PS3 price cuts in 2009?
At this point there are only rumours to go by, but if there is any truth in them then June will see the 80GB PS3 getting $100 (R1 000) hacked off its retail price.
The rumors can be traced back to Wedbush Morgan – a financial services and investment firm – which also predicted that Microsoft would chop $50 off the Xbox 360 Pro, taking it down to the $250 mark.
The news follows a report that Sony had recently managed to get its PS3 manufacturing cost down from $690 to $450, just $50 more than its current US retail price.
If the PS3 does come down to $300, then 2009 may very well be “the year of the PS3”, a title that was expected in 2008 but never really materialised.
Along with some big PS3-exclusive titles scheduled such as Killzone 2, God of War 3 and Uncharted 2, at $300 the PS3’s value proposition for 2009 will dramatically increase. And it had better, if Sony is looking to recoup the $2.5billion the console has cost the company to date.
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