Its not Sony's fault. it could be loads of things but the fact is that those numbers given by that guy earlier about the price increase compared to the 360 are correct. Where I live the 360 was released at $800 the PS3 will be $1200, double the US prices. Thats 200% of the US prices and with the currency rates how it is it should only be around 150%.

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In the UK, retailer sources have confirmed that the 60GB version of the console (20GB version is not expected to be available at launch) will cost about £425 (about €647 / US$838). Sony UK boss Ray Maguire previously stated that the UK price was a "bargain".

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You gotta be kidding me that is no way a bargain. If that's the price in Europe, just imagine what its going to be for Australia and New Zealand.

This is for New Zealand, Australia would no doubt be slightly cheaper.

But its not the currency or price that the post is meant for, its about the comparison between PS3 and xbox360 release prices.

this is why all UK gamers should give up and import your systems and games it might cost 30-50% more but in the end you get more games and send a message to to the corperations to get their head out of their arse...

the usual marketing ploy with companies such as sony is to start at an over inflated price (£425) then when it seems that all the consumers that can afford that price have bought it, then the price falls. personally i will not buy a ps3 as, 1) the prices in the uk are a rip off and i`m sick of it. 2) neither the product nor the technology have been tested to the extreme. and 3) the next generation console is probably already in the pipeline and a year or 2 down the line we will be being offered the next, next big thing.

I dunno the 360 will envolve lil by lil in 3-5 years it wil be complete with HDVD,60-120GB HDD,HDMI standard while the PS3 will always lose money for sony no matter what they do because they made the system whole and not in a upgradeable format its 500+ off the bat...it might drop 100$ in 3 years but thats not goign to help it...

Am from Ireland and wont be buying it here.
A couple of Polish mates are heading home in April, hence to say that my cash will be going with them to purchase a PS3 from Poland.

Sudds
gotta to what you can to save a dime god knows the corperations will charge you double for it wif they can,
if you imported a 500$ USA system what would the import fees be?

I have acoupel friends think abotu getting em to get them things here in the states and mail it to them.

we are unsure of the tax's and fees and crap ><

Am not sure what the fees would be mate... But if you do gotta make sure your TV displays NTSC and is 60Hz or higher, plus you would have to buy a transformer 110v -> 240v. Would it be worth all that in the end?

dude, its harder to find a tv that doesnt do NTSC and 60Hz >

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Sudds
for a PS3 mabye not,since it has some form of multi region play plus any TV with HDMI,coponant/scart would handle it.

the main trouble with the UK region is waiting on a game to come I swear they could nip the while pal/ntsc thing in the bud if they would just add the switch to each system or make a cable/adapter for it but no they want to play games with consumer,I say if you can get off EU games altogether and just import it all because they are doing more harm than good for us all.

The rants about people saying that people are paying sooo much more in the UK is rubbish.
We have a thriving economy with alot of companies and business competing for our business.
Go to Tesco and see the product lines and cut prices! totally cheaper than alot of Europe not to mention the choice!
You can buy a colour TV for 30 quid for god sake.
My point is the UK has cut price products and business that will come into line with the States and Japan and our prices for especially electrical products is alot cheaper than the rest of Europe.

And another thing if you can't afford the PS3 slap it on your credit card!

Thats what you will do anyway! buy now pay later suckers!

peterkayy
and thats why it took 10 years for a mainstream game company to TRY and do something about the stupid regional system and even then its locked for PAL movies only,sad....very....

What are you talking about Zippy????

PAL is a much better system than NTSC and SECAM are power supply/voltage is the best in the world.

Stop harping on about PAL conversion twaddle.

We have our own ideas in this country! and that is why we have alot of highly educated people coming up with great ideas. This is what makes us strong for such a small island.

We want the PS3 so we will have to wait and pay a bit extra as our country has adapted a different system. The Japanese will obviously adapt their system for America before us as theres alot more money in it.

Get a life and think about the big picture.

peterkayy
you seem to fail to realize games are made for NTSC and a hardware switch is cheap and simple yet they went the /region/ route in order to mark up and limit distribution to that market.

the PS3 tries to change this but is limited.

NTSC is way better than PAL, not only does it have more lines on screen but it also has 60hz which is faster than PAL's framerate refresh of 50hz.

Get it right PAL has more lines than NTSC also most new TV's run at 100hz now anyway.

Stop moaning and move to Japan or the States.

peterkayy
Pal is a format of the past,being left for more world wide formats like ntcs and the new digital formats,my grip about PAL is they can could do something better than play divide and conquer by region....the PS3 is something that really could have changed things but it still ahve region codes and the UK version of it will only play UK movies while the USA/Jp one can play jp/usa movies,this about as anti consumer as you can get.

Zippy it's NTSC! and it's an older format than PAL.
When PAL was introduced in the 60's people didn't realise that the PS3 in 2007 would have regional problems with their product.
What do you want the world to be? Communist?
What next! the UK drives on the left but most of the world drives on the right. So we should change it to be more in line with the world.

Like I said move to Japan they drive on the left!

peterkayy
then why my dear is PAL not support by the world why is it a fading format?

oy vay focus already I don't care if its NTSC or PAL my point is the paint by region scheme the corporations are using is lame and needs to be done away with ALTOGETHER.....

Fading format?
Where did you get that from?
The problem is when you have a "standard" in a country you cannot just change it overnight as in the UK's case you have around 60,000,000 people to deal with.
Take digital TV the government has given around 5 years before the terestrial signal will be scrapped.
You need to keep everybody happy, the government is not going to say why not change to NTSC because Zippy and Bungle want a PS3 quicker than Joe Bloggs.
Standards don't get changed overnight they take years!

I actually prefer the PAL method over NTSC (and there's a famous mockery of the system, Never The Same Colour).
You may get an extra 10 frames a second, but here it's 576i rather than 480i and as that line shows, better colour differentiation. But with the advent of HD this is all starting to have less relevance.

peterkayy
I am in the US and the PS3 can go the hell with sony,but my point is the console makers could easily fix the whole region thing with a simple software/hardware switch but to save a tiny bit of money and to frustrate the world with the region gimmick so they blame money losses on failed regional sales.

I don't blame PAL for not being fully supported I blame the corporations for not supporting them!

My only compliant agisnt PAL is that the game devs decided they didn't have to release game in the EU region because they didn't put a NTSC to PAL converter into the software/hardware because they are cheap bastards.

Again pal/ntsc I don't give a rip thats besides the point the corporations not releasing games to the 3rd largest market is something to be miffed about.

This is all bullsh*t.

We all get royally screwed in the UK (prices for cd,dvd , ps3 you name it).

The reason anything is done i.e UK machines locked to PAL , region encoding etc is to make as much money out of us as possible. Otherwise we'd be buying ps3's from the US for $400.

The Sony UK boss is obviously a complete jerk to suggest $800 is a bargain. What an assh*le!

Well Sony , you can shove your ps3's where the sun dont shine , you wont be getting any of my money.And thats how easy it is to torpedo multinational moneygrabbers, just dont give them your money......Maybe a few have washed ashore along the Devon coast from that sinking container ship , You know what?? I'm still not interested ;)

When they look to charge us in the UK, Republic of Ireland and continental Europe £425/€647/€599/$840

It's worth bearing in mind they're charging
$329 in Japan (£166/€253 at todays rates).

Even the 'regular' Japanese price looks like a great bargain compared to what we are supposed to be looking at for one (49,980 yen = US $412 = £208 = €316).

Suckers.

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PS3 sales in Japan haven't cooled off, they've frozen. Consoles sit on shelves as gamers wait it out: Waiting for actual games to appear or prices to drop.

Retailers, on the other hand, are an impatient lot. Retailers are also buying "used" PS3s at much lower prices than previously, paying well under the original sticker price.

Just look at how the Don Quijote in Akihabara is slicing 20 percent off the 20GB PLAYSTATION 3.
Nice 20-20 irony.

The 20GB version originally books at 49,980 yen (US $412), but is being offered for 39,980 yen ($329) in a sale ending February.

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