Sony follows Microsoft with price cuts
- July 16th, 2008
- 6 Comments
Sony announced this week that they are slashing $100 off the price tag for the PS3. This fall, the 80-gigabyte version will be marked down from $500. The 40-gigabyte version, which sold for $400 will be discontinued.
At $400, the 80 GB configuration will be a direct competition with the new Xbox 60 GB model. Microsoft recently cut prices on the Xbox and is phasing out the 20 GB model entirely. Their new 60 GB model will be priced at $349, the same previous price of the 20 GB version. By offering larger hard drives at the price points customers are familiar with, both companies hope to spur sales. An extended price war seems iffy though, considering the Wii is by far, the cheapest of the new consoles at $249.
Sony continues to try to entice customers by adding video downloads. While the Xbox announced a deal with Netflix earlier in the week. Nintendo, for now is staying out of the streaming video fray.
Jakob Montrasio (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Damn! I just bought a PlayStation 3 two weeks ago…
Alex (Who am I?)
2 months ago
I’m sorry. Were you confused and thought it was a 360?
dwalk51 (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Zing! Can the 360 fanboy please come to the front desk to claim his prize?
Christophor Rick (Who am I?)
2 months ago
If you look at the comments in the previous posts about this you will see that I clearly stated this would happen. I knew this would happen when Sony said “no…” because they always deny a price cut right before it happens.
Steve Jabs (Who am I?)
2 months ago
The only thing I care about on that damn thing is the blu-ray drive.
Major (Who am I?)
2 months ago
lol another one of the 500 misleading articles being posted about this.
All that happened was the 40gb got 40gb extra hdd and a ds3 controller. No price cut, they didn’t lose BC… nothing… except more idiot xbox fans grabbing blindly in the dark for any reason they can think up to pretend the xbox is better.
There is no game bundled with this, no flash card readers, its just the new 40gb, so there will most likely still be the bundles with BC, and they may even be the rumored 120gb ones instead, especially with movies for sale now.