Man I didnt know things in the UK were THAT bad... Anyways, maybe your brother who works at SCE may get a discount on the PS3:dance:
Not close.. we are talking £500. A second wireless controller isnt going to be less then £25-35. And im guessing every game is going to be £49.99 if not more!
£425 :drool: arrgghh just for the machine, I though the Xbox360 price was prohibitive but PS3 lol who will be able to afford that??? I can see a lot of people in the UK to go in the debt for a stupid game machine, ridiculously priced in my opinion... Who cares about Blu-ray? DVD is good enough, RSX what a laugh (E3 crap demos), Cell production and development nightmare, I guess the first PS3 models won't last long and Sony will tell to get another one... (Though the same can be said about the HD-DVD addon for the 360, seriously $199 for a stupid optical drive???) I just want a game machine for f..k sake... Surprisingly enough Sony think again that people in the UK are loaded we only got the value pack for the PSP (though I'm still trying to find out where is the value?) and we only get the most expensive PS3 package :drool: Well I think I'll wait a long time before getting one, I got my PS2 for free (supposidely broken) maybe I'll be lucky again... Sabre
This is truth. Scarily so, and depressing to think about. It's why I moved to France. Beer and wine here are incredibly cheap; in fact, most consumer goods are! Videogames though.... They cost as much as they do in the UK. The cost of living in the UK is exorbitantly high. So this £425 PS3, when you factor in basic living costs (and I'm not talking about luxuries), then it is very expensive. VERY. Unless you're president of a company, in some other high paying job, or a crooked member of government whose skimming off the top (they all bloody do it, the bastards). For oridinary proles, this will be a tight squeeze.
pre orded mine see what some people are syaing that the price is to high, but if you think that why are you even posting just to rant about teh price
Haha, I love how you based moving country on 'beer and wine' prices :-D Seriously though, I know what you mean. In Italy I can get 2 litres of wine for €1.50. Produce, groceries are all considerably cheaper and of a higher quality. It's hard to think of the good points about living in the UK.
Well there are a few incentives to move to the UK, (in my case from France) first salaries are much higher than in France, true the cost of living here is terribly high but in the end you still earn much more than in France for the same job. Second, in the UK the business culture is closer to the one in the US, you work you win you don't you loose. In France you work it's cool you don't well anyway the government you will give more than enough money to live without working. I think in the UK jobwise you are given more responsibilities than in France where getting a better position is very political and don't necessarily depend on your performances. I agree wine and beer are more expensive than in France but I don't drink much so I can live with that. But I have to agree with Szczepaniak not everybody is making a big salary in the UK and at £425 they're having a laugh even with the Blu-Ray shit. The idea of integrating everything into one box is good in some ways but are people ready to put that kind of money into a console/media center? Don't forget you need to add the cost of a flat panel on top that to really benefit from it. You more likely to spend £1500-2000 for the PS3 than just the £425. Sabre
That's probably one of Sony's mysterious ways to promote the hype, at least PS3 gets talked about even if nobody is impressed by it.
:clap: I only got a 360 as it cost mer vitually nothing I can see the PS3 selling out as ever but for hardcore fan boys If Wii is around the £150-200 mark a few more purchases........well I have started saving already for mine :thumbsup:
Kutaragi doesn't get it. The Japanese consumer environment is very different from most other 1st-world nations in that in Japan, people generally have a little more discretionary income as there isn't much incentive to save for stuff like houses (as they're so preposterously expensive). People can blow more money on stuff like ridiculous gaming stuff or $500 MD players or $5000 Apex'i turbo kits or what have you. This isn't meant to be some generalization about everyone in Japan having money to burn, because that obviously isn't the case, but the consumer landscape over there is markedly different from, say, here in the US, or for that matter, the UK or Europe. For an American consumer to buy a PS3, he'll be weighing it against his $5k monthly mortgage payment and seeing what he has left as wiggle room, for a Japanese consumer it'd more likely just be a matter of not buying some other discretionary item.
The Japanese price is 60000 yen for the 20GB version and open price for the 60GB. However rumour has it that the 60GB will sell for around 75000 yen. (I hope that it is more like 70000 yen, but it will probably be higher)
That is a joke ! 60'000 yen for a PS3 or 20'000 yen for a Wii. You could buy 3 Wiis for the price of one bloody PS3 ! NOBODY has that much spare cash ! Not even me and I waste a lot ! Yakumo
Yeah you maybe wasting a lot of cash but that's for a good cause isn't? SEGA retro games :thumbsup:. Sadly the bottom line is that still a lot of people will buy the system, eventhough they might won't get a lot of good games apart from MGS4, just like me who bought the 360 and the PSP... Where are the games??? Sabre
75000 yen is still only £360. If this no region encoding thing proves to be true, what's to stop me importing one from somewhere like YesAsia (no P&P/tax) and saving myself £75-100? Admittedly, I'd need a transformer, but I already have one rated at 300 watts.
Wow, yeah, I hadn't thought about that. That means that people in the UK are paying the equivalent of about 90,000 yen (@current day rate of 209.5479 Y/GBP). Now THAT is nuts.
For the same product it is ridiculous, I think all companies perceive the UK as mega rich, I agree that the differences in classes are much higher than anywhere else in Europe but still. At £360 for a PS3 maybe I'll maybe start to think about it but that would be at the expense of my Xbox360, hum... tough one, especially since I started to play Halo 1 & 2 last week... Sabre
