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Aussies to get super special PS3 Value pack.
Dublo7
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According to Gamespot, in August, for the same price of the PS3 at the moment, you'll be able to get a PS3 along with Motorstorm and Resistance and an extra six axis controller.
This seems like a pretty decent deal to me.
~250 dollars of free stuff? Not bad. I might try to swing one for my 21st, later on in the year.
However, why are Sony planning to do this all of the sudden? Has the Australian reception to PS3 relatively poor? From what I know, practically no stores in Australia sold out of PS3s during launch.
What about you other Aussies here? Of course we're the ones getting screwed over, thanks to exchange rates. Would this deal swing you in finally buying a PS3?
PS3 value pack dated for Australia
PS3 value pack to land in Australia on August 2; new PSP slated for September.
By James Kozanecki, GameSpot AU Posted Jul 19, 2007 7:55 pm PT
Sony Computer Entertainment Australia has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 value pack will be coming to Australia on August 2 for A$999 ($879). The announcement came at a PlayStation Australia media event held in Sydney last night.
The starter pack contains a 60GB PlayStation 3 console, two Sixaxis controllers, Resistance: Fall of Man, and MotorStorm--both of which have sold over a million units globally. No announcement about whether the 80GB PlayStation 3 will make it to Australia was made.
The PS3 value pack is being released only in Sony's PAL territories, with US consumers instead getting a price drop on the existing 60GB PS3s to $499. US consumers will also soon be able to purchase the 80GB model--which comes bundled with MotorStorm--for $599.
Managing director of Sony Computer Entertainment Australia and New Zealand Michael Ephraim also confirmed that the redesigned PlayStation Portable--model number PSP-2000--will be coming down under in early September. It will be available in Piano Black and Ceramic White. When asked whether the Star Wars: Battlefront PSP pack would reach our shores, he responded with, "[We are] still considering it."
This seems like a pretty decent deal to me.
~250 dollars of free stuff? Not bad. I might try to swing one for my 21st, later on in the year.
However, why are Sony planning to do this all of the sudden? Has the Australian reception to PS3 relatively poor? From what I know, practically no stores in Australia sold out of PS3s during launch.
What about you other Aussies here? Of course we're the ones getting screwed over, thanks to exchange rates. Would this deal swing you in finally buying a PS3?
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The American dollar, at the moment, is worth shit all. There's really no excuse for the huge mark up we get.
No. Not when you have (AU) $600-$700 360 premium bundles that come with 2-3 games and a year of live.
Actually even without the competition from the 360.. No. Hell no. I don't think there is a word to describe how much I wouldn't buy one.
Nope, they're doing it throughout all of SCEE's territories. Instead of dropping the price and introducing a new 80GB SKU (with Motorstorm packed in) like SCEA did, SCEE decided to release that package.
Also, I'm not an Aussie but I'll mention my plan anyway. I'll buy a PS3 when two of this holidays AAA games are out (the AAA games in question being Warhawk, R&C, Uncharted, Assassin's Creed and Heavenly Sword). If they haven't dropped the price by then, I'll pick this bundle up. Thanks to a pretty cheap price I've already got Rainbow Six Vegas.
Btw, it should be mentioned that we're going to get the new PSP before Japan and maybe even the US. I guess it's to make up for the PS3 delay.
I think that's true of anybody.
Hell yeah. I can't imagine myself buying that. It's ridiculous.
I'm not totally disagreeing with you, I'm just curious.
The same thing but with any two games (rather than pick from a list) is £469.99 (US$964).
The value pack RRP is £425 (US$871), but there's no way retailers will actually sell it at that price, since most of them have been cutting the price as low as they can and bundling stuff just to try and shift them faster.
EDIT: Also, the reaction to the value pack has been at best subdued, at worst hostile. Witness:
Why didn't Sony cut the price of the PS3 in the UK? (The Guardian)
Sony rules out UK price cut for PlayStation 3 (The Times)
Sony rules out PS3 price cut in Europe (The Telegraph)
This is also what you get for being descendants of criminals.
If only we were currently criminals then things would be nice and cheap, like they are for you.
*runs*
Abso-fucking-lutely. I'd rather have $250 in cash than in games I'm not interested in playing. Plus, keep in mind that the PS3 isn't selling in PAL territories, so it's not like the games are really worth anything to Sony - they're excess stock. I wouldn't be surprised if getting rid of them is actually beneficial, given how much warehouse and shelf-space it'll free up for games coming out now and later this year.
Hahaha.
Hahaha!
Seriously, I would rather a price drop.
Although I'd rather a 360.
But Mass Effect and Assassins' Creed on the one, much cheaper console? Yes, please.
Yeah, I don't think there would be nearly as much outcry over the return to the $600 price tag in the US if this is what you got in the new package. 1 good game and a slightly bigger hard drive for $100? Yuck. Throw in an additional good game and an extra controller though and it sounds like a decent value for the extra money.
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I paid a thousand for my DS. I won't say a thousand of what.
Also, Sony sells neutered PS3s in the PAL territory. No emotion engine (chip?). Don't forget.
Meaning: I'll play Haze once it comes to the PC, tyvm.
Um. That's starting in the US, too, as soon as the $499 60GB fire sale is over.
Hehe.
Aha, I found the article I had in mind while posting.
link:
http://play.tm/story/11368
The vast majority of people who see it think that you require one of these TVs to get the most out of the console. Which means you've got two groups then, the people who'll go out and buy that $2k+ TV to play it on or those who'll get one to replace their current TV which right now is generally every 5-10 years maybe.
And yes, as was mentioned earlier, $1000 is an insane cost to expect people to pay for a gaming machine. Like a giant fucking hump. These same magazines have the Wii in there for $400 and the XBox for $5-600.
Bundles probably aren't going to help till the price drops a bit here. I mean they're selling, but no where near what they'd be doing if there was a $100-200 AU price drop.
Sony claimed it was outselling the other consoles recently, but that's only true if you just look at Gfk's "shipped" figures for the PS3's launch period.
Hey, it's expensive to ferry those shipments through shark-infested waters. Provisions for the long, arduous journey add to the cost. And then transportation costs go up because the Land Rovers used to move them along those rugged washboard roads in the outback can hold at most a dozen units each.
Also, several gears had to be added to correct the optical drive's tendency to spin in the opposite direction, and the blue laser turns red beneath the equator, so they have to use all kinds of prisms to contort the optical properties of the beam and restore its color. If anything, the Australian PS3 is a triumph against the forces of nature. :P
Gaming PR people still use the "tyrrany of distance" excuse to explain the difference in price. That might have worked in the middle ages to explain the price of rare spices, but it doesn't fly these days.
A friend of mine works in a big name discounter in the city. They had more than 100 PS3's sitting at the back of the store, waiting to be boughted. No one wanted a bar of it.
They're now doing some 'rent-try-buy' scheme where you can get a PS3 FOR JUST $9.95 A WEEK! or something. They're so desperate to shift units that they're going to the hassle of putting people on pay-as-you-go contracts just to get them out of the shop.
Don't we have a pretty terrible HD-TV ratio or something? (Unless that's changed in recent times and people are buying into them more)
And when you actually see the cost of HDTVs of anything larger than my computer monitor the prces become absurd. Personally I'm not jumping at the chance to buy a $4-6k tv.
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This is totally true. It's a combination of fuckhead manufacturers, idiot/greedy salesmen and misleading advertising. I saw a widescreen LG CRT for $899 that had BUILT IN HD TUNER emblazoned all over the marketing materials for it, including all the signs 'The Good Guys' made up in store. I asked the guy if it was a HD set, and he said no. I asked him why it had a built in HD tuner, he shrugged.
Then you get cheap old standard definition plasmas being marketed as HIGH DEFINITION READY, and general confusion about resolutions and stuff. It's a minefield for a customer. I read up about this stuff for months before I felt comfortable about actually buying in to the whole HD thing. Glad I did, but if I'd just gone out for the best price I'm pretty sure I would have been shafted by a dick chasing a good bonus.
Man, what? You can get a decent Samsung/Sony 40" LCD for around $2500. It won't have 1080p, but who the fuck needs that anyway?
But you're absolutely right about the cloud of misinformation and ignorance that surrounds HDTVs over here. I consider myself a pretty tech-savvy guy, and I had to do a couple days research before I could even start thinking about buying a set.
See, now if they offered this for 360s you could get one till you were satisfied it wasn't a dud one.
One of these days I'll catch one of you bastards going "ZOMG PCS ARE SO EXPENSIVE THAT IS WHY I BUY A CONSOLE" in a different thread and that day, that day heads will roll. Roll.
I think they're still talking in AussieFunBucks.
Here in the USA, you can get 40"+ 1080p tvs for well under $2000.
In the Ultimate Electronics catalog I'm looking at right now, a 50" 1080p Sony Wega SXRD tv is $1800, a 46" Samsung DLP HDTV is $1300, LG 42" LCD HDTVs are $1600, and even Panasonic 42 " plasma screens are $1700.
And Ultimate Electronics is expensive. Best Buy and Wal-Mart beat the piss out of those prices (like 20%-50%) if you want to go with brands that aren't Sony, Samsung, or Pioneer.