, a MILLION whatevers = even lower in other currencys.
and they expect to have a successful launch how?.. heres something, get a pc instead. might be a lil more expensive but its still better than this piece of *****.
We may be small, but our hearts are large. perhaps pounds were used in this article to describe Europe because we r English + larger than Ireland
Thats $999 AUD not USD!
And thats one reason im buying a PS3 in china, christmas 07.
Sony PS3... can you say failure? lmao
Australia's not a big market, but the PS3 is definately going to boom at that price.
Wii60 - for all your gaming needs...
u idiots do realize that the 360 and wii are both marked up in the uk as well right?
Everybody in Australia has known this for the past six months. gg qj lol
i live in sydney australia and my friends and i all bought
a xbox 360.
they are f_ _ _ _ _ _g dreaming if they think we are going to buy it for that price.
frankly no one gives a ***** about blue ray. we think dvds are just fine.
what we complain about is that we need better movies.
cant believe the strategy of sony is to force an expensive blue ray player onto the masses.