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Looks like everyone but Sony will soon be in the Black | |
Holy shit!. I'd wish this applies to my country too, I swear people still think we're still in the 2006 60gb model era. | |
20% is not a giant, lip licking discount. Comparing this price to the launch price isn't really fair play either. It's probably worth $199 for the Blu-Ray player and Netflix software alone. It has the best Netflix software of any device especially since Microsoft broke their video playback with that new UI. I read it was fixed but it still looks much worse than the PS3 on the same HDTV. | |
Ironically enough they were supposed to be available in white too. | |
Once you go Black, you never go back! | |
Well, my friend, I can't force your tongue. We shall just have to agree to disagree about the level of financial reduction required to induce a lip lick. | |
Never wanted a PS3, only thing I like about the PS3 is the lack of region lock. I really want to play Persona 4 Arena but I cannot import it for 360 and It hasn't had an EU release date yet. I can just borrow my cousins PS3 to play it if that's the case. | |
Fair enough, I am used to Steam deals, 20% is nothing. I want 75% off or nothing...LOL. | |
Yes, something to spend all that spare cash I have on! Wait, nope, that went to replacing my window and GPS, sorry Sony, thieves cost you a sale. | |
Even if I had the room in my TV stand for a PS3, I don't, I wouldn't buy one. I'll stick with my PC. | |
oh you got to be shitting me, I just got one, DAMMIT! | |
What is this?! *Goes to work to find out about this firsthand* OT: This is good news. People are usually on the fence about getting a PS3 or a 360. I don't blame them when they choose the 360 because it's cheaper (On the short run).
Did you open it already? (I'm guessing yes). I know GameStop will take it back if its still closed and you got the receipt and you bought it less than a month ago. But that's assuming you bought it there...less than a month ago...and you have the receipt...and you sat there staring at the box all this time. :/ I'm leaving now... | |
If the return policy where you got it from is still valid, and they didn't scan the serial number or the box doesn't have distinguishing characteristics, then you can still do it. Just buy the cheap one and return it to the other place using the receipt from there. | |
Well, this is pretty awesome... still a tad expensive... I mean, we're getting new ones pretty soon anyway... I've fallen out with my PS3, ever since it began to overheat like a motherlicker. | |
Seems to me to be a push to get rid of stock for the upcoming next generation consoles (though those still seem to be a ways off, so not completely positive of that). Personally, I've grown tired of consoles. From the security problems, to the heavy handed bans for minor infractions (or in some cases, none) to the money grubbing ways of DLC and online passes....nothing from the news on consoles have made me happy I have one. The future doesn't look any better, with higher prices for both consoles and games, my desire to play a game can't overcome all the craziness involved in the industry right now. | |
While I agree it has the best Netflix playback of the consoles, I'm not sure a 200 dollar asking price is so hot compared to BD players for a quarter of the price that are Netflix ready. Can't speak to their interfaces, but a dedicated BD player with Netflix is pretty cheap now. | |
well sony be making any money off this price cut?? If now this just GameStops way of getting some extra cheddar in their pockets | |
Well, those HD rereleases are looking closer and closer to me... | |
Why is console gaming so expensive? When I wanted to upgrade my aging 4 year old PC that was only used for email and youtube, it only took a $100 video card and a $30 memory stick for me to play current PC games on high settings. | |
I can tell you that my Panasonic BD 85 Blu-Ray player has the worst Netflix interface and can't be easily updated because there is no HDD. No subtitles for example because that was added to Netflix after this player was made. | |
While the $200 price point is attractive, I'm sticking with the one I have. Because MINE'S SO OLD, IT PLAYS MY PS2 GAMES. | |
What kind of games are you playing? Just off the top of my head Witcher 2 or BF 3 would require a $450 or so card to run on their high settings. That said, the current PC $400+ cards are almost exactly what consoles will get two years from now, in their next gen. And the good old Radeon HD 6950 for $240 bucks will bring you eyecandy miles ahead from current consoles. | |
WELL SHIT! Guess Ill have to go to Gamestop to buy my PS3 after all. | |
What? No you crazy. No PC games need more than a ~$150 video card unless you are running 16x AA 16x AF, which is just making your PC into a space heater rather than actually improving the image. http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html Radeon 6790 is smoking Skyrim at the moment with added super-high res modder texture packs and shaders. The GeForce GTX 480 is nearly the fastest GPU available and only costs $229. | |
Excellent just what ive been waiting for! | |
...hasn't the Ps3 been at $199 for a while now? | |
It seems Amazon has priced matched GameStops price on the PS3.My brothers birthday is coming up soon and this will be a excellent surprise. | |
Suit yourself, but a Radeon 6790 won't even get 10 FPS on BF 3 on their ultra settings, it will probably get a sub 50 FPS framerate even on medium-high ones, you also won't be able to play SC II on ultra witout lag (not that any sane person runs on ultra nway) or witcher 2 with Ubersampling. And of course you can run skyrim with high res textures, it is a videogame designed to run in 8 years old hardware like the Xbox 360, adding higher res textures is only demanding some more vram. Lastly, I think you are very missguided on your sources, a GTX 480 should score on a synthetic benchmark like 3DMark11 around 4k, current top of the line GPUs score 9k-10k. G3D Mark? I don't think have ever heard about that synthetic, and after seeing their charts it's no wonder, they don't seem to predict the cards performance under real games at all; and their card selection seems kinda random, Quadro? Lolz, why the heck are they even including Workstation GPUs there? | |
That certainly bites. I'm impressed with the XBox 360 one managing to be even worse than the one before. This is one of the reasons I do love my PS3, so your point is not completely lost on me. No not even flash media internally? The one I got my mom can update, but it doesn't have a disk drive, just flash memory. I figured that would be standard. She doesn't have Netflix, so I don't know if hers can be updated. | |
Man, I played SC2 on Ultra back on my Geforce 8800GT. The only problem was that levels took 2-3 mins to load because I had 2 GB of RAM at the time, so I switched down a few settings to high. In game performance was absolutely flawless. | |
And of course we are talking about different things, you are most probably thinking of the single player campaing and i am talking about the final battle of Desert Strike (custom map) or 4v4 with motherships. | |
It can be updated and has been but there are limits because there is so little internal memory. You even have to use an SD card if you want to use BD Live (why would you though, it's just ads). I doubt Panasonic will use the SD card to store Netflix software though. On the other hand, there really is no limit on the PS3 since it has a HDD and a pretty large one at that. Also, on the Panasonic, it has problems with it's wireless adapter and even plugged in via ethernet, it is slow and due to low memory can only store 100 titles. That means if you have Star Trek TNG on your queue, which has almost 200 episodes, only 100 of them will load in at a time. If you want to watch an episode not loaded in, you have to start the episode you want to watch on the PC (so it marks that episode as the last one watched), then reload the Netflix software on the Panasonic. You don't have those problems with the PS3, 360 or PC. Now granted, some blu-ray players will have more internal memory but none will have as much as a PS3 with 160, 250 or 320 GB. | |
What does this mean for european Gamestops? Like here in Helsinki, Finland? | |
Well, I did it. I bought another PS3 but I got a free game (Mortal Kombat Komplete but you can also get Batman Arkham City) for $199.99 so I really got 33% off. | |
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GameStop Chops PlayStation 3's Price
Sony's top console has never been cheaper.
With so much chatter about the next generation of consoles hypothetically appearing in the near to moderately near future, we quickly approach that awkward time when you don't really want to buy anything currently out there. After all, who wants to drop a handful of Benjamins just to find out his or her purchase will be made obsolete within the year? While it's mostly impossible to break free of the obsolescence-fear cycle completely, certain things can help. And one of those things is a giant, lip-licking discount. Behold: GameStop's $199.99 160 GB PlayStation 3!
Console hardware discounts are hard to come by; not only is Sony likely still losing (or darn close to losing) money per console sold at the normal $249.99 price point, but retailers almost never up charge the merchandise from that cost to remain competitive. The resulting situation is what's nearly always a fixed cost until a system gets slapped with a permanent price slash. Could a price drop across the board be on its way, or is this simply a wacky limited offer?
The answer is unclear, but the 20% off isn't just a leaked image for some future promotion. It's legit. You can snag a brand new PS3 right this very second, right here. Granted, $199.99 isn't an amount you're likely to find beneath the couch cushions (unless you're Richard Garriott), but it's a far cry from the system's original retail launch price of $599.99 for the top-of-line 60GB model.
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