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As much as I suspect people will want to buy a PS3 given it's technical power, I doubt people would be willing to spend 500 bucks on a console. And by what Kutaragi's saying, it may well be over the $500 mark.

This will mean the XBOX 360 will take over and the Revolution will do better than initially expected.

I spent more than that on a DVD player. I spent more than that on an amplifier. I spent more than thart on my original PlayStation. Why wouldn't I spend that on a device that is far more impressive than any of the aforementioned.

What happened, did all you pinkos become allergic to rampant consumerism?

He could be trying to throw a curve ball for MS. Get MS expecting PS3 to be expensive, and thinking "woot! we can up the ticket price on 360 and cut the loss per box"

Unlikely, though.

An very expensive PS3 is a hopeless PS3. Sony could always slash the price after six weeks. After all, it's no unprecendented. Just shove a controller and a game the way of the early adopters :)

Sega Saturn was released at £400, and PS1 £300. Possible omen?

Say this was also the case for XB360 and PS3 respectively. And also say there's a 3-6 month gap between releases. M$ could be cunning-lingus' and cut another £50-£100, a couple of days before PS3 release. That difference may be too much for your average chav, esp if the 3rd-party support offers them FIFA 2006/ US Army: Nazi killers/ NFS: Pimp my Nova.

That's what it'd take to make me buy an Xbox 2Pi*

*I still work in radians.

It could be a ploy by Sony to get everyone expecting the PS3 to be expensive, them they'll reveal the price close to lunch and it will cheaper than everyone expected and sell like hot cakes. Not the most likely outcome but possible!

*imagines the day when debug PlayStation lands on doorstep*

*gets hard*

Lets face it, it is going to be very expensive. But if it is good enough people will buy it, especially the older gamers who have good jobs.
I do fear though that this is going to alienate younger gamers who will not be able to afford one. Sony is putting all its money into realism and power which are going to make games more complicated. Console gaming has matured and i like that but we shouldnt be ignoring the younger audience.
PS3 is going to be expensive, XBOX 360 will be less expensive and Nintendo Revolution is going to be a fair and affordable price. I am a Nintendo fan so obviously i am interested in Revolution. But i am still excited about Xbox 360 and ps3, however, price is going to have alot to do with which one i invest in.

Good. Kids should be outside playing football and sniffing glue with their friends and not inside playing with computers.

Agreed. Kids who ask for a next-gen system for a birthday, or christmas, will have parents looking at the systems, see which one plays Madden, Fifa, ect, and end up buying the 360. (I'm ignoring the Revolution until there's acutal details about it. I'm not anti-ninetendo though - since I got my 'Cube, I've settled that I will buy the next system, along with either the 360 or ps3)

There will NOT be a large enough difference between the PS3 and the 360 early in the console's life to justify buying the PS3, unless they have a killer app up their sleeve (that's not KZ2. FPS' are going to be on the 360, and just as good, from the looks of them)

I would question whether gaming has really matured, rather than the gamers have gotten older, and justify their gaming fixes. Is there a huge difference between Half Life 2 and Half Life 1? Halo and Doom? Is GTA really a mature game, or does it just package mature themes in a way that is accessible by pre-pubescent kids?

I could go on (of course) but I don't want to bore people to death.

I'd pay up to £299 for one.

A few weeks ago, that was about US$590. Now it's about $523.

Sony may think price isn't an issue, and that's true ONLY when there isn't another item on the market that is, in consumers' eyes 100% as good, and cheaper. If that item also had considerably better online features. That could really hurt Sony.

I get this horrible feeling they'll go £ for $ and sell it at £500. And nobody will buy it for 2 years. By which time nobody will care.

That would be suicidal madness on a akin to insanity with added self killing.

No-one would pay that. Not even me, and I'm afluent and stupid, and love shiny things.

I'm with Anook or whatever his/her name is. Sony will price a lot of people out if PS3 is too high in price namely kids. On top of that they want us to buy their PSP too. Kids only have some much money so out of Xbox, PS3 and Rev thwe latter looks more appealing.

I hate it when Sony pulls this crap. What the Ken at Sony is trying to saying in BS talk is that it's gonna be pricy whether you like it or not, because we at Sony know how to treat a customer, by fleecing them totally.

At least MS will cut the price of 360 if it's too high. Out of the two I'll have to buy 360 because I know it's more likely to be cheaper.

The very reason I never bought a PS2 was because of the price staying so high for so long. The PS2 only recently was cut to £100. Makes you wonder how long PS3 will stay expensive. If either of them are over £300, I'll have to do a little saving in order to buy but I'll still most likely buy. I have to get a 360 this time since I never bought an Xbox.

All this talk makes me glad the Rev will be cheaper.

If neither sells as well as Sony or MS wish, they will both cut the price very quickly.

Sony aren't an evil-pricing, monopoly-holding corporation, they can only charge what the market will support. In games, MS is the same, as seen by the week six nosedive on XBox pricing in the UK.

Enough people bought the PS2 at the prices it was sold at for Sony to be able to keep the price at that point.

No amount of crying "it should be sold for 80 quid" is going to get Sony to drop the price on the PS2 if it's still selling shiploads at 105 quid.