PS3 will cost alot more then Xbox 360, will you still buy one?

ever since PS3 was officially announced Sony has been behind closed doors trying desperately to scrap whatever they can. At E3 last year, the one prototype of Sony's Playstation 3 was a 3,000 dollar individual unit. The biggest prices were due to the prototype blue ray dvd which now costs 1,800 alone (less in mass quantities, but not less than 1,00 each), the $200 radio board and most of all, a state of the art still prototype cell processor costing about 3,000 dollars on its own. I.E. PS3 will not be cheap despite the rumors that it will cost $400 dollars. Given that, Sony can get price breaks, so you won't end up skipping college to pay for your PS3. However, the price tag WILL be over $500 dollars if not that price exactly. Combined with an increased price for videogames ($66 with tax), you will be getting into the $600 range just for the console and one game. Bundled with 2 games and a controller, the price jacks up to $750 and up. I am a fanboy, but all that aside, Xbox 360 is very pricey. Whenever a console bundle gets up to $2000 dollars with under ten games, then you know something is expensive in a big way. That being said, $400 dollars for a premium is still at a minimum $100 less then the basic PS3 model stripped down to the core. WIll super prices effect PS3 sales?

high prcies werent the problem with the xbox 360. Ps3 will always have its core audience that will buy its super console no matter how much overtime they must endure to get one. But the question is all about the casual gamers who want a console for $300 bucks and a copy of the newest madden every year, nothing more. PS2 was first and it was cheaper then the xbox. I think casual gamers who just wanna play games for fun and only once in a while will be more attracted to what doesnt brake their bank, not what would put them in bankruptcy. Will casual gamers abandon the Sony empire? you decide...

lol forget arm and a leg, its more like liver and a lung.Arch-Renegade04

It's probably going to be $100 more then the Premium...:|

That's not much more.

However, the price tag WILL be over $500 dollars if not that price exactly. E2ESQUARE

[QUOTE="E2ESQUARE"]However, the price tag WILL be over $500 dollars if not that price exactly. Flugigo

PS3 prototype = 3k

PS3 mass production = $850 approx unless sony can find something else to chop off of the PS3

IE, it wont be 400 bucks, you are just living in a dream if you think that, get real. 500 bucks minimum, no less

[QUOTE="Flugigo"][QUOTE="E2ESQUARE"]However, the price tag WILL be over $500 dollars if not that price exactly. E2ESQUARE

PS3 prototype = 3k

PS3 mass production = $850 approx unless sony can find something else to chop off of the PS3

IE, it wont be 400 bucks, you are just living in a dream if you think that, get real. 500 bucks minimum, no less

There was no price tag on the PlayStation 3 prototype; it's not like you could buy one on the E3 floor.

Remember when people were speculating about the PSP price? Look how that turned out. Sony would be suicidal to place it near $500.Chang3

With Development Costs of the PS3 going up near 7 million just to start and the loss that they're taking on just manufacturing the system, i don't think that $500 is out of the question. Perhaps they've been doing Recon and looking to see what people would pay for the PS3. Most cows on here have said up near $600 to start. I don't think that $500 is out of the question. Granted, it might go down in price quicker than normal.

Lets see you get Next Gen Blue-Ray (needed soon to play HD movies coming out in 2007/8) and Online conecivity with a Cell processer made to show off visuals, and quick Internet exploring!

SO Blue-Ray= $500 after 2 years

PC on TV capibilities= $500

and don't forget Great Gaming machine = $400

ALL for aroud $500 that is what I call a bargin

I will probably buy one when the price drops.  I get the consoles with the good games after they are mass produced!  I can play great games for a least the next year with the current-gen consoles.  The 360 will drop when PS3 or Revolution comes out.  After the initial mass purchase of PS3s, they will have to lower the price to hit the people who can't afford the $500-$700 console on day one.

ever since PS3 was officially announced Sony has been behind closed doors trying desperately to scrap whatever they can. At E3 last year, the one prototype of Sony's Playstation 3 was a 3,000 dollar individual unit. The biggest prices were due to the prototype blue ray dvd which now costs 1,800 alone (less in mass quantities, but not less than 1,00 each), the $200 radio board and most of all, a state of the art still prototype cell processor costing about 3,000 dollars on its own. I.E. PS3 will not be cheap despite the rumors that it will cost $400 dollars. Given that, Sony can get price breaks, so you won't end up skipping college to pay for your PS3. However, the price tag WILL be over $500 dollars if not that price exactly. Combined with an increased price for videogames ($66 with tax), you will be getting into the $600 range just for the console and one game. Bundled with 2 games and a controller, the price jacks up to $750 and up. I am a fanboy, but all that aside, Xbox 360 is very pricey. Whenever a console bundle gets up to $2000 dollars with under ten games, then you know something is expensive in a big way. That being said, $400 dollars for a premium is still at a minimum $100 less then the basic PS3 model stripped down to the core. WIll super prices effect PS3 sales?

high prcies werent the problem with the xbox 360. Ps3 will always have its core audience that will buy its super console no matter how much overtime they must endure to get one. But the question is all about the casual gamers who want a console for $300 bucks and a copy of the newest madden every year, nothing more. PS2 was first and it was cheaper then the xbox. I think casual gamers who just wanna play games for fun and only once in a while will be more attracted to what doesnt brake their bank, not what would put them in bankruptcy. Will casual gamers abandon the Sony empire? you decide...

E2ESQUARE

You are a fool, nobody knew the price of blu-ray up until CES and the $1,800 blu-ray player is a Pioneer Elte model, Pioneer always has higher prices than it's competitors, and they also include more in their products which kinda justifies the price. The Samsung blu-ray player is $1,000 (http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7195.cfm). the PS3 will have a blu-ray drive, it will not be as fully featured as a full on blu-ray player, just like the PS2 dvd drive isn't as featured as a full on dvd player. This will reduce the price of the PS3 to a more reasonable amount, and you have to keep in mind given what the blu-ray drive costs they will sell it at a loss (for even less after they stripe it down). It will probably only do the basic things fastforward, pause, rewind, slow etc. When the first DVD players came out the Pioneer elite model was even more than this $1,800 blu ray player, they had a dvd player for $2,000. Look here: (http://www.thedigitalbits.com/reviews/dv09.html)

History of DVD (launch prices, and how quickly they dropped after being mass produced): http://www.wiseacres.com/dvd.htm

Same will be the same for blu-ray once it goes into mass production.

[QUOTE="Flugigo"][QUOTE="E2ESQUARE"]However, the price tag WILL be over $500 dollars if not that price exactly. E2ESQUARE

PS3 prototype = 3k

PS3 mass production = $850 approx unless sony can find something else to chop off of the PS3

IE, it wont be 400 bucks, you are just living in a dream if you think that, get real. 500 bucks minimum, no less

Sony manufactures thier own parts (except the RSX), so they can afford to put better technology in the ps3.  Microsoft has to get parts made adding extra expenses.

Edit: Still I don't see how it could cost the same as the 360

its already been said that the DRIVE for the ps3 only costs $100~ to make.  theres a BIG difference in costs when it comes to drives vs players people.ShockerD19

untrue

sony doesnt make the blue ray drive in the PS3, or the cell processor or the radio board or the casing. It only costs 5 cents to make a can of coke, but it sells for around a dollar, this is the same, sony has to buy the parts for the PS3, they arent hommade, it isnt free.

I am being realistic not fantastic and not fanboy dreams. This is it, more parts+more technology+more power = more money. Sony just cant make everything cheap. PS2 was $300 at launch, Xbox 360 was $400 at launch, and a more powerful system that costs more to manufacture WILL NOT sell for less. Rule of economics: If you sell less then you charge then you are loosing money. Goal = gain money. If Sony isnt making the parts, then they are buying them, and if they are buying prototype superprocessors with 5GHZ of processing power, (4GHZ sells for around 1,000 for a pentium D) then it will be over 500 bucks. I am buying one, im just telling you that if you go the the store with 400 bucks, you are walking away empty handed

untrue

sony doesnt make the blue ray drive in the PS3, or the cell processor or the radio board or the casing. It only costs 5 cents to make a can of coke, but it sells for around a dollar, this is the same, sony has to buy the parts for the PS3, they arent hommade, it isnt free.

I am being realistic not fantastic and not fanboy dreams. This is it, more parts+more technology+more power = more money. Sony just cant make everything cheap. PS2 was $300 at launch, Xbox 360 was $400 at launch, and a more powerful system that costs more to manufacture WILL NOT sell for less. Rule of economics: If you sell less then you charge then you are loosing money. Goal = gain money. If Sony isnt making the parts, then they are buying them, and if they are buying prototype superprocessors with 5GHZ of processing power, (4GHZ sells for around 1,000 for a pentium D) then it will be over 500 bucks. I am buying one, im just telling you that if you go the the store with 400 bucks, you are walking away empty handed

E2ESQUARE

You do realize that all consoles (besides those made by Nintendo, usually) sell for a loss during their first couple of years (at least), right?  They do this to sell more consoles.  Why?  Because the money is in the software.  Each piece of software made by a third party developer requires that developer to pay a fee to the console manufacturer, and all first party software sends the total profits right into the pockets of the console manufacturer.

With the Blu-ray drive in PlayStation 3, Sony can seemingly afford to take an even bigger hit when it comes to the price of the console.  Since each and every piece of Blu-ray technology requires royalties to be paid to Sony, they make money from not only games, but each and every Blu-ray movie sold. 

Knowing that they can make some massive profits on the software side, I'm willing to bet Sony will deliver the PlayStation 3 for far less than most people seem to think.  They need to sell it at a massive loss to get the machine into people's homes -- because they know that people will want to buy both games and movies to show off their new Blu-ray player.

ever since PS3 was officially announced Sony has been behind closed doors trying desperately to scrap whatever they can. At E3 last year, the one prototype of Sony's Playstation 3 was a 3,000 dollar individual unit. The biggest prices were due to the prototype blue ray dvd which now costs 1,800 alone (less in mass quantities, but not less than 1,00 each), the $200 radio board and most of all, a state of the art still prototype cell processor costing about 3,000 dollars on its own. I.E. PS3 will not be cheap despite the rumors that it will cost $400 dollars. Given that, Sony can get price breaks, so you won't end up skipping college to pay for your PS3. However, the price tag WILL be over $500 dollars if not that price exactly. Combined with an increased price for videogames ($66 with tax), you will be getting into the $600 range just for the console and one game. Bundled with 2 games and a controller, the price jacks up to $750 and up. I am a fanboy, but all that aside, Xbox 360 is very pricey. Whenever a console bundle gets up to $2000 dollars with under ten games, then you know something is expensive in a big way. That being said, $400 dollars for a premium is still at a minimum $100 less then the basic PS3 model stripped down to the core. WIll super prices effect PS3 sales?

high prcies werent the problem with the xbox 360. Ps3 will always have its core audience that will buy its super console no matter how much overtime they must endure to get one. But the question is all about the casual gamers who want a console for $300 bucks and a copy of the newest madden every year, nothing more. PS2 was first and it was cheaper then the xbox. I think casual gamers who just wanna play games for fun and only once in a while will be more attracted to what doesnt brake their bank, not what would put them in bankruptcy. Will casual gamers abandon the Sony empire? you decide...

E2ESQUARE

I'm not paying more than 200.cysf661

[QUOTE="Arch-Renegade04"]lol forget arm and a leg, its more like liver and a lung.Puckhog04

It's probably going to be $100 more then the Premium...:|

That's not much more.

ever since PS3 was officially announced Sony has been behind closed doors trying desperately to scrap whatever they can. At E3 last year, the one prototype of Sony's Playstation 3 was a 3,000 dollar individual unit. The biggest prices were due to the prototype blue ray dvd which now costs 1,800 alone (less in mass quantities, but not less than 1,00 each), the $200 radio board and most of all, a state of the art still prototype cell processor costing about 3,000 dollars on its own. I.E. PS3 will not be cheap despite the rumors that it will cost $400 dollars. Given that, Sony can get price breaks, so you won't end up skipping college to pay for your PS3. However, the price tag WILL be over $500 dollars if not that price exactly. Combined with an increased price for videogames ($66 with tax), you will be getting into the $600 range just for the console and one game. Bundled with 2 games and a controller, the price jacks up to $750 and up. I am a fanboy, but all that aside, Xbox 360 is very pricey. Whenever a console bundle gets up to $2000 dollars with under ten games, then you know something is expensive in a big way. That being said, $400 dollars for a premium is still at a minimum $100 less then the basic PS3 model stripped down to the core. WIll super prices effect PS3 sales?

high prcies werent the problem with the xbox 360. Ps3 will always have its core audience that will buy its super console no matter how much overtime they must endure to get one. But the question is all about the casual gamers who want a console for $300 bucks and a copy of the newest madden every year, nothing more. PS2 was first and it was cheaper then the xbox. I think casual gamers who just wanna play games for fun and only once in a while will be more attracted to what doesnt brake their bank, not what would put them in bankruptcy. Will casual gamers abandon the Sony empire? you decide...

E2ESQUARE

hell yes