Sony Has "No Plans" for 80 Gig PS3 in US

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon May 21, 2007 10:14 PM EDT

Article Source: next-gen.biz

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As you may have expected, Sony has told Next-Gen that there are currently no plans to bring South Korea's recently announced 80GB PlayStation 3 configuration to North America.

It's worth saying that this is a standard corporate line that doesn't mean much for the future, but you can be mostly assured that your PS3 won't be deemed lame within the next month or so.

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Russ R.

Sony has "No plans" to release a competent statement regarding the PS3.

Don't feed us that "no plans" and don't not offer an 80 gig in the US and UK.

Here's what Sony needs to do, just say "no comment" and then give us the 80gig for $600 and drop the price on the 60gig model.

They are going to need to drop the price sooner rather than later and this way they will have a reasonable excuse to do so.

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#1 - Tue May 22, 2007 11:30 AM EDT

{"commentId":850023,"authorDomain":"ShamallRamos"}

Shamall Ramos

I agree with what you said. I'm no analyst or corporate employee but if i was I would try to push for a price tag of $500 or $450. I don't know the cost of manufacturing a PS3 and that's probably why they haven't done that. But if the price drops to $500 it would close the gap of sales to the Wii significantly. Now if Sony would take either 10-30 million dollar loss if it cuts the price to $450 but people would rush stores to buy a PS3 all that technology for only $450, there are camcorders and TVs that cost more than $450-600 and people buy them without complaint. 1 thing they should complain about are the cost of games itself and not the system, PC fans buy upgradable parts continuously, for hundreds to thousands of dollars in 1 PC. Compare PCs TVs Cameras Camcorders and Mp3 players, Video game systems have a longer life than most of those products.

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#1.1 - Mon Jul 9, 2007 9:10 AM EDT

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STEVE WATTS

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