Price cut for PS3 in the U.K. due to dissapointing sales

Published on April 6th, 2007

PS3 gets UK price cut -Pocket-Lint.co.uk: And the hits just keep on coming for Sony.

It might not be official from Sony, but retailers disappointed with second week sales following the launch of Sony’s next generation console have taken matters into there own hands and knocked £25 off the price of the console.

£25 = US$49.27

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# 1 Shane said, on April 6th, 2007 at 8:10 am

I come to dvorak.org for my daily dosage of gaming news.

# 2 @$tr0Gh0$t said, on April 6th, 2007 at 8:29 am

#1 (Shane), Do I detect a tone of sarcasm in your post?

# 3 Mike said, on April 6th, 2007 at 8:55 am

Spelling nazi says “disappointing”, not “Dissapointing”.

# 4 lokam turner said, on April 6th, 2007 at 9:26 am

and Sony said that the Americans are cheap bastards who were too cheap to pay the $599 for a premium ps3 – looks like we are not the only ones.

# 5 ChrisMac said, on April 6th, 2007 at 9:33 am

and for that price.. will it play a HD-DVD?

# 6 tallwookie said, on April 6th, 2007 at 10:14 am

Do I get Sony’s awesome RootKit tool with my purchase, or is that defined as an accessory?

# 7 JoaoPT said, on April 6th, 2007 at 10:41 am

I’m not a that much of a gamer, so I wouldn’t shell out the $$$ (or £££ or €€€) for the PS3, but I’ve seen it demoing on a 40 inch true HD lcd at my local supermarket and it looks absolutely utterly cool !!
OTOH the Xbox never raised my wow factor.
The reason that it won’t sell (at least here…) is because 599 Euros is a lot of cash. Some people don’t make that much a month here.
I remember the PS2 also. It came out at arounf 450 Euros. Nowdays you can get a “shrinked” one for 150.
Just wait a few months. Or a year. It will (undoubtedly…) surpass xbox and Wii sales combined…

Slow down cowboy… sheesh

# 8 Joe said, on April 7th, 2007 at 4:53 am

It’s still the cheapest Blu-ray player I can get and Blockbuster is now renting the Blu-rays so I’m off to get one…

# 9 Gasparrini said, on April 7th, 2007 at 5:45 am

Well, I have to say that I was yesterday at a Blockbuster (in the U.K.) and they hand signs indicating they had PS3 selling at £399 (I assume the most basic version). Blu-ray movies are also available for rent, albeit with very limited choices.

# 10 Angel H. Wong said, on April 7th, 2007 at 12:59 pm

Didn’t Sony announced that only the souped up version of the PS3 was going to be sold in the UK? (It was in a previous Dvorak blog post but I’m too lazy to look for it.)

# 11 CanadianGuy said, on April 7th, 2007 at 1:07 pm

This is ironic because the price of the PS3 has increased at most retailers in Canada to $700 from a launch price of $670.

# 12 pedro said, on April 8th, 2007 at 1:53 pm

#11 that’s because things go the other way in Canada, eh?

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