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PS4 Launch Date: November 15th
Today Sony announced the official release dates of the PlayStation 4 console: November 15 in North America and November 29 in Europe. From the article:
"The system will be available for $399/€399/£349 in 32 countries by the end of the year, the company said. The date comes just days before the Black Friday post-Thanksgiving sales, but given the strong pre-order interest for the system already, the PS4 might be hard to find on store shelves in the days after it drops. Sony revealed that one million PS4 systems have already been pre-ordered worldwide. The company notably did not mention a release date or price point for the system's launch in its native Japan."
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Why?!?!?!
It's actually 1 EUR == 1.3425 USD! 1 GBP == 0.638 USD! WTF!!!!!
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yep, and when the PS3 came out they all went back to the store while the wii sold out to real people
Wow, based on current exchange rates ... the Europeans are getting screwed on that deal. (Assuming, of course, that Slashdot was capable of showing the euro and pound symbols, that is)
It looks like in real currency, they'll pay more for this. Is that typical?
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I wouldn't be so sure. Ask people how that worked out with the WiiU. I'm sure a few made money but I don't think people will have any issues finding PS4s or XBox Ones this holiday season.
Given Sony's habit of disabling features, having the playstation network crash for days on end, and adding copy protection as a mandatory software upgrade, is anyone really interested in their next gen gaming system?
Even forgiving all of the dumb-ass scams Sony has pulled over the years that have alienated me as a customer, the one thing that keeps reminding me why I hate them so much is the forced updates that I have to endure almost every single time I turn on my PS3. I only use the thing a couple of times a month (for movies, usually), and it seems like almost every time I turn it on I need to apply some update, and if I refuse the machine refuses to let me do whatever it is I wanted to do. Why??? Because of this, almost every movie I want to watch on the thing becomes 15-30 minutes of dicking around with updates, rebooting, etc, followed by 90 or 120 minutes of movie. WTF. I've never seen any other product that was so antagonistic towards its user. It's a constant reminder that Sony doesn't give a shit about me and would gladly throw me under a bus if it meant they could make another dollar off me. I'm sure other companies think the same way, but at least most of them have the decency of not being so blindingly obvious about it. Up yours Sony, you can keep your PS4.
Well don't buy it day-0. It's not like there will be a huge range of titles for it anyway. Same for the XBox One. If they sell well I'm sure Sony / Microsoft will make more of them.
No one bothered with the WiiU because console makers artificially make sure all stores are out at Christmas to generate grassroots buzz on how they can't keep them on the shelves etc.
However, both Microsoft and Sony are acting different this time with very low cost and partially commoditized componets that make profit rather than a loss on each sold so who knows maybe this year it wil be different.
I would not doubt an illegal agreement somewhere which is good for the industry actually as MS only made money for the last 2 years of the whole XBoxes lifetime and I am sure Sony barely has broken even after what the crap they tried to pull with expensive proprietary ram and cpus.
Personally I hate fucking Sony still and do not want to do business with them! The drm rootkit and what they did with destroying speakers of MP3 listeners by booby trapping mp3s and others makes me root for Microsoft this time around. At least Microsoft is trying to make it more open and friendly to developers and no BAH $10 million up front fees or we wont publish YOUR GAME!! Crap that Sony pulls that makes only the big boys elgible. Ms did this a little too with the 360.
Hell, I have bills to pay and not enough time and money for a console so what the hell cares anyway. PC for life!
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The upcoming consoles, PS4 and XB1, seem quite exciting otherwise, but I think they totally failed at the enclosure design. Both of them have an ugly 80s VCR look...
No usually. The law says 2 years. (Batteries 6 months)
I used to work at a hardware company that sold extended warranties when the time went from one year to two years. The extended warranties were a nice extra income for the company. When the change to two years came, they just calculated how much less money they would make and upped the prices a little bit and made the same amount of profit in the end.
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Normally consoles are not as bad as PC when it comes to DRM, since the expectation is you won't be able to run it without the physical media. With the PC though that's not been the case for quite a while now, so they tack on game breaking DRM to try and make sure people cannot play the game.
Google tells me that with the current exchange rate, the PS4 should sell for 414.44 Canadian dollars. You can bet your ass that it won't be as low as that, I'm expecting at least 429 or even 449. And every Canadian pays a sales tax which varies from 5 to 15% depending on the province.
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Unless another game I haven't heard about yet shows up and convinces me I have to play it, I'll probably get it when Final Fantasy XV comes out, which at the moment isn't more specific than "sometime in 2014".
Actually 2 years is the EU minimum, but individual states may grant you more.
For example in the UK the Sale of Goods Act states that products must last a "reasonable length of time". For a laptop computer that is generally five or six years, for a TV say ten years, a car maybe 20 years or at least 200k miles. If it fails before then the vendor (not the manufacturer, the place you bought it from) has to either replace it, fix it or give you a refund. If the product is beyond the two year minimum period the vendor can offer a partial refund based on the amount of use you have had out of it, so a laptop that dies after three years might be due a 60% refund (50% expected lifespan, plus costs the buyer incurred like having to recover data and get it transferred to a new machine).
The key thing to remember is that the law states that the vendor must do all this in a reasonable amount of time. Often they will fob you off by saying that you should contact the manufacturer, but that is their responsibility. Sometimes they will say things like "it was a cheap laptop, you can't expect it to last that long", but you most certainly can. Sometimes they will take a very long time to resolve the issue, but in most cases anything over 28 days will be considered too long by a court and they should refund/replace immediately.
When you adjust for tax products are not significantly more expensive in Europe. Don't believe the hype.
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You could quickly check Futureshop, or Bestbuy's web sites and find out that it is $399.99, or after tax in BC $447.99. Different provinces will vary in taxes.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
When will the games that make it worth owning launch?
I can't remember a single launch title in the past two generations that made me want to buy the system when it came out. Launch titles are always "me too" games, ports, and sequels that can be churned out quickly with a handful of "in house" quirky games as exceptions, especially nowadays since video game budgets have gotten out of control. I haven't seen an awesome launch title since the 16-bit generation (e.g. Super Mario World).
Usually the good games come over the year after.
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people in the UK get the console 2 weeks later and have to pay £100 more because that's the exchange rate from £-$
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