PS3 Price Drop & 80gb SKU
 

http://www.psu.com/node/11984

Sony have today announced that the 60gb PS3 will, from July 10th, be $100 cheaper in the US (an announcement concerning European pricing will come over E3) -- $499.

Also, in early August, the 80gb SKU will go on sale in the US. It is packaged with a copy of Motorstorm.

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6173806.html
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3160853

So that dirty rumor was true. :>

This might be the determening factor if I get muh own PS3 or not,,... hmm.

That, and maybe the fact that Best Buy, I think it is (maybe a few others, too), have some kind of Summer deal in which one can acquire five free Blu-ray films.

Which would be SICKKKKKK! I've got a buddy that works there i'ma have to get the 411 on that shyt.

Geeze, just how much is Sony willing to pay you to take one off their hands? Or are they going to start shipping the PS2-less version for that price in the US?

The reason that the PS3 isn't selling well has nothing to do with the system price, it's the fact that it has no huge games yet that you couldn't have already gotten for another system.

I think the lack of huge games definately helps but everyone knows PS3 will have huge games, or at least they thought so at launch. The consumers decision to buy or not went something like this...oh shit ps3, niiiiice any good games out right now? not really but I can't wait for MSG 4, so how much is it? Excuse me? Fuck that I'll just wait till the price drops...maybe something along those lines, not to mention 360 grabbed all the market share when it was launched and PS3 has been slackin ever since and lets not forget blue ray so far hasn't picked up at all. Its like laser disc's back in the day, just didn't work out, but the year is still young.

Sony seems to be gettin smarter with this price drop. Every system to come out gets the majority of its sales after a couple of price drops, more of them out there to by hence u dont have to wait in front of best buy for a week and they are much cheaper = money in the bank shorty whatcha drank.

I'm still waiting for the next Gran Turismo that you can play multiplayer, I've been fucking waiting for that since GT3 when they promised to put a patch together so we could play online, it never came, waited for GT4 which was supposed to be online, never came, and now the GT "HD" that is coming out next supposively dropped online play, I haven't checked up on it in a while actually but last I heard they weren't doing online til GT5.. which is stupid imo.

GT HD was going to be a full blow game, but was dropped in favour of GT5, which supposedly WILL have online multiplayer. I think GT5 is in production at the moment.

GT HD is now a single track download with 10 unlockable cars, an unlockable drift mode, and an unlockable backwards version of the track. Looks nice, but it ain't my cup of tea.

GT HD has online leaderboard, IIRC.

Oh really? SWEET! Damn man I need to be keeping up with this shyt a little better... Thanks for the heads up

About half an hour after I replied, Sony announced GT5: Prologue at their E3 conference - a PSN downloadable thing (don't know whether it's free, though), with FULL online multiplayer. Being released later this year, and will act as a prologue to the full GT5 game.

EDIT: Here you go, D3V. Some info on it, and a video.

http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/803/803512p1.html
http://uk.media.ps3.ign.com/media/85...d_2052343.html

Damn that's such a weird coincidence, lmao. Checking it out right now * Thanks for the info lenny.



EDIT: OMG IT LOOKS SICK!

Egads. That settles it. I'll be buying a PS3.

I don't know what it is about the GT games - I don't really care for other racing games. I've been addicted since GT3, though.

Yeah same with me. And we've been put off for so long, then we FINALLY got GT4 which is alright, I still play it on my PS2slimline every once in a while, but finally they're getting ready to finished up these other games, so it may be time...

So, later that night, after posting here and checking out the video and whatnot, I go over to my buddy's place (a recent purchaser of a PS3) and he's downloaded the GTHD content. And it's badass. The drift mode takes time to get used to, and I'm sure it'll be much better with a wheel with force-feedback, but it's some slick shit.

The GT5 videos look even better. Can't wait for the prologue in a few months.

Rumors abound from a friend of mine who's been keeping a sharp eye on Sony: They may stop making the 60 gig once supplies run out.

It's not a rumor. Sony has stopped production of the 60GB PS3. When supplies run out, they will stop selling them, however, they expect the current supplies to last untill March, or so.

When it's denied with a "we don't plan to stop selling it for the foreseeable future", they mean exactly that; supplies will last for as far in advance as they plan pricing and such.

I heard they'll only last until September.