PS3 price going up to R6800?

[doobiwan]

I heard a rumour about this a few days ago that this was going to happen, being from (another) 360 fan I took it with a pinch of salt, but today I found this:

http://www.lookandlisten.co.za/produ...F-B7FFC24AC4F2
(PS3 for R6800, not a bundle)

All the sites that have it listed as R6300 still have stock whereas L&L is out of stock - indicating it may be the price of all incoming units.

Can anyone confirm? Was R6300 just a launch special?

[Brawler]

madness..

[GavinMannion]

Damn I saw that rumour as well and also wasn't sure if I should believe it or not.

[GavinMannion]

Damn I had to come back and just say again...

This is insane... time to lie down

[dabouncer]

Price has gone to R6499.95 where i shop.

[GavinMannion]

where do you shop?

[tibby.dude]

All the power of the Cell Broadband Processor and BlueRAY !!!!

Surely it is worth a measly R7000 ???.

Ken Kataguri himself said that you just must work a little bit harder if you think it is too expensive .

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...75504838642038

I choose the Wii .

[dabouncer]

where do you shop?

http://www.btgames.co.za/btgames/Inf...xNo=34&sfile=3

[scotty777]

lol... good thing i got it when it was cough um... cheap...

but trust sony to put up the price when the world says lower the price, bloody rebells.

[useless]

And would be the excuse this time from Ster Kinekor? Geez.

Lucky me i also got it on a special from a BT Games store opening.

[GavinMannion]

utter madness..... where they just hoping people wouldn't notice?

Incredible Connection now has it for R6599

http://www.incredible.co.za/services...&FromHome=true

[doobiwan]

You know, probably. So that's a R6500, a R6600 and a R6800. I wonder what the new list is really supposed to be?

[GavinMannion]

CNA seemed to have stopped selling it on there site and Kalahari.net still has the old price along with Musica..

Very strange... incredibly dumb but still strange.

[The_Omlette]

For what its worth, putting the price of the PS3 up would be the most counterproductive move Sony or Ster Kinekor could make.

It goes against the pricing model of all hi-tech items. Normally release prices are high for early adopters and drop gradually as economies of scale begin to apply.
As a fan of the PS2 and a potential PS3 customer a price hike would annoy me enough to make me buy an XBox on principle!

[doobiwan]

What I don't understand, is that typically we get stuff either at about USD price*10 or at a direct conversion of the UK price. However, that should make it about R6000, so why does Sony/Ster Kinekor see fit to price the stuff even higher here, especially considering there's now competition in the market.