gamespot.com — As of Tuesday July 10th the 60GB PlayStation 3 will be dropped in price down to $499.99. In addition to this in August Sony will be introducing the 80GB SKU currently available in South Korea to US shores. The console will be priced at $599.99 and will come bundled with a copy of Motorstorm.
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owdenbowdenJul 9, 2007
I tell you what - if they throw in a new PSP and a few games I still will not pick up the Piece s**t 3
smiley2billionJul 9, 2007
So the PS3 doesn't care what you throw at it? I'm not bashing or anything, I've got a 360 and its a pain to try and stream anything other than WMV (like you said). Will the PS3 playback Xvid or mkv or even WMVHD? If it can stream that then I'm in the market for a new console.
vulnoxJul 9, 2007
This is cool since you can get the PS3, an extra wireless controller, and 5 Blu-ray movies for $499....But... I just bought my 360 Elite which still has a bigger hard drive, up converts all my DVD's, and I already own a few HD-DVD/DVD combo disks that I got for dirt cheap, and they are both movies I can't get in Blu-ray. Also, Catan and Caracassone own my soul at the moment, Xbox Live Arcade is one of the best reasons to get the system for sure.But PS3's Home seems sweet, man I just need someone to hand me a few grand so I can just run it all!It does seem stupid in this world of 120GB XBox 360's to only do a 20GB jump for an extra $100, especially when that $100 would buy me a lot of HD movies from XBox Live that fit nicely on that 120GB drive. Sony should have waited and put a 160 or even blew us away with a 200 gig when those become more available.
rewquioJul 9, 2007
There were articles posted on digg when the PS3 was released stating the markup Sony was allowing retailers to make. It was around $40 or so for the 60GB version which is reasonable for a high end console, but only $12 for the 20GB version, which is ridiculously low. It wasn't even worth it to stores to stock them, not to mention Sony only made 20% of the 20GB. Stores obviously were pushing the high end one to make more profit and they eventually stopped ordering the low end one altogether. OK, so there are some cases were consumers didn't want the lower end one (who ever wants the lower end one) but the features really aren't worth $100 more, at least not to me.I thought even the 20GB model was too much at $500, but if I was going to buy one, I'd get that one. You can use the extra $100 you save to upgrade the hard drive yourself (the instructions are in the manual) and end up with a 120 or larger HD. I'll admit that WiFi is something you can't upgrade, but if you need it, the $600 version is your only option. Most people go with wired for the better latency performance for online gaming.
ajajadudeJul 9, 2007
I can't ever see anyone getting a PS3 (new or used) for $200...unless it was stolen or the seller was desperate for cash.
reyvehnJul 10, 2007
it DOES use a standard 2.5" SATA HDD used in laptops, as alx242 said... You don't actually have to "hack" the system to install another drive. Sony isn't the dick that Microsoft is because everything you get for the xbox is proprietary and HAS to say "XBOX360" on it. PS3 is very flexible, in that it allows you to install other operating systems on it without voiding the warranty (Linux and/or Windows).
barktwiggsJul 13, 2007
Good call!<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/playstation_3/BREAKING_No_more_60_Gig_PS3_s_after_JULY">http://digg.com/playstation_3/BREAKING_No_more_60_Gig_PS3_s_after_JULY</a>