First PS3 bundle for UK!

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18-06-2006, 06:50 PM
HUGECOOL

First PS3 bundle for UK!

The first PS3 bundle has been posted on Play.com for the low low price of...

£549.99, which is over $1,000. :o

The package includes...

- (1X) PS3 60 GB Model
- (3X) Video Games (Formula One 06/Warhawk/Singstar) [Titles may change]

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In other news...

A major online retailer from France has priced the Wii at 249 Euros (approx $315 USD) although no official announcement has yet been made from Nintendo. It seems like they are taking orders at this price unfortunately what is odd about the information they have on the Wii is that it is from ‘Sony Computer’, so it would be in best interest not to pay attention to it.

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and....

Need for Speed: Carbon has been confirmed for the Nintendo Wii

Also, the Best Buy website has posted Wii games for $50 and PS3 games for $70.
18-06-2006, 06:53 PM
jordzit

£550 for a console and 3 games? Sorry but I don't care how good it's supposed to be, that's extorshonate (sp).
18-06-2006, 07:21 PM
JonJon

I thought £425 was bad.... I'm sure they've inflated that price. Sony must be selling it for less than that.
18-06-2006, 07:48 PM
Sony.Com

Guys one problem...
That isnt a set price.
Sony hasn't releced a price yet so that is just a ball park figure.
18-06-2006, 07:49 PM
OmgitsAmanda

Wow, £549.99 for a games console and 3 games.. I know I sure as hell wont be buying a PS3 until the prices go down.
18-06-2006, 08:09 PM
Billay

thats approx. $1018.13
18-06-2006, 08:15 PM
Infrontation

Just buy a Xbox 360 Premium with 3 Games for around £400
18-06-2006, 08:39 PM
Bicept

Quote:

Originally Posted by Infrontation

Just buy a Xbox 360 Premium with 3 Games for around £400

they might not want a dam xbox 360 :@
18-06-2006, 08:42 PM
Wayne

That is ridiculous. Like a kid is gonna be able to afford that..
18-06-2006, 08:52 PM
Bear-Max

Well Sony confirmed the price to be £425. If games were RRP £49.99 like the Xbox 360, then the bundle saves you £25.

I saw this on Gamespot earlier, and the article is completely stupid. It goes way over the top about how much that is in USD. It's a fact that us Britons pay more for things, so we're more used to it. Everyone is like "OMG THAT'S OVER $1000 USD" but the fact of the matter is that we don't get paid in USD, we get paid in GBP. Regardless of what the exchange rate is, prices are relative to the country you're looking at.

Still, it's bloody expensive.
18-06-2006, 08:56 PM
Place:P

I doubt I will be getting one then -_-
18-06-2006, 09:04 PM
Billay

this thread is creating steam.
18-06-2006, 10:48 PM
JonJon

I will in like 10 years when they're £50 :P
18-06-2006, 11:31 PM
Sony.Com

Id pay it for sure:)
18-06-2006, 11:54 PM
Moose

I'm just going to buy a Wii, sorry but PS3?... :l

I'll be satisfied with SMBB and Resident Evil Wii.
19-06-2006, 12:06 AM
Scouse

Oh cool, ill buy 2 one for upstairs and one for down :rolleyes:
19-06-2006, 01:18 AM
Sony.Com

Lol.
Intresting.

And when did you win the lottery to buy that kind of hardwear?
19-06-2006, 01:36 AM
HUGECOOL

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnZ

Lol.
Intresting.

And when did you win the lottery to buy that kind of hardwear?

He was being sarcastic. Notice he put the rolley-eyed-smiley in the end of the sentence.

ANYWAY. xP

The PS3's price is not consumer priced friendly, but it's not ridiculously expensive either. Many electronic shops and outlets like to bundle their hardware and sell it at very high prices. Some shops are known to sell their whole inventories on eBay to gain a better profit, and therefore, having all the hardware at the store 'sell out' in 2 hours and causing a shortage of that hardware. This is one of the reasons there was a shortage on 360s.

Also, it's normal for the pricing of things i nthe UK be a little higher than the US because of taxes and such. Cost of living there also caries form the US, which is cheaper (in the US).
19-06-2006, 08:28 AM
Bear-Max

Without being too generalising, Americans get paid less. It costs Americans less to live.

Of course we have to pay more.

Did nobody see it coming? I mean... We pay more for everything. If I'm correct I think us Brits pay 4 or 5 times more for our petrol.
19-06-2006, 11:50 AM
Billay

wouldn't it just be so cool if Sony released the official price 1 week before release. Saying it's only $200 and the games are gonna be $60. That would blow the market away.
19-06-2006, 02:19 PM
.:Subarusti:.

is that still at a loss, i dont care about PS3, alll i wanna know is, Wii!!
19-06-2006, 08:03 PM
Bear-Max

Quote:

Originally Posted by Billay

wouldn't it just be so cool if Sony released the official price 1 week before release. Saying it's only $200 and the games are gonna be $60. That would blow the market away.

$599, 599 Euros, and £425 are the official prices (for the higher tier).

The lower tier console is $499 and 499 Euros, but apparently is not going to be released in the UK now.
19-06-2006, 09:21 PM
Billay

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bear-Max

$599, 599 Euros, and £425 are the official prices (for the higher tier).

The lower tier console is $499 and 499 Euros, but apparently is not going to be released in the UK now.

whaaa. wouldnt the higher tier be more expensive than the lower tier. not PS3-wise, vocabulary-wise. like the higher it is the better it is unless that was just a typo.
19-06-2006, 10:57 PM
Bear-Max

Quote:

Originally Posted by Billay

whaaa. wouldnt the higher tier be more expensive than the lower tier. not PS3-wise, vocabulary-wise. like the higher it is the better it is unless that was just a typo.

I don't understand.

I wrote:
Higher tier - $599, 599 euros, £425.
Lower tier - $499, 499 euros, no UK release confirmed.

The higher tier is more expensive than the lower tier o.0
20-06-2006, 05:15 AM
JoeyK.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Infrontation

Just buy a Xbox 360 Premium with 3 Games for around £400

What a waste of money.
20-06-2006, 05:26 AM
RLY-CRAIG?

Woah expensiveness
20-06-2006, 10:34 AM
Bear-Max

Quote:

Originally Posted by JoeyK.

What a waste of money.

Oh, the Sony fanboyism! :$
20-06-2006, 06:52 PM
iluvben

Expensive but I will get it anyway x]
20-06-2006, 10:18 PM
Billay

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bear-Max

I don't understand.

I wrote:
Higher tier - $599, 599 euros, £425.
Lower tier - $499, 499 euros, no UK release confirmed.

The higher tier is more expensive than the lower tier o.0

soz i read it wrong 0.o
21-06-2006, 12:42 AM
Sony.Com

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bear-Max

Without being too generalising, Americans get paid less. It costs Americans less to live.

Of course we have to pay more.

Did nobody see it coming? I mean... We pay more for everything. If I'm correct I think us Brits pay 4 or 5 times more for our petrol.

Actualy atm its almost exactly 3 times more.

And also it may cost you guys more to live BUT we have to pay for collage and university insted of the gov. helping us out.

And also as you posted before its relitive. What you get paied suits you guys and what people in the states gets paied is enough to live there.
21-06-2006, 03:34 PM
Oleh

i get the price of an xbox 360 premium pack [Got already] + for christmas but woah thats saying someithing