Japanese retailers slash PS3 prices
The Akibablog reports that in Japan, console sales for the PS3 have slowed significantly. (Kotaku would say not cooled, more like frozen, but people would start flaming here so we won’t say that.) It seems that gamers have decided to wait for the prices to either drop, or for actual games to come out.
The Akibablog says that the retailers are reportedly slicing 20 percent off the 20GB PS3. The 20GB version originally books at Â¥49,980 (US$ 412) but it is now being offered for Â¥39,980 (US$ 329) in a sale that should end in February. Kotaku reports that popular reasoning for not buying a PS3 in online message boards, say for example 2chan, range from “there are no games I want” to “video stores don’t rent Blu-ray movies.”
If you recall the first few weeks after the PS2 launch, despite the lack of a solid library of games, the console still sold well in Japan due to the DVD player.
To balance things out (it’s getting a bit too anti-PS3 here) we do have to note that some have pointed out that this essentially is a promotion from Don Quijote (the retailer) and they only had a few quantities. A commenter at Kotaku notes that they also had the deal at the Shibuya store but both stores were sold out of the promotional 20GB deal before it we even got to either store.
Via Akibablog
The Akibablog reports that in Japan, console sales for the PS3 have slowed significantly. (Kotaku would say not cooled, more like frozen, but people would start flaming here so we won’t say that.) It seems that gamers have decided to wait for the prices to either drop, or for actual games to come out.
The Akibablog says that the retailers are reportedly slicing 20 percent off the 20GB PS3. The 20GB version originally books at Â¥49,980 (US$ 412) but it is now being offered for Â¥39,980 (US$ 329) in a sale that should end in February. Kotaku reports that popular reasoning for not buying a PS3 in online message boards, say for example 2chan, range from “there are no games I want” to “video stores don’t rent Blu-ray movies.”
If you recall the first few weeks after the PS2 launch, despite the lack of a solid library of games, the console still sold well in Japan due to the DVD player.
To balance things out (it’s getting a bit too anti-PS3 here) we do have to note that some have pointed out that this essentially is a promotion from Don Quijote (the retailer) and they only had a few quantities. A commenter at Kotaku notes that they also had the deal at the Shibuya store but both stores were sold out of the promotional 20GB deal before it we even got to either store.
Via Akibablog