PlayStation 3 Pricing Revealed?

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday May 18, 2005 @04:15AM from the that's-a-lot-of-yen dept.

Jakhel writes "IGN has up an article on PS3 pricing information. Apparently it comes straight from Sony officials. From the article: 'According an article published in the May 17th edition of Japan's Mainichi Shimbun, the PlayStation 3 could be one of the most expensive mass-market videogame consoles ever created. Officials from Sony apparently told the newspaper that PlayStation 3s would sell in Japan for "less than 50,000 yen each." That translates to about $465 US dollars.' So I guess they will be around $464.99 in the U.S. (plus tax of course). Granted, it does come with DVD Hi Def support out of the box, but is that enough to justify it's nearly $500 pricetag?" Commentary on this development available at GamesIndustry.biz as well.

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Blame the Weak Dollar by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-18 04:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You can expect to pay maybe double what you used to for foreign produced goods. It may not be obvious just yet, but that paycheck you get is now worth perhaps half what it used to be a few years ago due to poor economic policy in the US. Now that there is a stable alternative to the dollar (the euro), expect it to drop even more. The US economy is huge, so effects take a while to propegate. you will notice it first on imported goods, then local goods, then you will hopefully still be able to pay for food. I sure hope you arn't paycheck to paycheck right now with no ability to cut back.