Original PS1 price at launch in South Africa

Hanno Labuschagne

Hanno Labuschagne

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Good day, fellow old people. Looking into historical PlayStation prices and was hoping someone might recall the launch price of the PS1 in SA in 1996.
 
I remember quite clearly, since it came bundled with Resident Evil - R2499. I bought mine from Dion - most older people will remember this store.

That was a lot of cash for 1999 too. Prob around R11 000 in todays money.
 
longboy said:
I remember quite clearly, since it came bundled with Resident Evil - R2499. I bought mine from Dion - most older people will remember this store.

That was a lot of cash for 1999 too. Prob around R11 000 in todays money.
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Roughly that price in 1998 as well, went to Northgate with a friend who bought one.
 
When I was a laaitie, my grandparents took me to see my great grandparents in the UK, and they bought me a PS1 from a second-hand store for £100, which included two controllers, a memory card, Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2, Alone in the Dark, and Die Hard Trilogy. Circa 2000.
 
prod said:
That is quite high, in today's money that's like 13k and at that point the console was 4 years old already, although looks like it only released in SA in '96.

Maybe not too bad for a bundle with 5 games but definitely not as cheap as people make it out to be.
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Well the console itself was around 2k in 1998, so 5 games, extra controller, memory card + the sundries adding up to another grand, not to bad considering the controller was about 200 bucks by itself, the memory card was also about 200 bucks.
I remember the PS2 when I got it in 2003 was about 2k as well, the Xbox 360 was 4k for the Pro model in 2006 on Launch here. Gaming was a bit cheaper when the Rand and dollar were better
Close enough ;-) didn't always come with the 2 free games
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I recall it was about R2000, Game had a special on 16 December with 10% discount on everything in the store.

I bought it bargaining on my Xmas bonus to pay for it. The next week we were called in and were notified all Xmas bonuses were cancelled. :ROFL:

Still had the PS to have fun at home and not go out.
 
Lupus said:
Well the console itself was around 2k in 1998, so 5 games, extra controller, memory card + the sundries adding up to another grand, not to bad considering the controller was about 200 bucks by itself, the memory card was also about 200 bucks.
I remember the PS2 when I got it in 2003 was about 2k as well, the Xbox 360 was 4k for the Pro model in 2006 on Launch here. Gaming was a bit cheaper when the Rand and dollar were better
Close enough ;-) didn't always come with the 2 free games
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360 was my first ever console. I had it for a like a month and only played Red Dead Redemption and AC before selling it again cause I needed rent money, good times
 
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