Cheapest PS3 Anyone?

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Hey folks...

Anyone have any idea where I can get the cheapest PS3 console in the Gauteng area?
Actually looking to buy 4 consoles along with 4 games...our company's raffling the consoles off for the next 4 months to its employees...hehe and I'm the first winner:D

Pleeeeeeeaaaaaze help...I want my console!!!!!!

Thanks
 
Nice company you work for there. Let me know next time they recruiting :P cheapest I've seen is R6279 at hifi corp.
 
/me waits patiently till someone mentions getting an Xbox instead..... :p :D

Menace is right that's the cheapest you can get it now. But you should hurry up. PS3 prices will be going up soon. Or have they already? :confused:
 
/me waits patiently till someone mentions getting an Xbox instead..... :p :D

You Win :)

Menace is right that's the cheapest you can get it now. But you should hurry up. PS3 prices will be going up soon. Or have they already? :confused:

They have already, you need to find a place with old stock...

Since you are buying 4 try phone BT Games (www.btgames.co.za) and ask for a discount. They are a games specialist shop so you will get good service generally.

//Seriously though get 4 Xboxes and 5 games per box... ;)
 
Frankly I'm going to agree with Gavin - rather get Xboxes They're half the price and twice as much fun. (Any thought I was going to say anything otherwise?! ;))

Standard list price for a PS3 is R6600 now, games average R580+, the 360 Pro is R3700 and games from R250-R599 (Average about R450). So for your PS3's you're looking at R35680. If you look at 360, you can get bundles which include the pro console, and extra wireless controller, and a top of the line game (Forza 2 @ Look and Listen for example) for R4000.

You could get 6 Bundles with an extra 4 games each (5 in total) AND the extra controller for the same price as the 4 PS3's.

And if you're wondering, the Xbox has the better quality games at the moment by country miles and will do for the foreseeable future. The only thing the PS3 has extra is a Blu-ray player which is utterly useless unless you have a R20k HiDef TV. The Xbox's online service is also leagues above the PS3's, and with ADSL available from R169/month all inclusive, it's a must have.
 
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what the hell? i mean i'm not attacking you guys, but if the company whats to gets ps3's let them, For Christ sake,why do you xbox guys have ridicule the ps3? Sure it's more expensive, but then IT WON'T BREAK!!! and how in the name of god can you say it's twice as fun doobiwan?

The last thing i want is another console war but you guys keep asking for it. The ps3 has internet! and would you believe, you get wifi built in.

I really don't understand why you guys have to ague every god dam time. If they wanted to get a cheaper console, they would have gone for a xbox or wii or ps2. But clearly, they wanted the "best" console so that the prise seems more glamorous
 
/off topic

Sadly the "best" console has not had new games in over 3 months to play. I have traded in my Motorstorm & F1 for DiRT (X360) simply coz I couldnt find the gaming attraction in them.

Just by looking at the same games performing identically on both consoles doesnt justify the almost 2x price tag on the PS3. Sure it has a BR drive but Doobi has posted its limitation.

/on topic

Purchasing at a BT Games store should be the best option if you seek 4 units though. Dont FORGET TO ALSO BUY HDMI CABLES, as the PS3 isnt HD out of the box.
 
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what the hell? i mean i'm not attacking you guys, but if the company whats to gets ps3's let them, For Christ sake,why do you xbox guys have ridicule the ps3? Sure it's more expensive, but then IT WON'T BREAK!!! and how in the name of god can you say it's twice as fun doobiwan?

If you noticed I quite happily game him the best advice I could and then game him my opinion... that is what happens on forums.

Doobiwan is a card carrying Xbox 360 fan what else do you really expect.

//he did make some excellent points that you failed to refute though ;)
 
Sorry I keep poking that nerve of yours Scotty, you should see someone about it, maybe a certain Major Nelson . . . ;)

You've asked me before but I'll tell you again anyway, South Africans don't know the Xbox brand, the noun for "game console" here is "playstation". People who may not be aware of the brand miss out if no-one is prepared to make a bit of noise. I guess i'm just the noise ;)

in addition, Kro's looking to do a raffle, the more prizes you have the more likely people will enter.

la la la . . . how in the name of [tsk tsk] can you say it's twice as fun doobiwan?

Easily, with abandon, and a couple hundred titles to back me up. Actually scratch that, it's way more than double the fun. The 360 is buried under a pile of AAA games and new ones just keep coming. Even if I could afford all the games I want, there is no way I could get through all of them because they just keep on coming. In the meantime, as useless said, there hasn't been a decent game for the PS3 in over 3 months, and that's not changing soon. It got lucky this week with some movie tie-ins, 6 month old 360 ports and cross platform titles, which noneless, as always, came out better on the 360.

More fun, better believe it. We play over a dozen different games online, local, in SA with no lag, while the paltry few PS3 owners occasionally get a game going because they have to connect to international servers. I log on every night and there's always around 50 of the 1000+ locals waiting to kick my a$$ at something.

The last thing i want is another console war but you guys keep asking for it. The ps3 has internet! and would you believe, you get wifi built in.

The 360 has wireless if you want it, Interesting choice of the word "internet". I have a PC at home, at the office and a cell phone that call all surf the net, I don't need a console to surf, I need it to play, so thanks I'll give my xbox another hug.

There is no war at the moment Scotty. Sony has to actually put up a fight for there to be a war. maybe next year will be better if Sony can hold on to it's last few exclusives, but the analysts have already given '07 to Wii and Xbox.

I really don't understand why you guys have to ague every god dam time. If they wanted to get a cheaper console, they would have gone for a xbox or wii or ps2. But clearly, they wanted the "best" console so that the prise seems more glamorous

ROFL, now who's trolling? You're right the PS3 is the best home theatre MP3 player on the market. Pity it's not a particularly good games console. And pretty overpriced for what it does.
 
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It's a pity Kro isn't joining in this discussion, it's nice watching people get converted...

Where has Retro got to again ;)
 
Well... Getting back on topic. Kro, sorry abt the kids. Eh, www.digitalplanet.co.za has the good console at R6199 i think. Seeing as u r planning on shelling this much cash try work out a discount with some stores. HI-FI Corp sorted me out on other appliances.
 
*sigh* this is ridicules, it's funny how you xbox idiots keep trying to fight. It's not a matter of, that the xbox vs ps3 discussion! Kro was asking were he would get the ps3 cheapest. There's no need to try get the poor guy to buy another console.

Thats like saying, Yes um, where can i go where it snows(our weather has inspired me) and you retards come and start saying,:go where it rain's, oooo,snow sucks, it's hard to find, and it's cold, and white... where as rain is warm, wet and fun.... .

Just help the guy, lord, by throwing random pro box **** that the guy isn't helping matters.

Oh doobiwan, WHO GIVES A CRAP! dude grow up, who cares if the box has 200 games??? you only gonna buy 10 of those, and those games are either cross plate form or an exclusive(GOW, halo-pc, and the other exclusives you probable won't buy). This of coarse raises my next question, who the hell has such little or no life to sit at home just to celebrate the fact that they can buy what ever game they want?

BTW, i don't care, i got the games i want, and in two days in getting the darkness, then i'm getting assassins creed, then who knows...

The fact is i'm happy with my choice, the console in my eyes is better then the xbox, but the price, is debatable.

Xbox fans, can you guys please stay COOL! gosh, freakin idiots. Just be helpful, and not *******
 
Now why would Highflyer_GP delete his comment. :D

Nope, H_GP scotty lost his skirt, oops .. Kilt
 
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Xbox fans, can you guys please stay COOL! gosh, freakin idiots. Just be helpful, and not *******

i would also be jumping up and down like a funny little man if i knew i bought a R6300.00 console that just about does what a R3800.00 console does.

one day in 2013 the local vid store will have blueray rentals too ;)

as for the company buying 4 ps3's. what a waste of cash. rather buy 4 xbox's couple of games and a few hookers with the change.
 
I'd have to agree that it would be a better prize if it was an XBox 360. Can the winners even get a decent price for the PS3 if they sell it so they can buy a 360? I've seen PS3's going for under R5k secondhand.
 
I'd have to agree that it would be a better prize if it was an XBox 360. Can the winners even get a decent price for the PS3 if they sell it so they can buy a 360? I've seen PS3's going for under R5k secondhand.

Where? :confused:

I would prefer a Xbox but it's hardware track record has me concerned.

See guys, isn't it fun dragging a topic completely off track?
 
Sounds like someone is trying to justify his R6300 white elephant ;)
 
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