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Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 05, 2006 21:19
In a recent interview with a radio show called something like 1 europe he claimed it will be expensvie for a gaming console,but cheap for what its reall is,a plattform who also can play blu-ray in HD.

He also stated that more then 14 million psp was produced now.

500 euro=4600 kr....
I bought nmy 360 for 3700,however it costed 4000 at launch here.
And i my bought my xbox for 5000 O_o

Well the price is so-so,i rather wiat some month then before buying a ps3...
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 05, 2006 21:25
500 Euro is $613 or £350.


Anyway, ...link?
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 05, 2006 21:37
Link,look all over the web,search for the news,i found it at jeauxfrance.com though ,however my friends when i told it to them,said they knew it too.
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" EDIT" EXCUSE ME,IN THE FORK/AROUND 500 EURO,WHICH MEANS IT WILL BE MORE THEN 500,AND WITH SWEDISH TAX we might hit 5000-5400 kr...
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 05, 2006 21:51
Nothing official has been announced, and i can' t find any traces of what you' re talking about.

The actual final, set in stone price is unlikely to be announced before E3.

The price itself doesn' t really bother me, ...i mean, i' d pay £450 (641 Euro or $788), and that' s for a machine i really don' t care much about right now. I want to know the price because then i can gauge an idea as to how well it will see in the different territories.
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 05, 2006 21:59
I' m not lying,he said it in a interview.

http://www.jeux-france.com/news15148_la-playstation-3-autour-de-500-euros.aspx

http://www.gamefront.de/ look below and you find this...

Europa: PS3-Preis etwa bei Euro 499 bis Euro 599

05.04.06 - George Fornay, Präsident von Sony Computer Entertainment Frankreich, hat im Radio Europe 1 gestern Abend über den Preis der PlayStation3 gesprochen.

Wie PlayFrance schreibt, soll die Konsole laut Fornay in Europa im Preisbereich von Euro 499 bis Euro 599 liegen. Release: November 2006

http://www.playfrance.com/news/ps3-215296249-Infos-PlayStation-3-dans-la-fourchette-des-500-euros.aspx

Here is just some,so why does i give french links?
Cause this guy is vice president of europe,but president of sony in france,and if i got it right he did a interview with a french gaming magazine,and said it will cost around 500 euro for us.
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 05, 2006 22:16
Ok, for those that don' t speak French, allow me...


" During an interview granted to radio Europe 1, George Fornay, President of Sony Computer Entertainment France and Senior Vice-president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, confirmed that PlayStation 3, planned for worldwide release next November, will be available ' in the region of 500 euros' by specifying that it will be expensive for a video game console, but cheap for a Blu-ray player."


So, if this is true, then in Europe the machine will be available for around 500 Euro' s, which is £350 or $613.

The thing is though that a HDD will be needed for games, but they have yet to confirm that the console will actually ship with one.

My guess is that there will be two versions of the unit and this is the price of the cheaper, Blu-Ray focussed version, without the HDD and maybe even a couple of other things.

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 05, 2006 22:18
Well around 500...might be 550...
However he doesnt include taxes atleast not for scandinavia.
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 05, 2006 22:30
My point is that, if you have to buy the HDD separately, and maybe even a couple of other things, the price jumps drastically.

500 Euro' s for the console
146 Euro' s for 2 games
70 Euro' s for the HDD
20 Euro' s for the pad charger

Already that' s 736 Euro' s, without buying any Blu-Ray films and olny getting 2 games.

That converts to...$904 or £516, and some might think that' s too expensive. Personally i think that' s very cheap, and i know that Sony would be taking a big loss on every unit sold. It' s a risk.

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 05, 2006 22:36
Your right,i forgot about the games also :S

But majik,i have all FMV now,you know from ff7 cerbeus,the game thats supposed to be after ff7 ended...and its out in japan.

LOOK HERE...



We know some dev said they want Blu-ray for CGI that Square-enix loves...but look...



This was the best pic i could find in cgi with Cloud.

Now look how he look in real time in FF7 tech demo.





Now a lot of people think,well square-enix is a sony company,and ff13 will never come to 360.

But look at SNES,who was nintendos biggest lapdog?
Square,they have made games that was considered the best of their time,and sold millions,im talking about ff6 and CT,who become world wide hits.
And what did they do later? they even did a tech demo for N64 with FF6 characters.

Same as they did with ff7 for ps3 now,so what happend?
They thought n64 was gonna be expsnive to dev and release for and decied to go over to sony.

Ofc,cd' salso had more space for CGI O_O im not denying that,but,look and compare at real time and CGI at this day.
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 05, 2006 22:52
There are rumours floating around concerning a Square-Enix 360 exclusive title being announced at the Japanese 360 conference tomorrow.

That would be nice...

But what i' m more interested in is the rumoured VF5 360 port. It makes sense really since Tekken 6 will almost definately be shipping with PS3 at launch and i can' t see SEGA wanting to fight it out with Namco if they can avoid it, ...even if Virtua Fighter DOES stamp all over Tekken in every respect.

If both happen to be true, i' ll probably have a heart attack. 360 would defonately start selling in Japan!

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 02:05
Well the games will determine the outcome of the PS3 and the 360 in Japan. Not the price.
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 02:26
I thought that vf5 was going to be on the 360 anyway but thats probably based on everything iv' e been hearing about it. I hope it goes to the 360 though that would be sweet for sure.

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 02:54
As of yet VF5 hasn' t been confirmed for either console. I' m hoping it does end up on 360 though, since Tekken will difinately stay on PS3 and Soul Calibur 4 will be multi-platform again.

Anyhoo, it' s only 7 weeks or so until E3 (i can' t believe it' s that time again), and the announcements inch closer by the day.

If PS3 launches at £350 (i think £400 is more realistic) in the UK, it' ll likely sell out, but i don' t think it will do as well as the PS2 did in it' s first year, ...especially when you look at the games that will be out for 360 by then and take into account that launch titles are always overhyped.

I think £60 a game is possible too...

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 03:24
...slightly off topic, but just how well is 360 doing anyway?......

....we all know it' s having a hard time in japan, but what about America and Europe??.....

....does anyone have any figures about the number of units sold so far?... ..its been out for about a quarter now, yes?.......

....i would have expected to be reading articles which compare it to ex-box or PS2 in a similar time frame, about now.....
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 03:29
$600 eh?

Well, that cinches it. 360 this year, PS3 whenever.

Should Keep my quite busy until I actually have a desire to upgrade to Blu-Ray. I' m Quite happy with my current dvd' s.
Then again, by the time Blu-Ray is actually a movie market standard there will be better tech for it than the one in the PS3...so that' s pretty irrelevant IMO.

I really don' t see Blu-ray making a real impact on the games market this gen anyway. There' s more space yeah, but for what? I' m not a CG junkie.

I hope they release a non-BLu-ray version for the same price as the 360.

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 03:36
I honestly don' t see what sony has to gain by selling it at that price surly it will take them a very long time to recover for the loss?. However if thats the case it would be a bargin to those who opt to buy it. On the virtua fighter front i' m really hoping it goes to the 360 cos I think they need it plus it would mean I won' t have to get yet another console just to play a game. Oh and £60 games I hope it wont be that high cos I would definately be more comfortable buying 360 games then.

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 03:37

hope they release a non-BLu-ray version for the same price as the 360.


Wishful thinking.

Sony NEED to put Blu-ray into PS3 regardless. With UMD' s being dri=opped by Hollywood and HD-DVD making ground, they have to make as big an impact as possible.

It' s funny though, because one of the main reasons the console will be so expensive is down to Blu-Ray.

Some people say Microsoft were stupid not to include a next-gen drive, but it' s turning out to be a smart move. The only people who would benefit from Blu-Ray being used in PS3 anyway are the people who have already bought a HDTV. Because if you don' t ave one, Blu-Ray will only look as good as standard DVD' s no matter what.

How many kids/teenagers/students do you think have HDTV' s?!

Blu-Ray is pointless for games!

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 03:41

The thing is though that a HDD will be needed for games, but they have yet to confirm that the console will actually ship with one.


They have confirmed it after GDC - it will ship with HDD and there' ll be only one version - that' s official for now but can change.

613$ is not accurate since most systems get their price 1:1 (US:Europe) in different currencies.

For instance 300$ would translate to 300 Euro.

If it' s around 500 in Europe I would suspect it will be around 500$ in US.

Anyway It' s just my speculation so don' t bother reading :)

If it is 500$ however and gives you 60GB HDD plus some awesome features (like free online play,Blue-ray) , then it' s definitely good news.


Blu-Ray is pointless for games!


I don' t think you ,or anyone else at this time, is in position to say something like that - we don' t know that yet.

Why was Itagaki Bitchin about lack of HD DVD in 360?
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 04:13

They have confirmed it after GDC - it will ship with HDD and there' ll be only one version


Link?! I can' t find the confirmation anywhere...


613$ is not accurate since most systems get their price 1:1 (US:Europe) in different currencies.


Mostly, virtually never when launching worldwide. 360 did though so it' s possible PS3 will do the same.


Why was Itagaki Bitchin about lack of HD DVD in 360?


Nobody knows. Team Ninja evidently haven' t mastered compression techniques yet because no other developers have had any problems.

Since you don' t own a 360, i can' t expect you to understand how vast Oblivion is!

You should also bear in mind that it' s FAR cheaper to develop on DVD9 than on Blu-Ray, so even if a game had to be put out on multiple discs for 360, the production costs would still be lower than for a single disc PS3 game.

So Blu-Ray IS pointless for games!

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 04:46
Like it or not, we are headed into the Next Generation, not the ' 1.5, I ant their yet' Generation, New Consoles and New Games. Dvd is old, Dvd is ok for the first wave of 360 games, but when times goes on, you will see things done on ps3 just becuase of the storage space on the blueray. Dvd is last Generation' s technogly and sure it might do for now, but 5 years down the line, i doubt you will have the same opinion. Each Gneration lasts 5+ years, do you really want to stay behind just to save yourself a 100 bucks?
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 05:15
In 5 years?!

You' re probably right, ...i won' t have the same opinion. But 5 years down the line we' ll be coming into ANOTHER generation of console gaming won' t we?!

How many games, over any format use 8.5GB of space?!

Now i have no doubt that more space WILL eventually be needed, but when a developer can quite easily put a game out on 2 DVD9 discs and still not incure the development/manufacture costs that they would with Blu-Ray, ...it seems stupid!


you will see things done on ps3 just becuase of the storage space on the blueray


Like what?!

1080p movies?! Please, ...who do you think will be able to take full advantage of that?! Sony' s casual-gamer userbase?!

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 05:27
$600, ouch... ' bout 500 more than I have at any given time. Still, if I can raise enough money by selling my organs on the black market or joining the French Foreign Legion for 3 years (which would make it a moot point anyway) I' m going for it. Just imagine what a good dev-team could do with 8.5 Gigs. We could get back to the days when adventure games were actually good. I' M LOOKING AT YOU LUCAS-ARTS!!

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 05:31
Aren' t they doing an Indiana Jones 4 tie-in?!

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 06:19
I' d LOVE to see Virtua Fighter 5 hit both the Xbox 360 and the PS3, but knowing the klowns at Sony they' ll probably scoop it up as an exclusive.. ARGH, have I reiterated my undying hatred for 3rd party exclusive games???? I hate em I tell ya, hate em!!
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 07:08
With any luck, tomorrows Japanese 360 conference will bring:

New " tales of" game
New Lunar game
Virtua Fighter 5
Phantasy Star Universe
Something new from Square
Winning Eleven from Konami

...or at least that' s what' s rumoured.

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 07:52
yeah,all we know is that sega,and square-enix and namco gonna show some stuff,however all these diffrent sources in japan and dev has said those titkles,well tomorrowe we know :))))

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 08:51

Aren' t they doing an Indiana Jones 4 tie-in?


" Indiana Jones and the Inguinal Hernia of Ultimate Peril"

It has a nice ring to it.

As for price, it' s a sign of our times when we' re wishing that a console would release at a $500 u.s. price tag. If it' s anything over 550, and i don' t have that kind of money by September, i' m pulling out, and cashing all my chips on the Revolution. Maybe a 360 too, if i have the money.

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 16:16
Well it' s early morning here in the UK but late afternoon in Japan and Microsoft' s Japanese conference is now over.

A couple of interesting announcements have been made, most interestingly by Square-Enix, ...but unfortunately no SEGA games were announced, meaning that Afterburner, House of the Dead 4 and Virtua Fighter are still unconfirmed for 360.

Anyway, here' s what HAS been announced:

- Square-Enix have announced a new, exclusive to 360 Final Fantasy game.

- Square-Enix' s Project Sylph will also be a 360 exclusive.

- Tri-Ace announced that they are currently working on new an action RPG, exclusive to 360.

- Namco announced the development of Culdcept Saga for Microsoft' s console.

- A video was shown of Gundam Online, ...it will make full use of Xbox Live.

- Microsoft announced the first game based on the Zegapain series.

- Konami, Hudson, Namco, SNK and D3 announced their support for Xbox Live Arcade.

- Demo of Mistwalker Studio’s next title, Lost Odyssey will hit this autumn and Sakaguchi announced that the much-touted RPG Blue Dragon will be launched this winter.

So, the most interesting thing for me, until we get more information on the games that have been announced is that SNK will be supporting Xbox Live Arcade, meaning i should hopefully get KoF98 and be able to kick ass online!

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 16:59

- Square-Enix have announced a new, exclusive to 360 Final Fantasy game.

- Square-Enix' s Project Sylph will also be a 360 exclusive.

- Tri-Ace announced that they are currently working on new an action RPG, exclusive to 360.



Vewwy Vewwy interesting.. I wonder if its too early for them to at least have some short teaser videos of those games at E3.
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 19:09
Well 360 certainly needs these games in the west as much as for Japan. My guess is that Microsoft will be pushing devs to have something ready to show at E3.

Perhaps some stuff will surface in the next few weeks...

EDIT: Some stuff has already surfaced...

Based on the new anime, Zegapain on 360 looks quite like Z.O.E...







Mobile Suit Gundam...







Also note that while you may not recognise the name Tri-Ace, you should definately recognise their games. Specifically Valkyrie Profile, Star Ocean and Radiata Stories, all of which were great. The fact that they' re doing an action RPG on 360 is very good news!

I' ll try to find more...
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 20:22
About HDD being confirmed it' s a rather old story from gamespot.
I don' t think you were looking but here just to enlighten you:

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/profile/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=m-100-24487352&user=CloneTrooper501


Since you don' t own a 360, i can' t expect you to understand how vast Oblivion is!

You should also bear in mind that it' s FAR cheaper to develop on DVD9 than on Blu-Ray, so even if a game had to be put out on multiple discs for 360, the production costs would still be lower than for a single disc PS3 game.


I' ve seen Zelda for N64 on aprox. 30MB cartridge so I kinda get the idea , but if that makes Blue Ray obsolete then your knowledge needs some upgrade.


So Blu-Ray IS pointless for games!


I guess you wouldn' t realize that more space is more (and better quality) sound samples , movies (for cool menu and game itself) and many more.There was once a company who thought like you do - Nintendo in the N64 era (better known as PSX era).And cost of any new format (DVD / Blue Ray and CD before them) is always high at the begining.

Itagaki knows more about games development than you do (at least that' s what I think since I haven' t heard of any game you' ve made lately...) , cause he actually does games.

Noone said that you can' t make a great game for 360 , but more space can make a better game with more variety in voices , sounds , textures , movies and extra features.

You say " why would someone care for 1080p movies if he' s got a 720 p TV?" he shouldn' t.

But someone with 1080p TV will be very happy and it' s really cool that they support it.

Add to this that the future is 1080p - your opinions have a very short expiration date.

The IGN story about 360 Media Briefing doesn' t have half of those things you' ve posted.Maybe they are slow , but I' d rather hear it from official sources.

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 20:52
You' re right the HDD story there is old news, ...pre-GDC in-fact. Since everything before GDC was pure speculation, and it wasn' t confirmed AT GDC, then how can you possibly say it' s definately shipping with the harddrive?!


I' ve seen Zelda for N64 on aprox. 30MB cartridge so I kinda get the idea , but if that makes Blue Ray obsolete then your knowledge needs some upgrade


Wow, cartridges, ...you don' t seem to get my point.

Blu-Ray cost' s more to both manufacture and develop for. Since Blu-Ray films will be more expensive (approx 15%) than DVD' s when they were first launched way back, it' s viable that the cost of PS3 games will be higher than evben 360' s.

Obviously the development cost is incurred by the developer/publisher, and since Sony will only be using their single-layer discs for PS3 games (with dual-layer discs being very pricey to produce), it will still be cheaper for a developer to put a game out on 360, on multiple discs using DVD9, than it will for them to produce a single disc PS3 game.

Why would a developer/producer want to have to pay more out to develop a game when they really don' t have to?!


The IGN story about 360 Media Briefing doesn' t have half of those things you' ve posted.Maybe they are slow , but I' d rather hear it from official sources.


An yet IGN weren' t even there. I' ll tell you what, i' ll even post some nice links that detail everything i' ve said...

http://news.spong.com/article/9859

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3149406

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=63769

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 21:22
I remember Sony saying there would only be one version of PS3 including a 40 GB HDD very recently. Didn' t they say that during that conference they had, whatever it was called. Maybe I should look this up.
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 21:34
They chose their words very carefully as always and said that a 60GB HDD would be available and would be required for playing games. What they didn' t say is that the console would ship WITH the HDD included.

That' s correct unless i' m daydreaming (which could be possible since everyone seems to think otherwise...).

If i' m wrong i will be sure to appologise!

EDIT: I found what i was looking for...


One of the first questions presented to the president of Sony' s Worldwide Studios was with regards to the system 60GB hard drive and whether or not it will actually be included with the system. Harrison answered that it will undoubtedly be a key component of the system and that developers should program titles assuming that the drive is there, but being that his role is more software-oriented than hardware, he couldn' t give a definitive answer as to whether or not it will be in the box. He says that we, and even he, should know for sure at this year' s E3.


http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/697/697725p1.aspx

So, what i said was spot on. Again.
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 06, 2006 22:26
It looks like Sony was just testing the water, ...again...

Sony' s spokespeople have addressed George Fornay' s comments about PS3' s price saying his comments had been " mistranslated or misunderstood" .

Nick Sharples (SCEE corporate communications director) has said...


“the discussion was actually focused on the relative value of PS3 as a Bluray Disc player. At no time did he suggest or indicate a specific price point or price range for PS3, and any reports that he did so are incorrect. He summarized by saying that PS3 would be expensive when one looked at the current price of a video games machine, at far below 500 Euros, but extremely good value when looking at the BD and HD technology inside,"


http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=15937

They were obviously testing the water to see what the reaction would be if they launched at such a high price.
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 07, 2006 02:50
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 07, 2006 04:19
ahem*... sure you do. [takes out Terry' s medication]
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 07, 2006 07:05

You' re right the HDD story there is old news, ...pre-GDC in-fact. Since everything before GDC was pure speculation


It was after GDC - and it was supposed to clarify all the confusion created on GDC

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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 07, 2006 08:36
If GDC ran from the 23rd until the 27th March, and that story was posted on the 17th and 20th of March on Yahoo' s UK videogames portal and Gamespot respectively, then it' s PRE-GDC, not post.

We haven' t had any confirmation about the HDD.
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RE: Vice-president of SCE says ps3 gonna cost 500 euro! - Apr 08, 2006 02:13
I guess I found the wrong link for it, but there was a story after GDC (on both gamespot and 1up)

You' ll see at E3 :)
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