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Thursday, May 18 2006

SCEE discuss PS3 pricing  by James B at 23:43

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EuroGamer has an article featuring snippets from an interview with Sony Computer Entertainment UK's managing director, Ray Maguire. It basically confirms what we already knew from GameStations pre-order pricing, the PS3 will be £425.

"£425 is definitely not a mass market price, no," Maguire admitted.

"But you think about the price, think about the price of just a Blu-Ray player. It will be cheaper than a Blu-Ray player just by itself. So fundamentally we're going to be great value just from that point of view without even looking at the games side."

If it's not a mass market price, what exactly are Sony's projected plans for this console then? Answers below please.
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Maz
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19 May 2006 01:14
i think their focusing too much on it being a media player and not enough on the fact that its to all intents and purposes a games console.

i didnt use my PS1, PS2, or Xbox as DVD players. why the hell would i use a PS3 as a Blue Ray player (not that id even toutch that DRM ridden crap)
Re0sLess
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19 May 2006 02:08
I must be a long fall from Sony's pedestal, as they keep falling.

Maz is right though, they need to see the PS3 for what it is, an overprices games consol, all the extras are meant to be a sweetener to entice people, not the focuses of the system.
Scrappy
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19 May 2006 02:51
That's the way most gadgets are going now. They all keep adding more featues letting it do more things and lose focus on what the bloody things were designed to do in the first place.
Jammin
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19 May 2006 11:06
a PC can do everything a PS3 can... basically? Well PC's can do everything! mwhahaha
Maz
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19 May 2006 14:29
In simple terms the WII is probably the last True games console.


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