| Sammus McMouldenus 2007-01-30, 8:02 pm |
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Brenden D. Chase wrote:
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> Maybe, maybe not???
The PS3 costs $100-300 more than the XBOX 360 systems, regardless of
software prices, and there are plenty of cheap XBOX 360 games now that
it's a year old :-)
quote:
> http://www.ps3center.net/story-157.html
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> Only about a month after the release of the next-generation software
> for the Sony PlayStation 3 game console the system is seeing a drop in
> retail pricing of games on the console.
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> Many of the games are dropping to a reasonable price of $39.99, a $20
> price drop from the $59.99 they retailed at when the next-generation
> console launched on November 17th in North America .
>
> Target, a retailer, is advertising game software for the Sony
> PlayStation 3 at $39.99. The games include Electronic Art's Need for
> Speed Carbon, Activision's Marvel Ultimate Alliance, as well as Tony
> Hawk's Project 8.
>
> All of these next-generation games will retail for $39.99.
>
> The discount comes very early after the PlayStation 3 released in the
> country which comes to a surprise. Sony has reported thus far that
> they have sold 200,000 units in November in the The drop in price
> likely represents poor sales among the PlayStation 3 software since
> with the Microsoft Xbox 360 it was months before any next-generation
> game dropped to $39.99 from the launch window.
>
> This could also be seen as a desperate attempt for the software
> companies to try and garner sales and compete with lower-priced
> Nintendo who has the Wii retailing at half the price of the PlayStation
> 3 with software retailing for $29.99 on some games.
>
> We will see if this tactic allows the game publishers to recover some
> lost money on the PS3 software and gain some more sales and higher
> attach rates per console sold around the world.
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