Rumor: Sony considering £300 price point for next-gen PlayStation
Or a $300 or below price point in North America
Even England's The Times is delving into breaking console news from unverified sources these days. Come on, industry, can't you at least leak your information to the gaming media anymore? Anyways, the new rumor is that Sony is considering a £300 price point for their next-gen PlayStation. Considering prices in the UK are either equal to or greater than prices in North America, we could be seeing a $300 or lower price for the console.
According to The Times, a source leaked to them several "internal documents" which referenced the price, which comes considerably lower than the PlayStation 3's $500-$600 range of SKUs. Of course, I'll go out of my way again to reiterate these are rumors of the most speculative degree. Not only does The Times point out that Sony is only "considering" this price, but it's rather unlikely that Sony will announce the price at all for months -- even if they do reveal their console this Wednesday.
That said, $300 seems like the sweet spot for console pricing right now. Such a price would put the next PlayStation in favorable position going up against a likely similarly priced next-gen Xbox this holiday season. Of course, if either console could drop it down to $250 or even $200... then we might have a console war on our hands. Yeehaw, an old fashioned console war!
Source: The Times
Section: Console Games
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$200? Pffftbwahahahahahaha xD
Just make sure to exclude the proprietary $100 hdd's required to install games and presto!
Knowing Sony this is still £800 - £1000 worth of tech that will be sold for £300 just like PS3 was £1000+ worth of tech sold for £425, the difference is this time the costs will be on the important things like the GDDR5 RAM and the GPU, not some premium priced optical drive that wasn't all that great outside of movies.
The Wii U is going for $350.
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