Nintendo: US$ 100 PS3 price cut won't make a difference |
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With all the hub-bub about Sony slashing a hefty chunk off the PlayStation 3's price tag along to the tune of a hundred greenbacks, it's not surprising that its competitors have their own take about this sudden move of the legendary company. One of its two biggest rivals, Nintendo, has a rather dim view of the price cut, the opinion presented by none other than George Harrison, senior vice president of communications in the big NoA.
So what's his take? Simply put, he doesn't think that the $100 price cut is anything to worry about. "A $100 price drop won't make a difference. Can Sony afford a $200 price drop? I don't think so."
Certainly strong words from Nintendo's senior vice president of communications. Although to be fair, even with the US$ 100 drop, the PlayStation 3 is still the most expensive console in the market today, clocking in at about US$ 499 per pop.
And it's not just Nintendo giving Sony lip. Other than the rather mysterious Project Falcon, Microsoft Spokesman David Hufford had this to say about a price cut: "If you don't have the games, you have to worry about price. We have the games."
Boy, these game company executives sure doesn't mince their words. It doesn't help that PS3's exclusives have chosen to be not so exclusive, are thinking about not being exclusive, and in a recent case about a certain katamari-rolling prince, have opted to be exclusive to other game consoles. Let's wait and see how Sony will respond to this.
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i am sick and tired of everyone saying the ps3 is the most expensive system. good ol' microshaft actually has the most expensive. the reason i say this is because the ps3 plays hd movies straight out of the box. with the 360 you have to buy the add on in order to play hd movies. so if you take there $400 dollar console and add the $200 dollar hd player that no longer entails sony to have the most expensive system. and in my opinion the 360 does not seem one bit next-gen.
so come on microshaft fan boys keep on ranting!
I mean come on! What competitor is going to praise their competition? Did you honestly expect Nintendo to send a rep out to say "OMG Sony just dealt a huge blow to us! This could be serious... AHHHH!!!".
F__K off, your mother hates you.
if it doesn't make a difference then why are amazon's ps3 sales up 2800%? (yes, you read that right)
Nintendo is competing with ps2 on terms of graphical capabilitys. Ps3 is in 2 wars right now and its price cut is making them sweat. Its only a matter of time before this corny way of playing games becomes something that use to be fun. Play wario ware and you would see would im talking about.
"Can Nintendo afford a $200 price drop? I don't think so."
Because the PS3 can never maintain any decent sales over time, it just spikes. Some people that were holding out for a lower price may get one all at once now, but sales will go back down to the usual pathetic levels again in a couple weeks.
PS3 sales spiked when it launched in each region then quickly fell, and I don't see how this price cut would be any different. If they keep losing exclusive games to competitors and even the big name games' futures are doubtful (like MGS4,) this will continue to hurt the PS3.
Sony would have had a much better chance by only releasing the 60gb model in the first place for $500, or by listening to me and forgetting blu ray and releasing 6 months earlier for $400. It's common sense man!
there would be no god. only bill gates
That would be funny thought, a Wii for 50$.
But the 100$ will make a difference, it seems as what you get is more for less. A good value, the only thing missing is exclusives and good software lineup. (Let's face it, it's pretty thin right now)
You've said precisely same thing about PSP's price drop... Hmm, PSP still sells better...
If you compare the vgcharts, from lets say, day1 of the launch from xbox360 till it reached 4 Million - its about 7 Months. Now compare it to PS3 - from Day1 to an estimated 4 million (atm its slightl under it) - its about ALSO 7 months.
RECAP.... the PS3 sells more or less about the same many conosles like the 360 did. BUT (now it comes) when Sony started, all the other consoles had been on the market too. When M$ started, there was no competition.
awwwww naawwwww
Source: http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php
First of all, the price cut has already made a huge difference. The sales are increasing already by A LOT.
And wtf is microsoft talking about. They dont have the game, their games are horrible. They only have 1 good exclusive and 1 good exlusive on it's way. The current is Gears of War the coming is Halo 3. Wow..2 games microsoft..2 games..Good for you.
About the line up. I really hope Sony has something up they'r sleeves for E3.
Microsoft hit below the belt imo lol. I don't think a 100$ price cut will really affect the sales too much. You've also got to think about the pathetic PS3 line up atm. Nintendo could afford a 200$ price cut though. They're actually the only company making money on their console. I wouldn't be surprised if they were still making money after a 200$ cut. The Wii components are all low cost. Sony on the other hand has been taking a loss and with this price cut the loss is even greater. If it drops another 50$ or more I'll definitely pick one up but 499 is still too expensive for a console that doesn't have all that much going for it. I'm a huge PS2 fan not a huge Sony fan.
Read This:
"Sony can cut prices because the company has fixed production problems with a diode used in the PlayStation 3's Blu-ray disk player, said Tretton, who is based in Foster City, California. He declined to discuss costs for the console.
Clearing up the trouble made PlayStation 3 profitable several months ago, giving the company room to cut prices, analyst Doherty said. Microsoft still loses money on each Xbox 360 it sells, he said. "
Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid+newsarchive+sid+afgq3TkNyH_g
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trying to persuade someone that including the blu-ray drive is quite hard...mainly becasue people dont think ahead for the future - i'm fine with the PS3 coming out after the 360 - the delay wasnt really a delay because of blu-ray (just europe and other areas of the world) and it wasnt really a delay because no official date had been announced for sony to break - they just realised they needed more time to finalize the cell chip and sort out the heat sink for the console - and im glad that blu-ray is included and the cell chip, because it shows sony has actually created their system - the cell chip is partly theirs, blu-ray is partly theirs and they use their memory stick brand in the console and create their own system software and are great company for producing excellent hardware...what have MS done for their console? they have just created the software..the menus and the marketplace, yea, its great software..but the rest of the box isnt microsoft..proccessor, graphics chip etc. and MS are awful at making hardware..33% failure rate i nthe UK HA!
I never said anything about the PSP price drop, and I like my PSP. I bought mine right after it came out for $250 which I didn't think was overpriced.
You don't have to listen to me, but like it or not I'm right most of the time, DerDude (unless I'm cracking jokes at sony's expense.)
I didn't think that you liked a Sony product.
amazon ps3 sales have gone up by 2800% because of he price cut and nintendo are saying it wont mke a difference, it Already is
What is the point of reading a post made by Mr Cameltoe. You know he's going to bash the PS3 no matter what so why bother reading it. My advise would be to simply stop reading his posts and just stop replying. Maybe then he'll go away forever.
the ps3 is mush more expensive in uk . i still fink it was worth every penny. cant wait for HOME, Rachet and clank , GTA IV, and most importantly Battlefield bad company
Yea nintendo could sell the wii for $50 easily and still make money. They just need to require that you trade in your gamecube. They could repackage it in the Wii case add thier new controller.
lol mr common sence is like herpes he will never go away just hide under the surface till the time is right for him to regurgetate the same bs over and over again
duhhh bluray sux duhhhh 4yr lifespan duhhh costs to much duhhhh me smart me 13 and the worlds most knowledgeable industry analist
lol and thank god they didnt drop blueray do you even own a hd tv mcs i mean common how can you not like blueray if you ever ever just admit once that your wroung i will stop thinking your the bigest jackass in the world untill then
Suck harder than the guys who go down on me, add me for a chat, hrvadam@hotmail .co.uk
Nintendo's true colors are starting to show as they get scared, if this wasn't going to be a huge difference Nintendo wouldn't have said *****
Look who's arrogant now, Sony's keeping more quiet than usual and Nintendo's talking *****
yep ninty can talk ***** cause they make abundle on everything from the repackaged gamecube to the not so hi tech motion control to the cheep to make games i dont know if 50 bucks could cover it but would be funny to see how much it cost if they were taking a loss either way once the novelty wares off and the uninformed realise what the true nxt gen can do there sales are going to drop like a rock. even with lower production cost sony is still losing on the hardware i doubt the hardware will ever be a profit. M$ chiming in is just pathetic they have never made a dime off xbox or xbox360 there entire console game division is a loss and will problly remain that way for a long time(1bil more in the hole)
PS3 has about 2 good exclusive, and nothing else to offer really....
I don't see any exclusives to look forward to either.
blah blah blah.
Yeah obviously they would say that. They have nothing to lose.
I rensent anyone saying that the PS3 is the most expensive system. My rebuttal: THE NINTENDO WII is actually the most expensive system. It is running on pretty much the hardware strenght that the old Xbox 1 used to have, plus motion sensing and internet capabilities. (the xbox had a hard drive, and internet capabilities)
YOU WOULD NOT PAY for a last gen, non hard drive xbox simply because they add a motion sensing controller, would you???
Wii owners would.
Nintendo is getting on my nerves. First they sell out and basically say "We can't keep up so we're gonna take the easy way out and make crazy profits." This hurt me because Nintendo was the best and my favorite. Now they are saying stupid stuff just like Sony does. This is a sign of fear. Nintendo knows the only hope it has to stay ahead is the price of the Wii. Their best games will be out in 2007. So the future of the Wii is dim. Microsoft is even worse. They come out a year early with a system that has a 33% failure rate and they taunt Sony and say "They don't have any games." Sorry MS, but Sony has 10x the game you do in the works. And they will be GOOD games. Enjoy your spot right now because you are about to be dethroned by the Wii and then the PS3 soon after. A technically superior system that WORKS and has a 10 year life span with the new movie format blu-ray built in... MS better get working on the 720 with a BD drive, and make sure the system works this time please.
So they're selling 28 instead of 1? big deal
First of all, "sick n' tired" u r dumb. reread your post. The xbox is only 400 or 300. We are not comparing the specs of the consoles to their price. We are just comparing the PRICE, not the hd player and not any accesories.
Next, bj is also dumb. Ps3 sales are not going up. This does not make any sense. WHY WOULD people buy a console if the price is going down in a month. (also amazon ps3 sales are actually DOWN to 29 percent.)
btw that was a good comment jellyrob
Nintendo and MS can both go to hell.
First the ps3 have a 10% fail rate and Nintendo only 3% and Xbox 20%. Now Sony already lost this war. They have a 15% of the market and Nintendo 38% and Microsoft 48%. That why Sony cut the price only $100 that will not to any difference at this level of the war. And to put it easier for you this is like WWII Nintendo is the UK and Russia and Microsoft is the USA and Sony is Germany.
Sony is a sinking titanic
First the ps3 have a 10% fail rate and Nintendo only 3% and Xbox 20%. Now Sony already lost this war. They have a 15% of the market and Nintendo 38% and Microsoft 48%. That why Sony cut the price only $100 that will not to any difference at this level of the war. And to put it easier for you this is like WWII Nintendo is the UK and Russia and Microsoft is the USA and Sony is Germany.
In the world Mr. Uncommon Sense lives in the PS1 and PS2 sold horribly....disregard ANYTHING he says as pure uninformed "trash talk".
well all i know is that nintendo online multiplayer is a nonexistant muther ffuukkn joke and scroowing us for inline multiplayer in mp3c was the straw that broke the camels back,kiss my a$$$$$ nintendo . I bot my sony ps2 online pack back in the day and it kicked a$$$$$ then and i love it and it is still kickin a$$$ and sony has always strived to give us good free online play without excuses, hell even the psp can do 16 player online matches.now sony has alsome games coming out and they are trying it be as affordable as they can and the ps3 offers quite a lot of fetures and a lot of longevity. now they are droping the price 100 dollers and im getting a ps3 scroow all the wwii no online having ffuukkn ninty pricks cuz im getting me a ps3 and im gunna play good mature online games and not gay a$$$$ kiddie little mini game crap,or week as gay 3 year old ps2 ports with all the online goodness stripped away.F*****K U NINTENDO , SONY im happy to purchase a ps3 because i know you guys will support the console great and never abandond online gaming and will always hear your fans.Sony i think the next thing that needs to be addressed is the 60 doller price tag on the games , how hard is it to put in some small amount of in game avretising bilboards to cover the axtra ten or so dollers and sell them at the normal price a game is supposto cost 50 dollars.
Lost Odissey
Mass Effect
Eternal Sonata
Blue Dragon
(Only to mention a bunch of RPGs) Last time I recall Sony got only FFXIII)
the microsoft spokesman is just mad that his console has a 33% failure rate and ps3 has a 1% failure rate. I would like to see his comments about the games in December...that should shut his dumb azz up!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!
You know the ps brand used to be on top. ANd who loses if the ps3 loses, every single fan that every bought a ps brand title.
Think about it.
Quite a few of us have huge game collections. and what are those collections chucked full of? ps one, ps2 titles maybe?
you bet.. I dont want the ps3 to fail. what will become of our past investments if the ps3 fails?
I love the nintendo wii, But I also loved the gamecube.
and I loved it all the same when it was in 3rd place.
The ps3 needs the top spot, And I hope it gets it.
360 owns both so whats the point!!
@ jok;lkl;... thats a dumb comment... play wario ware ... unless u'r a jr. high kid, who can play wario ware for that long.. the game is mind numbingly boring... so i guess your collection of video games includes barbies dress up.. britney speares singing... and thats so raven huh?? the rest of us want to play games like mgs4, dmc4, gow, halo 3, bioshock, not little kids games
I said the same exact thing... The nintendo spokesman meant that it is still expensive. It is still 100 more than the 360 and twice as much as the wii...lol. Me, personally, I am waiting for the 360 price drop that MIGHT happen this year... that would be a huge blow to sony...
I just want to add: Aside from the big old flame war right now, you guys forget the most important part of the picture. That's us, the consumers; we are the ones that will benefit from this, as it is the start of a price war. We will be the ones that benefit from the drop in prices, I am all for that. Maybe within another year or so the PS3 will drop another $100, making it $300, I'll definately buy that. As for Microsoft's response to this current drop in price, I can see the Xbox360 Core will cost $200 and I'll probably buy that.
However as for the Nintendo Wii, I would really like to see it succeed but its library of games is not good. I'm only interested in playing Zelda and Metroid. Meanwhile it seems everyone is buying the Nintendo Wii so that they can play games that are 20 or so years old because the current crop of games just isn't that great. Also I'm not a fan of party/kiddie games, lets face it most of us play games by ourselves and we want those games that are exciting. You guys that are rallying for the Nintendo Wii really have to look at the games coming out, Jenga? Dance Dance Revolution? Pokemon? At the current rate of things Nintendo is selling big because of their control scheme alone and not the games, what happens when the controller fad fades?
No, no and no...first of all, nintendo has like the most market share because you are supposed to include portables, and guess what, DS dominates. Nintendo has the most market share, then Sony, then Microsoft, if you include PS2, and PSP.Second of all, this isnt a war, if you buy a ps3, be happy, if you buy a wii, be happy, etc.
Just needed to say that The Ps3 isnt even in the same category as the Wii and the 360, it would be like comparing 2 computers. Right, the PS3 IS expensive but it is Still (by far) the best media system overall, not only can you play really nice game, but you can also watch HD BLU-ray movies out of the box and to me, that is priceless, watch you ou Microshaft and Nintendo caus the Ps3 is gonna bring you down since it is intended to REAL gamers, not the ones that like gay games like Katamari and Wii Sports
I think you are taking this a tad bit too seriously, If the Ps3 fails, then hooray 360 and Wii...end of story. The nice thing is that hopefully you didnt buy Sony shares, so its not like you will lose any money...
That was funny. Who cares?
yeah its funny... who cares? not gay people like you
The PS3 would drop to 399 (400). As for Wii, as long as people buy it, the games will get better. It will have a good library, as good as re4 is on the wii, I look forward to better games like it, just remember, the Wii uses the most intuitive controls, and it has the most flexible controls schemes of any console now, so I am looking forward to games that can make full usage of it; imagine the concept behind redsteel, except perfected in every way. That's not too far from happening. That is why I bought the Wii.
I don't have HD tvs, so I get by using a vga HD cable. Ps3 doesnt have one, 360 does. I dont have an HDTV, so that does not interest me, nor does the BLU ray because I can't use it. Yes it is great what the PS3 does, I love it, but the price is just so much. I would really have prefered an addon then have it included. By making the price so much, Sony has reversed their image from the nice company that made the ps2 to the greedy company that tries to sell you it's latest media technology... if they did it based on what people voted for, the PS3 would have been 400, and the blu ray Ps3 like 600 to begin with.
Fatal Inertia
Ace Combat 6
Project Sylphead (or how that's spelled)
At least. if they drop the 360 price to $199 I'd buy one for those games.
Until then I keep waiting for
Uncharted - Drakes Fortune,
Heavenly Swords,
Lair,
Grand Turismo,
Haze,
Killzone 2,
to name a few.
BTW: Tomb Raider Anniversary works nice, too (oops, that's a PS3 game).
good comment
the wii has no substance, i went to my little brothers house (hes 5) to play his wii, and it literally got boring in 30 minutes. thats with his 4 games he has. theres just nothing to do! i dont wanna flail around like a f.a.g., if the ps3 had that g.a.y. ass controller i probably wouldnt have bought one. the wii has already peaked, wtf does that say about your console when it flippin peaks before the year is out?? the ps3 has a looong nice climb ahead of it. and that scares the f.u.k. out of nintendo. they better start saving there momentum and focus on hardware so maybe they can get substance from now on.
well just to correct you on somthing the 60gb ps3 was 600 dollars plus tax and it just recieved a 100 dollar price reduction to 500$ and anouther 100$ off whould be 400$ not 300$ so learn how to subtract,PLEASE .
well spoken man,you hit the nail on the head
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actually Nintendo is sending sony there son in japan lol
get off ur dads *****
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Yeah, sony is going to show off a couple more 1080p full motion videos and act like they're gameplay videos of crap games.
Sony lost the ego finally because the actually know they are going to lose.
Not just lose, but lose in spectacular fashion.
Nintendo wii is the best console!!!
xbox 360 and ps3 sucks!
ya its way to freaking exspensive along with 360 :) me going with wii :) Wii rules!
Will you all please shut up!?
Who cares if that guys likes ps3 better?!
Who cares if that guy likes the 360 better!?
Who cares if that guy likes the wii better?!
Who cares about all those statistics?!
Answer that!!!!!
True...
BTW, why are all you ps3 people so proud that it has a built in HDBLURAYWHATNOT ?!
Can't you like, buy those in electronic stores in a cheap price in the future?(like when dvds appeared)
People are so picky these days...
People just think the Wii's graphics suck because
it is COMPARED to the ps3 and 360.
..Should Sega be in the console war any soon?
we like bluray since our storage medium can support 200gb games while the xbreak 360 can only support 8.7gb games.
So would you rather had a game that can have 200gb of content or 8.7gb of content.
xbreak360 is using the last gen storage system and the can't release games on the hd-dvd addon, that's why they should of had it build it.
There for we have uncompressed sound that sounds kick ass, we have higher poly textures, and the ability to fit a whole lot more into a game not like a 4hr long GOW
^ Shut up. You fail.
I would because the Wii is great. You don't because you're a dumb ass.
^*sigh* You make yourself look like a total idiot. Nice job.
Wii's great, the 360's great, I bet the PS3's great too... I just can't afford the PS3... yet.
All this retarded console bashing is so *****ing retarded. Don't like the Wii? That's fine, but stop bull*****ting that it's a Gamecube with motion controls.
well hasnt nintendo got this wrong. With amazon showing a 2800% rise in sale. even if they had only sold 100 before the drop in price, that will mean sales of 280,000.
I've likely played games longer than most of you punks on this string! You Microsuck and Fony fans really sicken me. You say "REAL" gamers but you likely aren't one. First off, games aren't about super graphics (look at those online flash games) and killing as many creatures as you can. Games are meant to be FUN. The vast majority of PS3 and 360 games are FPSs. Now, there's nothing inheirently wrong with FPSs (I've been playing them since Goldeneye) but there are so many FPSs with NO innovation, no new features, that are pretty much just "cut and paste" Halo. As for the Cell processor, that thing SUCKS!!! I suppose you don't know anything about programing, so I'll explain: Multi-core systems are remarkably difficult to program for. This is the reason that few PC games are multi-core compatable. The Cell processor has 9 cores, the most sophisticated gaming processor (the Intel Core 2 Extreme) only has four. Do the math. By the way, the PS3 and the 360 appeal mostly to PC fans. Honestly, I do not like PC gamers. In their pursuit of hardcore games, they have killed many genres of games and have nearly killed off countless others (namely, my beloved RPGs). And as for the Blu-Ray drive, most consumers CANNOT tell the difference between 1080p and 1080i (regardless of the lies the tv industry has propagated), and I don't believe any format will win. People have finally gained control of how, when, and where they obtain their media (ie downloading). Oh, before you even mention Final Fantasy XIII, FF has been downhill since FFIX, (with the possible exception of XI).
Money which I don't have. I can't even afford a
Wii as it is. I would not even pay $100 for a Blu-Ray player out the gate anyway. The technology is far from perfect. With DVDs, the people who purchased $1000 players got screwed badly. The $100-$50 players out today have more features and are better than the first-gen players. Besides, I would not buy a Blu-Ray PLAYER. I've seen it happen before. If Blu-Ray succedes, then you will eventually need a Blu-Ray BURNER. Sony already has a line of BD-RW burners available. The Blu-Ray discs used by Sony for the PS3 are only 50 gig discs (dual-layer). That 200 gig limit is only for the 8 layer disc that Dony is trying to make, By the way, the lenses on your PS3s cannot read more than two layers. Besides, the PS3 only offers video content, not the cool non-movie features the other HD players offer. And I see your comment down there about 2800%. Go back to elementary school. There you'll learn that 2800% of 100 is not 280,000 but in reality 2,800. You devide percents by 100 to find out the true number you're multiplying by.
I meant to say Sony earlier. If I was trying to make fun of the name, I would have thought of something MUCH more clever. Oh, about your 280,000 figure there, that should be 2,800. It is only a ratio of 28 times, not 280,000. If you are upset about me calling you out about that, then consider this: I am COLLEGE-EDUCATED. You obviously failed fourth grade math.
I hope you realize that Microsoft is going to go overboard with the 720. Every game company did so with their third consoles, Atari, Nintendo, Sega, Sony, and I'd say that Microsoft is more likely to go over the top anyway. (Look at Vista. XP is better.) Actually, if Sony had launched a year earlier and Microsoft a year later, then the PS3 would be like our reality's 360 and the 360 would be like our PS3. It's just a huge game of chicken.
i bought a 360 and i wanto 2 buy a wii but is sold out everywhere but the ps3 and 360 r not dats weird
Name one good original Wii game. Exactly.