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Main Decks => Gaming => Topic started by: Rico on August 17, 2011, 08:47:30 AM

Title: PS3 - now only $249.
Post by: Rico on August 17, 2011, 08:47:30 AM
Sony has now dropped the price of the base version of it's PS3 to $249.  That's a nice deal for a game machine and good Blu-Ray player. 

Beleaguered by an embarrassing hacking incident and drooping console sales, Sony is dropping the price of the PlayStation 3, its flagship console. Beginning this week, the 160 GB version of the PS3 will retail for $249, down from $299. Meanwhile, the price tag on the king-sized 320 GB PS3 will be sliced from $349 to $299, putting the machine more on less on parity with the Xbox 360. (The 250 GB version of the Microsoft console goes for $299.)......

full story:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/0817/PlayStation-3-price-drop-Enough-to-bolster-Sony-sales (http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/0817/PlayStation-3-price-drop-Enough-to-bolster-Sony-sales)
Title: Re: PS3 - now only $249.
Post by: turtlesrock on August 18, 2011, 05:03:05 PM
i might just need to look into that.... sounds like a good time to get into PS3s.
Title: Re: PS3 - now only $249.
Post by: Rico on August 23, 2011, 08:37:38 AM
I think we might even see them down to $200 by the holidays too.
Title: Re: PS3 - now only $249.
Post by: Dangelus on August 23, 2011, 08:47:14 AM
Quote from: Rico on August 23, 2011, 08:37:38 AM
I think we might even see them down to $200 by the holidays too.

Or after the next batch of hacking. ;)
Title: Re: PS3 - now only $249.
Post by: billybob476 on August 23, 2011, 08:50:24 AM
At 200 I might consider it!
Title: Re: PS3 - now only $249.
Post by: Rico on August 23, 2011, 08:50:29 AM
Those hackers have moved on now to new targets.  Hacking the PS3 is so early summer.  :)