PS3 price going up to R6800?

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doobiwan

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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/product/detail.aspx?productid=F2E02770-1CEF-422F-984F-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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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!
 
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.
 
Bwahaha why worry about the console war in this country? It's not that MS wants to win it, seems more like Sony wants to lose it.
 
This is a very interesting, err, strategy. Their nefarious plan will be complete when they increase the price of the games. That'll show Microsoft.

tibby.dude said:
Ken Kataguri himself said that you just must work a little bit harder if you think it is too expensive ;).
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That's why my gang and I are working hard on a plan to kidnap him.

doobiwan said:
so why does Sony/Ster Kinekor see fit to price the stuff even higher here, especially considering there's now competition in the market.
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Because for years Ster Kinekor has essentially owned the South African console market. And they are probably relying on this remaining Playstation country.
 
Ster Kinekor is a really dodge distributer. Strange that Sony went with them again after all the blatant gouging on the PS2. Took the PS2 market much longer to get properly established than it should have. Also the massive piracy of PS2 games in ZA has a lot to do with the chosen distributer. PS3 is already overpriced in SA compared to the rest of the world. (Where it is overpriced anyway). The excuse that I have heard is that the original batch of PS3s that they imported are now gone and the new batch is going to cost more due to unavoidable blah blah blah.
 
GougedEye said:
Also the massive piracy of PS2 games in ZA has a lot to do with the chosen distributer.
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Interesting you mention that. Did you see the NPD sales figures last week? While the PS2 is outselling the 360 on a unit per unit basis, the 360 is outselling the PS2 when in comes to actual software sales ever though the install base ratio is around 10:1.

I'd almost certainly say piracy on the PS2 has a lot to do with it.
 
GougedEye said:
The excuse that I have heard is that the original batch of PS3s that they imported are now gone and the new batch is going to cost more due to unavoidable blah blah blah.
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considering a PS3 costs R3500 here in HK, they are really talking a load of crap.
 
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