-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
The Times : Sony is considering pricing PS4 "at about £300"
- Thread starter maquiladora
- Start date
Blood Diamonds
Banned
So I don't have to get a job!?
but its cheaper £ to $ wise than we in the uk were expecting.
I think a lot of us on this side of the pond are bracing ourselves for £349.99 minimum, due to exchange rates and such.
£299.99 would be a godsend if it's real.
I'd expect $450 USD for any reasonable model.
Closer to $450
Hypereides
Member
That would be an absolutely surprising move if so.
Voice of Reason
Banned
Eh, 50 pounds less and I'm golden.
EscoBlades
Ubisoft Marketing
£300? I would be okay with this assuming it is true.
Messypandas
Member
optimistic
£250? A Premium Wii U costs more than that :3
I think it was 2007-2008, though, where PS3 just began a starting price at $399 (correct me if I'm wrong). That's when sales really started to pick up.
I think $399.99 is a significantly lower-than-expected threshold.
Especially with $380 being a Wii U bundle with ZombiU lol.
If it was $350 it would pretty much force Nintendo to price drop this holiday haha.
Well usually they're the 'same' so I'd expect $300. Obviously this means us in the UK are effectively paying more.
Although the PS3 didn't work this way so who knows.
shinobi602
Member
Around $450 would be surprising?
Was anyone here really expecting them go $599 US dollars again lol?
Live Free or Die
Banned
Great price point.
Oh. Yeah. Sorry, was mentally converting Euro for some reason.
That's MORE expensive than I expected, since I thought reasonably Sony wouldn't be insane after the PS3
The Lamp said:
The reason PS3 took forever to get there was because of Blu-Ray. Blu-Ray is no longer expensive. If they can't get the thing to $400, they shouldn't bother.
Gucci Messiah
Banned
$400 isn't a mass market price
The WiiU is $350...you're gonna be really disappointed if you think it will be cheaper than $399
I don't think anyone at The Times has seen anything about British pricing.
I think what they might have seen is things that others have seen - like the Japanese press reporting a price tag 'over 40,000 yen'.
That would be somewhere around £300.
It would more likely cost more than that in the UK if it winds up being >=40,000 yen, but they've just done a straight conversion in this report.
I think what they might have seen is things that others have seen - like the Japanese press reporting a price tag 'over 40,000 yen'.
That would be somewhere around £300.
It would more likely cost more than that in the UK if it winds up being >=40,000 yen, but they've just done a straight conversion in this report.
amstradcpc
Member
Was this prediction hit?.(I have not read about the Destiny reveal):
The Bungie IP will be at E3 2013 even though it won’t release that year and will be hugely ambitious, revealing that the game engine that is so scalable it works on mobile all the way to souped up PCs. It will feature an open world, third person adventure shooting MMO-like game where the players mainly drive and create their own stories, factions and missions with in the game world, a true sand box. This world will be cheap to free to enter and will have it’s building blocks microtranactioned to gain profit.
if so it will be 399 dollars without glasses and 499 with glasses.
The Bungie IP will be at E3 2013 even though it won’t release that year and will be hugely ambitious, revealing that the game engine that is so scalable it works on mobile all the way to souped up PCs. It will feature an open world, third person adventure shooting MMO-like game where the players mainly drive and create their own stories, factions and missions with in the game world, a true sand box. This world will be cheap to free to enter and will have it’s building blocks microtranactioned to gain profit.
if so it will be 399 dollars without glasses and 499 with glasses.
Vargavinter
Member
About 450 dollar, right?
Edit: beaten!
Edit: beaten!
AHA-Lambda
Member
I'm ok with this
and if true WiiU is done for... even more so than already anyway.
and if true WiiU is done for... even more so than already anyway.
Europe usually gets charged more, so $400 would fit with this.
Osiris
I permanently banned my 6 year old daughter from using the PS4 for mistakenly sending grief reports as it's too hard to watch or talk to her
I'm not expecting £299, not a chance.
I expect we'll see £399 and I'll happily pay up to that, but not more.
I'd be a happy bunny to see £350 tbh, but I honestly think that a price under that is a pipe dream.
I expect we'll see £399 and I'll happily pay up to that, but not more.
I'd be a happy bunny to see £350 tbh, but I honestly think that a price under that is a pipe dream.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
Keep in mind UK always, always gets screwed on pricing and it'll be closer to $300 than you'd think.
The 3DS's UK launch price would have been $356.98
Little Old Man
Member
£300 sounds far too optimistic. Megaton if true though, Nintendo would have to cut the WiiU price massively.
And PC lol
Either way, at $400 I'm in at launch. Assuming there's at least 1 launch title I like.