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PS3 Enjoys Retail-Wide Sales Spike After Price Cut
donniebaseball23 writes "Sony, after nearly two years on standing firm on PS3's price, dropped the console to $249, and it's been having an immediate impact. GameStop has already noted a 'significant' increase in PS3 sales, while big box retailer Target confirmed an 'immediate lift' in sales and recommended PS3 as a 'great option' for its customers. Not only that, but leading e-tailer Amazon saw PS3 sales explode by 400% in the days after the price cut. All told, in the months ahead, analysts are expecting Sony to see as much as a 30% sales bump for PS3 this holiday season."
You do realize you can get PSN without giving them your credit card info since it is free, right? Heck, even if you want to buy something you don't have to give them your CC info, just need to buy PSN cards at the store.
For both ya'll... PS3 are great. I've had one for years, has lasted this whole time, and is playing the new Bad Lieutenant right now on netflix. If you have a media server on your home network, you can access it with the PS3. You can also put in yoru own HDD and not break the warranty. Sony tells you exactly how. That way you can do all kinds of media storing, etc.
PS3 is great. Blu Ray, HD, 3d gaming and movies, media playing, open platform for USB hardware and bluetooth hardware. I know people on slashdot hate sony and for their reasons, and i understand them. I've thought about whether i would buy the next generation... who knows.. but I do appreciate what I have. Great gear.
Bottom of the line dual DIY kit...$199, or you can get a quad refurb for $370 and of course MR PC does things that PS3 simply can't, like actual work, drag and drop hardware transcoding to most of the popular formats, rip those BDs and DVDs and convert them into a nice .MKV or H.264 .avi and store them on the 1Tb of space so your media is at your fingertips without needing stupid discs, play real FPS and MMOs instead of the auto aiming crap, etc.
Hey if a PS3 floats your boat? Do what you want with your money, I hear there are guys that think Halo is actually innovative as well. If you think gear 3 generations behind the curve is worth $250? Hey I'm happy for you. But when you can get an HD4850 for $60 that GPU in the PS3 don't look that impressive and lets be honest folks the PS3 ain't never had a really great game library and nearly all the big titles are either for both or for x360.
Personally I hope they make it, I'm a big believer in competition. But Sony has bled through cash this generation while MSFT had enough cash in the bank it frankly didn't matter if they made a profit or not, but considering how many X360s are out there I'm sure they cleaned up.
The question is are they gonna have enough money to make the PS4. It looks like IBM isn't gonna do anything else with the cell, so they are probably gonna have to jump arches AGAIN which will probably tick off developers that took ages to get the hang of the funky PS3 layout. With Nintendo going to be first out the gate I wouldn't be surprised if MSFT isn't far behind and I don't know if they are gonna be able to string along the PS3 like they did the PS2, it simply doesn't have the back catalog the latter did. And Blu Ray is pretty much a bomb, Netflix and Redbox has pretty much killed BD as for the masses streaming and DVD is "good enough".
I wish them luck I truly do but I bet the next couple of years are gonna be ugly for Sony as they try to come up with the truly insane money it costs to crank out a new console.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.