Well, you know, Resistance is pretty fun.

Holly sh1t, 1000 dolars, thats to damn high, for that you can get a 360 premiun and wii, of course some PS3 will sell, but i doubt see them flying off the shelves, the only console that made that was the wii...

773 USD.. wow

773 USD isn't TOO bad... considering that's pretty much what you're paying here for a 60gb with tax.
But yeah... since that's not including tax... ehhh.. lol
Here's hoping it's worth it with this "March update".

Xbox 360 console - $650.00
wireless - $150.00
xbox live gold 1yr - $100.00
HD-DVD - ???

= $900.00

Well... if I wanted wireless and a HiDef disc format.

they'll sell. Kids here freaking LOVE the PS2. As in EB games is pretty much 75% PS2. You could sell a PS-anything. They'd buy a PS-RAPIST if it was black and had GTA.

@Revolutionary

The price for a 60GB with tax in the U.S. is about $650

Lol, I got an Xbox 360 in NZ recently for $945
Xbox 360 Premium + "Massive Entertainment Pack" (this includes a second wireless controller, Dead Or Alive 4 and PGR 3)+ Dead Rising + Gears Of War.

Lol at the $1200NZ price tag.

Lets see

out of the 30 games according to the list

Decent
alright
Crap
Crap
Port
Port
Port
crap
crap
crap
meh
Crap
Buggy Port
Buggy port
port
Shit
Crap
Crapper port
meh
Sport game
Snooker not eight ball
Crap
Crapper
terrible
Port
port
port
port
port
crap
port
looks like a crap GTA clone
crap
Meh
interesting
crap

The $1000 would include our national GST of 10%.

Sadly, this will actually sell well Down Under. I know I'll be buying one (if only to raffle off to unsuspecting idiots at work to raise money for our "morale-boosting social function" at the end of the fiscal year).

This is insane. Most people down here dont have a HDTV and the sad truth is are too dumb to realise that the reason it so expensive is not because its a more powerful game machine than the 360, but that it plays Bluray.

God it shits me. Sony dont even include component cables in the box! WHAT THE FUCK! Oh man the amount of people that will buy this thinking its all that because of the price tag compared to the 360 - which you can get for $500 now - will be huge. God it makes me angry.

the price for us in the uk was fucking ridiculous as well. I don't have HDTV either.

Wow, first time posting

just came to make a loggin account

damn, i love this site...

about PS3, i think it will take a long time till i touch one...damn brazil ¬¬

hehe

WTF is Super Rub'a'Dub ?

@Tyrannical
Sony's version of making you drop the soap in the prison showers.

"@Revolutionary

The price for a 60GB with tax in the U.S. is about $650"
Oh jeez. lol for some reason I was thinking the PS3 was $700 here. Whoops.

It's twice the price of a Core 360, and includes VAT.

This price is right in line with the pricing of other video games in Australia.

But of course, since this article is about Sony, it gets a huge negative spin.

Smooth.

Hey!

Who hacked the site and replace the Sony launch list with XBox 360 titles?

Curse you, hackers!

SWATdoctor sums it up rather concisely. Nothing more needs to be said.

I thought the price was released ages ago...

But meh. When I was preordering my Wii at the Toys R Us here the Wii had a whole page of preorders. The PS3 had 2. Something to think about.

It's a good thing they didn't make it 5c more expensive otherwise it'd look really expensive!!!

Mackprime: "They'd buy a PS-RAPIST if it was black and had GTA."

Umm, that came out kinda bad. Wanna rephrase that statement?

Does Sony realize that when you make the price higher that isn't lowering the price like everyone wants?

five cents short because AU got rid of the one cent coin years ago

Maybe Nintendo is saving up Wii units to bombard Europe and Austrailia with them in March. Maybe.

Well, at least it's not like here, in Mexico, where the 20 GB model costs almost $1,000... BTW, here the release date passed by, silently thanks to Nintendo and Microsoft...

Go go Sony!! You're writing a new page in console war history as the next SNK and Hudson Soft/NEC....

"But yeah... since that's not including tax... ehhh.. lol"

Actually it is, we have a pre-set Goods and Service tax that is pre-calculated.

The thing that is even worse is that the games will likely be $120. And this happening just after Wii games started to get pricing that isn't horribly extortionist.

Maybe sony are stupid and dont be idiotic enough to buy a ps3, wait for a price drop believe me itll come or just buy a 360 as its cheaper and better!!

I remember thinking in October that I'd buy one of these to eBay in order to pay for my Wii, not realising the delay of release.

I think I'll spend that grand on something else..

Quit whining, it still more expensive in the U.K.

AGHHHHHH MY ASS, SONY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

@GSB

Where can you get a 360 for $500? I'd be interested in buying one at that price.

Removing the local sales/value added taxes

Australian price (minus 10% GST):
AUD$ 909 - USD$ 702 - GBP£ 358 - JPN¥ 85546

US Price (ex tax):
AUD$ 776 - USD$ 600 - GBP£ 306 - JPN¥ 73086

Japanese Price (Don't think price includes consumption tax) =
AUD$ 667 - USD$ 516 - GBP£ 263 - JPN¥ 62790

UK Price (ex 17.5% VAT)
AUD$ 915 - USD$ 707 - GBP£ 361 - JPN¥ 86152

So, excluding local taxes, Australia and the UK are paying about the same for their PS3s - 35% more than the Japanese price and 17% more than the US price.

@Josh sorry man, typo, I meant $600. Although there was a deal at XMAS called the monster pack that included PGR3 and another game for that + the Premium pack... so not bad at all really.

You can get the core(tard) pack for $500 though. HDD seperately will cost $120.

Just for clarification, the (about) 63,000 yen price for the 60 gig PS3 includes the 5% sales tax in Japan (though the system is only 59,980 including tax at Amazon Japan).

DunnyPanMan - I picked up my Xbox Premium for $580 with a game, so I don't know where you're getting the $650 figure. And I very much doubt the Sony online service will compare to Xbox Live Gold. Which I got a month of free with my purchase, by the way ;)

And what's the $150 'wireless' for? The adapter? I just plugged it into the wireless router I had already.

I still think the price difference is pretty staggering.

There is one saving grace here, a blue-rat player is $1500AUD, PS3 is $1000AUD..so I think we'll see an OK uptake... amongst the BD camp at least

But yes $1000 is way too much, why, just last week a bought a Burmese family and a Russian bride for $799 plus tax... go figure!

@cykeichan - Thanks for that.

Amazon Japan price ex consumption tax = JPN¥ 57123
US Price is 28% higher.
UK/Aud price is 51% higher.

Ow.

Heh, whoever developed the blu-rat technology didn't consult a marketing firm about the name. :-P

...On a serious note.

Expensive is expensive, the psychological barrier for me is the magic $500 mark, anything between $500 and $1k is practically $1K in my eyes. So you guys can whine about 100 dollar price differences and what have you but all of the regions have expensive PS3s.

If you plan to buy one then by all means do so and use it in good health. But don't complain to me about why you elected to spend the money.

Hah, to think I though Xbox 360 was too pricey 2 years ago...talk about putting things in perspective.

Australia was Xboxland last generation, and it looks like that's not about to change...

That's surprising, didn't think the Australians were too excite over it.

I had a modded Xbox for while purely for the homebrew applications.I figured a lot of people had the same idea I had last gen.

But now I'm surprised to hear people talking about buying or just recently bought an Xbox 360...to play games. Seems like the system is more prolific this generation than it's predecessor.

I think I may end up getting an Xbox 360 to go with my Wii when ever I do get an HDTV. I'm just waiting for a hardware revision. A price drop wouldn't hurt either.

For now my modded PSP will continue to bask in the lime light.

The XBox did better here than elsewhere last gen, but the PS2 still had a much larger market share. So there will be plenty of people who will consider upgrading from a PS2 to a PS3.

However, I think a lot of people here are expecting the PS3 to follow the PS2's pricing trajectory. The PS2 launched here for AU$749, and its price started dropping within weeks. It fell to $499 within a year, and to $399 within 20 months of launch.

There will be plenty of people waiting for a similar thing to happen with the PS3. It will be interesting to see what happens when it doesn't.

This is only the second time in my adult years that I won't be lining up at launch for a major console (sorry Wii, I'll get one, but not just yet).

At $1000 bucks, I just don't need it. I have a 360 and with Live and all, I just don't think I've got time to play another console.

I have to squeeze my life in somewhere.

The PS3 will be marketed as a complete entertainment system in Australia not just a games machine, so they might be able to suck people in that way. Unless people are desperate I'd wait for the price drop. Sony says it won't but if no-one is buying you can bet they will.

Ominously XBox sold OK in Australia but still got thrashed by the much cheaper and older PS2 and sales are declining and Wii sold more in 3 weeks than XBox in 3 months, so price is a big, big factor. Still the delayed launch of the PS3 may actually work in their favour as they will not be going head to head against a newly launched console.

Didn't Motorstorm get pushed back to May?

Is Oblivion being published by Ubisoft in the land down under?

Why wouldn't 2K Games and Take-Two be publishing it? Perhaps they just think the real money for antipodeans lies in basketball and ice hockey...

Yeah, they just eat stuff up...

Rioracer916 hit the nail on the head: "for me is the magic $500 mark, anything between $500 and $1k is practically $1K in my eyes"

Yup. I can swing a purchase that large, but I have to weigh the cost like so:

dollars + amount of grief from girlfriend regarding how unnecessary the purchase is = cost

So if it's something like a new TV, that she will use and enjoy, then I can sneak a 1k item in there. A game console on the other hand ... Well, she likes the DS, but that's smaller and sexier than the PS3.

rioracer says:
"Hah, to think I though Xbox 360 was too pricey 2 years ago...talk about putting things in perspective."

It is.
No game system should EVER cost over $300 USD.
At the end of the day these things are all toys.
High-tech toys? Yes. But still just toys.

John Lucas

It is.
No game system should EVER cost over $300 USD.
At the end of the day these things are all toys.
High-tech toys? Yes. But still just toys.

John Lucas

I see price drops being a big issue in the next 2 years. As far as I'm concerned this consumer views the Xbox 360 and PS3 as perfectly substitutable luxury goods.

Even with the persistent rantings of exclusives by certain interest groups around here it won't make much of a difference. The vast marjority of decent games will hit both systems at one point or another. Software companies aren't philanthropic oraganizations, and costs related to making games for the Xbox 360 and PS3 are considerably higher than last generation.

Not that I'm a sequel fan, but If I was Joe Consumer and I heard GTA4 was just released I'd seriously question why I should pay more money to play the game on a system which appears just as good as the cheaper one. Especially since HDTV awareness/ adoption among non-techies is fairly limited.

This is where Microsoft (and partially Nintendo) have the advantage. Joe consumer didn't buy a PS2 because it was $300 and hot technology, he bought it because it was $149.99 and had some hot games out already, by that time Xbox was "hot technology". Contrary to some of the technophile's opinions on the web, normal people don't like spending lots of money on electronics, unless the NEED to.

I don't doubt Microsoft and Nintendo's ability to create mass market prices in order to generate mass market sales. The hardware prices are under control and falling from a cost accounting standpoint. I do however question how Sony is going to cut the price of he PS3 before the competition hits crtical mass market appeal price-wise.

Sony is going to have a much harder time playing catch up price-wise if the whole "PS3 is more powerful so we command a premium" rhetoric doesn't pan out like they planned.

You said it all rioracer916.
Totally agree with everything you said.

It seems Sony has missed the point of what this is all about in the midst of all this PS3 business. 'Too big for their britches' syndrome I suppose.

John Lucas