Australia Gets PS3 price cut for new Crippled PS3s!

[Azazel]

I think many people underestimate how big a turn-off RROD is.
I hate returning shit. Part of the reasons people buy consoles is to avoid hassles, not to encourage them. The RROD issue blew up in MS' face right as they were poised to destroy Sony.

I think you're right about RROD. You don't know how many times I've heard teenagers at work talk about how the 360 is shit because they break down all the time. I've even been at EB and seen people returning them a few times, and I only get into EBs about 3 times a month.

Most of them are, Righ. But there's also the whole standard of living/relative currency thing. Like with pounds compared to Hong Kong dollars. How many officialy-English-speaking countries are there, anyway? Like six? I'd guess that all but the UK have weaker currencies on a per-unit basis, and you can't directly compare pounds to US dollars as you'd well know. Canada's the only one that's effectively just hit parity

[Yegolev]

Guitar-wise, I was under the impression that someone had already released a PS2>PS3 adaptor for the peripherals, the guitars in particular?

You are correct, sir.
http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?cookie%5Ftest=1&product_id=802566

[Yegolev]

I'd just like to say that the business plan of "Buy our product NOW, because later versions will be worse and you don't want to get stuck with that POS" is a watershed moment in the history of economics, right up there with Cartman's amusement park that he didn't allow people into.

As usual, Nintendo did this first by removing progressive scan from the Cube.

[Simond]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=8270405#post8270405

And there you go.

[Grand Design]

The fact that the 40g is white means I'll be getting the 80g.

I don't need a smoke stained PS3.

We're choosing to focus on the PlayStation 2 consumer with the PlayStation 2, which remains incredibly relevant, and focus on the PlayStation 3 consumer with the new 40-gigabyte model and the great software coming out.

Bastard.

[schild]

I can not find information on what the 60GB is dropping to.

Sad panda.

[Yegolev]

Dropping to nonexistance, right?

[Velorath]

Dropping to nonexistance, right?

Pretty much.  It's discontinued once the supplies are gone.  The 80GB is replacing it.

[schild]

Dropping to nonexistance, right?

Gamestop should drop it to clear out stock. Or some companies should.

[Velorath]

Dropping to nonexistance, right?

Gamestop should drop it to clear out stock. Or some companies should.

Maybe they just figure that since it's the only PS3 still available with full hardware BC, that it will clear out anyway.

[schild]

80GB has full hardware BC (in america, hur hur hur)

[Velorath]

80GB has full hardware BC (in america, hur hur hur)

Actually it has a mix of hardware and software based BC in the U.S.

Edit:  There's a reason why Sony's site that allows you to check what games are BC has one list for the 60GB and one for the 80GB).

[Yegolev]

They won't drop any prices, people that walk into GS looking for a PS3 are going to walk out with one, so why let some of them pay less?

[schild]

Gamestop emailed all of their stores saying that information about the 60GB dropping will be coming soon.

[Velorath]

Almost time for last month's NPD numbers to show up on GAF.  Will be interesting to see how much Halo 3 boosted the 360's numbers.


And here they are:

HW Sales
PlayStation 2 215K
PlayStation 3 119.4K
PlayStation Portable 284.5K
Xbox 360 527.8K
Wii 501K
Nintendo DS 495.8K
Game Boy Advance 75K

SW Sales
360 HALO 3* MICROSOFT (CORP) 1 3.3 million
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA 2 282K
NDS LEGEND OF ZELDA: PHANTOM HOURGLASS NINTENDO OF AMERICA 3 224K
PS2 MADDEN NFL 08 ELECTRONIC ARTS 4 205K
360 SKATE ELECTRONIC ARTS 5 175K
360 MADDEN NFL 08 ELECTRONIC ARTS 6 173K
WII METROID PRIME 3: CORRUPTION NINTENDO OF AMERICA 7 167K
360 BIOSHOCK TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE (CORP) 8 150K
NDS BRAIN AGE 2: MORE TRAINING IN MINUTES A NINTENDO OF AMERICA 9 141K
PS3 HEAVENLY SWORD SONY (CORP) 10 139K

[schild]

I give up.

Also, we have better taste under a democratic president: http://games.toptenreviews.com/list_ranking_ps_1997.htm

I concede defeat.

The mouthbreathing motherfuckers of America win gaming. I hope you like Bush Jr. Jr.

[Yegolev]

I hope you like Bush Jr. Jr.

I loled.

Those are some serious numbers.  Halo is invading my motherfucking.

[MisterNoisy]

I give up.

Also, we have better taste under a democratic president: http://games.toptenreviews.com/list_ranking_ps_1997.htm

I concede defeat.

The mouthbreathing motherfuckers of America win gaming. I hope you like Bush Jr. Jr.

I'm curious as to what you're so surprised by.  You knew pretty well in advance that H3 was going to 'win Christmas'.

PS3 is a great box that even the owners aren't turning on except to watch 'Planet Earth' in HD or (maybe) play their Heavenly Sword rental.  Stop judging it as a gaming console and start looking at the BD player numbers instead, since that's what Sony is more interested in anyway.

[HaemishM]

I concede defeat.

The mouthbreathing motherfuckers of America win gaming. I hope you like Bush Jr. Jr.

Of course they win. There are more of them than there will ever be of you, and they have less disposable income. And now they want to play games. You should be happy as hell that Bioshock made it in the top 10 during both Halo fever week and leftover Madden fever week. That's an intelligent, non-mainstream game that's had well-deserved success in what is now a mainstream, mouthbreathers' market.

[Velorath]

Jack Tretton is saying in interviews now that BC wasn't dropped from the 40GB model to cut costs, it was dropped to encourage buyers to buy more PS3 games.  It's something many suspected I suppose, but it's another example of Sony's bad PR for them to come out and say they dropped an important feature on the PS3 because they want to force people into buying the shitty PS3 games being released.

[stray]

It works for the Wii, I guess. Shitty games, I mean.

[schild]

Turns out, it was only the PS2 BC that was dropped.

All of the BC stuff for PS1 games still works.

So you can still play uhhhh, FFT?

[Azazel]

It works for the Wii, I guess. Shitty games, I mean.

No BC issues for GC games, though. 

[Merusk]

Turns out, it was only the PS2 BC that was dropped.

All of the BC stuff for PS1 games still works.

So you can still play uhhhh, FFT?

And Bushido Blade.  And the kid's educational games that didn't make it to PS2.  Son loves Bob the Builder.

[schild]

It works for the Wii, I guess. Shitty games, I mean.

No BC issues for GC games, though. 

You know why that is, right?

[Azazel]

NO!

[Yegolev]

Silent Hill
Vagrant Story
Symphony of the Night

[Velorath]

Silent Hill
Vagrant Story
Symphony of the Night

Eh, I think Symphony of the Night you can just download on PSN anyway.

You could play Colony Wars though.

Edit:  Related more to the topic at hand, Gamestop apparently must have had some small stockpile of 20GB PS3's which they are now selling for the tempting price of $380.

[Yegolev]

Interestingly, you can get Symphony of the Night from XBLA.