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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Re:Heh. by incom · 2005-05-18 05:01 · Score: 0, Troll

Umm, actually it looks like MS already lost their battle with sony. Frankly nintendo has a better chance now.

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Re:Probably Still Worth It. by illumina+us · 2005-05-18 06:56 · Score: 1, Troll

The highly unstabled cell processor. :P

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