We picked it last week; Sony’s PS3 price cut was likely to be undercut by at least one big name retail vendor. Turns out they’re all at it.
As mentioned on Lifehacker, Big W technically has the lowest asking price for the 160GB PS3 at $298. Harvey Norman wants a dollar more. JB HiFi hasn’t gone down the sub-$300 route, instead offering a bundle with a choice of two games instead.
Dan Miller
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 1:39 PMWhat’s with that? Has the PS3 had bad sales or something?
Ed
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 2:11 PMI imagine that it actaully costs less than $298 for these retailers, they are just trying to get people in the door since they are “doing it so tough”. Arse wipes, it SHOULD be $298. Take the $US250, add GST and a bit of shipping and you have the price. $AU350 is a bloated rip off.
Morkai
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 2:15 PMAFAIK sony announced a price drop over the weekend at GamesCOM, so my thinking is either it’s just a normal price drop off the RRP, or it’s a price drop because there’s some new model coming, though it’s almost certainly the former.
Glenn
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 2:41 PMI hope Microsoft price drop the 360 soon after this, I plan on picking up another 1 for Gears of War 3 LAN co-op!
cayal
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 2:46 PMI believe Microsoft said they weren’t dropping the price.
Glenn
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 3:19 PMwell, I’ll have to take their word for it… it’s not like a multi-billion dollar corporation has ever changed its mind/lied to it’s consumers.
wooktree
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 2:49 PMDon’t both xbox and ps3 have a 320gb version coming out? Xbox has the Gears 3 limited edition 320gb AND the Star Wars (r2-d2) limited edition 320gb coming. Thought ps3 had one coming also? or is theirs already out?
Sam
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 8:22 PMThere’s been a 320Gb PS3 for some time now.
Dan Miller
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 3:58 PMI’ve never seen a PS3 themed system. Not in Australia anyway. I own both a 360 and PS3 and of late the PS3 is just collecting dust.
Dean Mandarean
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 12:43 PMso true!
Craig W.
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 4:57 PMUS$250 in the US and ouch 250POUNDS in the UK… http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/16/sony-drops-ps3-price-to-250-in-us-250-in-europe/
norgan
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 10:22 PMAh yeah the PS3 cannot compete with the Xbox 360 and Sony finally acknowledge it so they have dropped the price to finally be competitive.
Too little too late?
PaulJ
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 11:22 PMAll the latest figures shows the PS3 is gaining on the 360.
Joel
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 2:52 AM“Harvey Norman wants a dollar more.”
Isn’t that their motto?
Peter
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 10:01 AM+1