[News] PS3 60GB Pricecut Confirmed

The $100 "price drop" (although it's more like replacing the 20GB, Wifi/cardreaderless PS3 with the 60GB one) really doesn't sound too bad. I don't see much use for the 80GB system though, you can get a standard laptop harddrive that has over double that for under $100. Packing in Motorstorm seems like something they should do for all the bundles instead of just the $600 one. Still, $500 for what the system has seems pretty fair.

However, I'm kinda hoping this means the 20GB variants will turn up cheap. My local Pawn America had used 60GB PS3s for $500 already before this price drop, so if they drop the used 60GB PS3 price down to $420 or so, I could easily see them having a 20GB model for around $350. I could definitely go for that.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Miles

Well, not less than 8 months after launch. I'm sure if most people knew it would drop in less than year they would have waited to buy one. But when your system sells so bad I guess you do what you gotta do. Maybe they were waiting for E3 to do the price drop just because they have an amazing line-up of games to show off.

I do feel sorry for my friend who just bought a PS3 2 months ago. He could have saved 100 dollars.

Actually, 8 months has been pretty standard for console price drops in recent generations. The PS1, Dreamcast, Gamecube, and Xbox all saw $50 or $100 price drops around then, and with all the complaints about the PS3 because of its price, it was pretty much inevitable that a price drop would happen sometime soon. In general, the systems released later in a generation will have price drops pretty quickly. But again, this is more like replacing the 20GB system with the 60GB one rather than a "universal" drop in price.

Now if only Microsoft would follow suit and discontinue the 360 Core and replace it with the Premium...

There's nowhere I can't reach.