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UK sees a PS3 price drop
tbloxham
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According to IGN both WH Smith and play.com have dropped the price of the PS3 in the UK by £25 to £399.99. While this may be stressful news for the Sony corporation and yet more of a criticism of their absurd price point in the UK this is good news for me, and other UK people. Just 2 more of these drops and it will be down to somewhere in the low £350 range and I will be able to bring myself to buy one! And at the current rate that should happen within like 2 months.
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More price cuts please.
Lair, Motorstorm, LBP and Home, hurrah
More price cuts please.
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VAT @17.5% has a lot to answer for...
Oh. Jesus.
I thought the PS3 was doing well when we sold all our units pretty fast (in a few days) then we had to take in other stores stock because we were the only store selling.
Ashton under lyne. Or Ashtonia land of the scally, Valley of the free.
Which is ure local?
Well, it's hardly local actually, but the one I go to is Altrincham
Cool its out of my area to visit though
I was jus' asking out of intrest tbh ;-)
I'm waiting til it's £300.
Indeed ;-) Anyhow back to the subject WH smiths have this offer until thursday and Gamestation I think it lasts till the end of the Easter Holidays. But if its generate a high turnover of sales i could see it becoming a retail standard price.
Hopefully aswell Game, HMV and Comet, Currys etc will trash the bundle only idea.
Same here.
Personally i can probably see £399 with 3 games I doubt retailers will want to drop the price that dramatic any time soon
Still, there's probably going to be another price drop around christmas.
Yeah, no kidding. You would think they'd do it over here (in America land) because it's kind of struggling, but the PS3, AFAIK, did pretty well over in the UK.
Well, initially. The 82% sales drop in the week following the launch has doubtless got some Sony execs a little scared.
Well, it's all relative, innit?
I'll shut up now.
Which does kind make one wonder if they'll bother restocking it. I'm getting the impression that they're desperately trying to shift their allocation so they don't sit on the stock for months. If they have to start cutting into their own profits to stock the PS3, we might see non-specialist retailers dropping it entirely.
I have a vague recollection of reading about Sega asking retailers to take a slight loss on Dreamcast sales to help Sega out (NB: The retailers elected not to). This would be kind of like that, but born of douchebaggery instead of desperation.
I doubt they will stop selling it. I think the issue is they are sitting on huge volumes of stock due to thinking there would be massive demand. And as warehouse space eats money they want to clear it out and keep a sensible level of stock ticking over.
This will of course worry sony because they can't "ship" so many to stores if they are only ordering tiny amounts.
EDIT: didn't see second post. I suspect Sony may try that. I don't think they are in the place to do so though. It will be interesting t see how the shop floor space changes in the next year or so. I've rather enjoyed GAME realising that they shouldn't be fucking Nintendo over so much.
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"hay guys you either stock loads of a product that isn't selling or you don't stock it all saving space for stuff that does sell"
Most shops have only one real response to that. So its up to Sony to persuade them that sales are going to pick up and that the retailers can still hit the weak spot for massive profits (sorry)
I was thinking more in terms of non-specialist places. I don't see Game or Gamestation dropping the PS3, but places that depend on volume like Argos and Woolies are probably doing some swift recalculations involving warehouse/shelf space, volume and profit margins.
Even taking VAT into account the PS3 should be no more than £361. It should be even less given that it's not got hardware backwards compatability.
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Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
I see what your saying but I doubt argos would drop it. Going by it selling everything under the sun approach. But I can imagine the smaller woolies branches doing it. Still how quickly did they drop the gamecube and dreamcast?
I think dropping the prodcut is so unlikley that its not worth thinking about. Store space is interesting though. I suspect it may be like the PSP/DS which pretty much swapped places after the hype for the PSP didn't relate to sales.
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I note that the big Tesco Extra near me isn't stocking anything Sony-gaming related except PS2 games (No PS3 or PSP hardware or software), but they do sell everything else (360, DS, Wii, Xbox, GBA, etc.).
I know this is Sony, but if the PS3 doesn't pick up the pace, I can see it getting booted off shelves in the UK too. Shelf space must be a big issue there.
to be fair, they were asking for it when they decided to spend that much on a console.
To be fair, only a complete and total asshole would say something like that.