Comments on: European 360 price cuts announced

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:47:50 +0000

You’re right, GTA IV will be massive, and I think it’ll also tip very heavily towards 360 in the UK. Given that PS3’s out-pacing 360 across most of the other Euro countries, though, I think you may see that European sales for the PS3 version tell a very different story than the UK numbers. The reason I don’t think Sony will cut is that on a European level they actually don’t need to in order to maintain competitiveness against MS in Europe right now. In the UK, though, as you point out, 360 is definitely in a good place.

By: Chinster

Chinster — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:43:01 +0000

GAME in Microsoft’s pocket shocker!

Make a good headline that Pat?

By: Blerk

Blerk — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:40:55 +0000

You’re probably right. But that GTA launch could be a very big bragging point for Microsoft. Do they really want to take that risk?

I was in GAME at the weekend and they had a huge GTA4 display at the front of the store which was 100% 360 boxes. There was a single box for the PS3 version on the PS3 shelf. No guesses which version is getting pushed there, and that was *before* the price cut.

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:35:54 +0000

I don’t reckon they care enough to do it. I still firmly believe we won’t see them make a very aggressive move until Q3. It’s worth remembering that PS3’s outselling 360 across most of Europe. I think they can wait before they attack 360 full-on in the UK.

By: morriss

morriss — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:34:57 +0000

…and they’ll still end up selling more in the long run.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:33:14 +0000

£249 for the 40gb PS3 would seem like the obvious move right now. Undercut the Elite by a few quid and point out the extra features you get over and above the Premium for your extra £50.

But this is Sony. No doubt it’ll take them six months to decide what to do.

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:30:59 +0000

£190 for the Premium pack is hard to refuse, I reckon, and you’re right, PS3 looks very expensive in comparison now. I really was hoping for an MGS4 pack: GT5:P just isn’t big enough to make the magic happen for PS3 right now, I reckon.

And you’re right, yep: sub-£200 is when PS2 really accelerated in Europe.

By: Killerbee

Killerbee — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:27:24 +0000

At last!

Great prices - especially getting the Premium in under £200. IIRC that’s about the price point that the PS2 really took off - I can see this doing great trade over the next few months.

It will be interesting to see how Sony respond (if they do) because frankly, the £299 Gran Turismo Prologue pack is going to look a bit sad and pathetic if you can get an Elite and a full price game (or two) for the same outlay.

By: Chinster

Chinster — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:22:41 +0000

Shirley you mean they’ll be chewing on 360’s? With the Wii for dessert?

/lives on planet Zorg

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:21:50 +0000

I still haven’t seen No More Heroes working. I can’t see it doing anything significant in terms of sales, especially now 360’s cheaper than a bag of very cheap chips.

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:19:59 +0000

Those are some serious fucking rats. That’s what it’ll be like when Sony does the deed. Million of them, all chewing on PS3s.

By: morriss

morriss — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:09:50 +0000

Nintendo are the best developers in the world apparently.

Anyway, hopefully No More Heroes should get my Wii some attention over and above the crappy code I’m forced to review.

By: Chinster

Chinster — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:06:07 +0000

Rats in KFC. Best rat vid I could find at short notice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su0U37w2tws

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:05:08 +0000

“Wii” jokes will never be unfunny

By: Chinster

Chinster — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:03:26 +0000

A drop of Wii?

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:02:08 +0000

@chins - Me either. Bit of a shame, really. And they still can’t make enough of them. You won’t be seeing a Wii drop any time soon.

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:01:09 +0000

Remember those videos of people rioting in Paris when Sony launched PS2? It’ll be like that

By: Chinster

Chinster — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:00:41 +0000

I haven’t played my wii since Mario Galaxy came out. That’s neither here nor there but I wanted to tell someone about it, it’s quite a burden to carry around so I wanted to share the load.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:59:38 +0000

Links to videos of rats attacking a corpse, pls!

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:57:49 +0000

They’ll get a quick hit out of it, definitely. The important things to watch will be whether or not it makes a difference in Europe and how GTA IV sales split between 360 and PS3.

By: morriss

morriss — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:56:11 +0000

Be interesting to see sales figures for April.

By: Chinster

Chinster — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:55:50 +0000

Cynic! Oh……

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:55:27 +0000

299 euros for a PS3 and it’ll be like watching rats attack a corpse. Not that I know what that looks like, but you know what I mean.

By: Chinster

Chinster — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:54:26 +0000

A PS3 price drop would really put the cat amongst the pigeons.

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:51:28 +0000

I just don’t know if it’ll make a difference in the rest of Europe. Surely they’ll all be waiting for a PS3 drop now?

By: Chinster

Chinster — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:49:19 +0000

My guess is they’ll outdo the Halo 3 launch. Not that it will help, price cuts are always an admission of defeat. Unless it’s from Sony heheh

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:46:44 +0000

I’ll be interested to see how heavily they market this in conjunction with the GTA launch.

By: Chinster

Chinster — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:46:30 +0000

Yeah, altogether now, he’s a …..

PILLOCK!

Just kidding bro

By: Blerk

Blerk — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:46:23 +0000

Wow! Didn’t see that coming!

These are nice prices, though. Thumbs up to Microsoft, middle fingers up to Sony.

By: Syrok

Syrok — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:45:55 +0000

That’s what you get when you trade in a superb game.