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Title: PS3 Price Adjustment Post by: ForumBot 0.8 beta on September 22, 2006, 06:40:49 AM PS3 Price Adjustment
Fresh from TGS, by way of Cubed3, Sony is cutting the price of the PS3 by 20%. This gives us ¥47,600, $410US, or £215 depending on where you live and if you believe a basic currency conversion will give accurate information. Also, they are only doing this in Japan, so get your mod chips on order. Title: Re: PS3 Price Adjustment Post by: NiX on September 26, 2006, 06:07:05 PM Mod chips? I'm pretty sure PS3 isn't region coded. I could be wrong.
Title: Re: PS3 Price Adjustment Post by: Signe on September 26, 2006, 06:29:48 PM Well, if you DO need one, is it so you can play Japanese imports? Because I don't. I don't play games that I don't understand. They just confuse me.
Title: Re: PS3 Price Adjustment Post by: Yegolev on October 03, 2006, 11:13:20 PM Is there some reason to think Sony would not inflict region encoding on us? If anyone would have not bothered, it would have been Nintendo I think, but the Wii is regioned. Must be something about PAL/NTSC.
As for why to mod, you should be able to get a Japanese machine and mod it to play non-JP games. This could end up costing more than getting the NA one, but you'd be able to play games that you couldn't understand a bit more cheaply. I'm not really suggesting anyone do this... or buy a PS3, even. Title: Re: PS3 Price Adjustment Post by: Velorath on October 04, 2006, 09:05:30 AM Is there some reason to think Sony would not inflict region encoding on us? Just the fact that they confirmed that the PS3 would be region free for games. (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/23/0021243&from=rss) Title: Re: PS3 Price Adjustment Post by: Signe on October 04, 2006, 09:12:20 AM At least PS3 is going to be completely backward compatible. That's important to me. It's ONE reason I haven't bought a 360. I think it's despicable that I can't trash my xbox when I get a new xbox. Anyway... I can't seem pre-order one anyway. Schild, go ask that Smedgley bloke to find me one, please? I bet he knows where they keep them and everything.
Title: Re: PS3 Price Adjustment Post by: Sky on October 04, 2006, 12:23:43 PM The PS3's backward compatibility is actually attractive for me, because I never bought a PS2. The 360's lack doesn't bother me, because I can always lug out the old xbox for the handful of titles I'd ever want to revisit on it. But if the PS3 is backward compatible, there are a few PS2 titles I'd like to play (though not enough to buy a PS2).
Smedgley would be a great english butler name. Oh Smedgley, fetch me my hasenfeffer! Title: Re: PS3 Price Adjustment Post by: Signe on October 04, 2006, 01:56:08 PM Title: Re: PS3 Price Adjustment Post by: Sky on October 05, 2006, 06:26:26 AM :heartbreak:
You don't like hasenfeffer? Title: Re: PS3 Price Adjustment Post by: Signe on October 05, 2006, 06:35:11 AM I'm just embarrassed. I thought that's how you spelled his name.
Bunnies taste like chicken. We have roast bunny every Easter. Title: Re: PS3 Price Adjustment Post by: Sky on October 05, 2006, 07:47:46 AM We should just call him that now.
Title: Re: PS3 Price Adjustment Post by: Yegolev on October 05, 2006, 09:11:00 AM Is there some reason to think Sony would not inflict region encoding on us? Just the fact that they confirmed that the PS3 would be region free for games. (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/23/0021243&from=rss) Well, that's refreshing if true. That's what I get for not reading PS3 news, that and a refreshing lack of brain tumors. I assume this only applies to PS3 games. If the PS3 would play PS2 and PS1 games from any region, I'd pretty much have to get one right off. And a second job/promotion. On backward-compatibility: the first game I am going to boot in my PS3 is Vagrant Story. Believe it. Also on BC: I will get a 360 when I have finished all of my Xbox games, or Something Weird happens to make room for it. |