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Playstation 3 Prices Revealed?
Wednesday, May. 18 2005 | Author: jeremyIGN is reporting that an article published by a Japanese newspaper quotes an official from Sony who apparently told the newspaper that the PS3 would sell for “less than 50,000 yen each”.
Assuming that the price difference between the US and Japanese versions of the PS3 are not huge, that translates to somewhere around $465 for the system in the US.
Comparitively, the XBox 360 is rumored to have two price points, $299 and $399, which I guess means there will be two different XBox 360 systems released with different specs.
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34 Responses for "Playstation 3 Prices Revealed?"
May 18th, 2005 at 11:23 am
1I think all next gen systems, minus Revolution, will debut at 399.99
May 18th, 2005 at 11:44 am
2Didn’t the PS1 and PS2 start with a 500 price tag or something similar?
May 18th, 2005 at 1:20 pm
3From some google and some wayback it looks like PS2 started at $399.99 in the US.
May 18th, 2005 at 3:12 pm
4No PS2 startes at 299.99. I remember because I skipped school and went to the mall to get one!
May 18th, 2005 at 4:11 pm
5I stand corrected.
May 18th, 2005 at 5:41 pm
6The 2 Xbox prices are probably defined by the different bundled xLive versions.
May 18th, 2005 at 7:22 pm
7I’m assuming that the 2 xbox’s will be dictated by both the Live subscription and the size of the hard drive.
May 20th, 2005 at 8:58 am
8Well, it’s still cheaper than the Neo Geo from back in the day.
May 23rd, 2005 at 3:06 pm
9I just hope PS3 is less than $450 :P
May 24th, 2005 at 9:48 am
10Crep DUDES
June 8th, 2005 at 3:18 pm
11man I Can’t give u 465$ I think I’ll stick with the Xbox360
July 8th, 2005 at 11:02 pm
12Selling the PS3 around $450, if SONY does, will be a giant downfall for SONY. Because all the kids are going to want it and there parents are not going to put that much money into a Gameing console.
July 16th, 2005 at 10:23 pm
13My son is wanting aplaystation 3. The average working person will not be able to afford one. Price is to high this will be a down fall for sony
July 25th, 2005 at 7:02 pm
14If Xbox made Xbox Live free like Playstation’s online gaming, then there would be a lot more Xbox fans than playstation fans.
August 18th, 2005 at 8:57 pm
15well than everyone shutup and start saving you money.. you cant buy a 30 thousand dollar car with cash you get loans and save your money. so shut up and save all of you who are talking about the price is to high it is high but if you think it will rulle the gaming world cause it will than just save and wait
August 20th, 2005 at 4:50 pm
16Yeah I don’t remeber where I heard this but I think they’re doing two prices the stripped version made just for gaming would go for 300 and the beefed up version That can make phone calls and all this Crazy Stuff Dill Go for 465 i think it was IGN or Gamespot
October 28th, 2005 at 1:48 pm
17If the PS3 debuts at 450 dollars it better not have the problems that the PS2 did. (e.g. disk drive wearing out and the other various problems that made us go out and buy another.) I had to buy the new slim PS2 cause my original quit working after 1 1/2 years >.If the PS3 debuts at 450 dollars it better not have the problems that the PS2 did. (e.g. disk drive wearing out and the other various problems that made us go out and buy another.) I had to buy the new slim PS2 cause my original quit working after 1 1/2 years >.< …. and yes i took good care of it!
November 1st, 2005 at 12:57 pm
18I’m done with consoles….fuck it, too much money.
December 1st, 2005 at 8:45 pm
19If the PS3 cost $400 I’ll most likly buy it but fuck man sony is a dumb ass to sell it for $400 cause the Xbox 360 is like only $300 and I heard that that xbox will most likely put out halo3 when PS3 comes out so like people will buy the game then the PS3.
December 2nd, 2005 at 10:41 am
20THEY ARE NOT GOING TO SELL IT FOR THAT BUT AT FIRST LIKE A PRE ORDER OR SOMETHING IT WILL BE 500 BUT WAIT ABOUT3 MONTHS AND IT WILL BE 300
January 8th, 2006 at 10:19 am
21everybody on this website is a fagget geek and you need to et a life nd play sports or something and shutup about game systems
January 8th, 2006 at 11:06 am
22bob, I personally do not really care about the game systems, but I think it’s ridiculous that you are suggesting people should forget their interests, and instead go run around chasing a ball all day
January 27th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
23I agree, I do play sports AND video games so forget you. Also you need to learn to spell:
“et a life nd” (Get a life and)
Nice spelling.
Anywho, I think that the PS3 is going to kick the Xbox 360’s butt by the time it hits the market. The 360, in my opinion, was rushed out to the market, while SONY is taking their time and doing stuff right. I am a PS2 fan, main because of free internet play, but also because the Xbox was more expensive when the systems were first out in the market (within like 3 months). Anywho, that’s my input.
February 21st, 2006 at 6:29 pm
24silly bob, he cant even spell nonetheless make a worthy argument.
March 2nd, 2006 at 4:14 am
25Guess what I already have a PS3 my paps is one of the execs at sony and he managed to get one b4 evrybody else so you guys can keep on blabbering on about the price but at the end I paid shit 4 mine.Ha
March 13th, 2006 at 5:49 pm
26gay
March 15th, 2006 at 4:31 am
27xander is a liar and a fag so is his father
April 23rd, 2006 at 9:29 pm
28i was watching g4 tv and they are saying the playstaion 3 will be up to 550.00 and on ebay about 6,000
May 19th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
29Well at E3 they said 20GB hard drive will cost $499.99 and the 60GB will cost $599.99
July 8th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
30Why would a game console cost so much? The graphics can’t be that much better than the xbox 360. If you sell it for a price lower than a 360 and then you will reach the top price and will sell more than microsft, but you have to learn how to compete against other product companies.
November 27th, 2006 at 3:42 am
31hey i am from delhi i want to buy playstation 3 can u give me the address of shop
November 27th, 2006 at 3:42 am
32hey i am from delhi i want to buy playstation 3 can u give me the address of shop
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:05 pm
33This is to the person from Delhi wanting to purchase the PS3.
Please contact at abhimangem@nashyartech.com
Thanks.
Abhiman
February 28th, 2009 at 5:21 am
34Does someone know when the new batman for Xbox360 will be released?
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