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No Euro PS3 price cut as Sony doesn't want to annoy anyone

Posted on Tuesday, 24 July 2007 by Speed, source: Threespeech
Over at Sony's "semi-official" gaming blog, Threespeech is an interview with SCEE head David Reeves who states that Europe isn't getting any PS3 price cuts because Sony doesn't want to annoy anyone

If you’re a consumer — and we introduced the PS3 in March for £425 or 599 Euros – let’s say you bought one at the end of April and have been using it, playing Resistance: Fall of Man and MotorStorm. We’ve only been on the market for three and a bit months. Our thought process was: “Wait a minute – we’re actually not doing too badly – we’re not selling as well as Wii or DS – but seasonality-wise, compared to, say, PS2 at the same time we launched it in 2001, we’re actually doing quite well on a regional level”. It’s exactly the target that we sought. July is not really a gamers’ month unless you get a big, big title. So we thought if we reduced the price, we’d annoy a lot of people. We did think about it, but we also felt that it wasn’t doing that badly. In the US, they’ve been going for more than six months, so they took the decision that going down in price was a better thing to do than a value pack.

I wonder what they're going to say in a couple of months. "We won't lower the price because we don't want to annoy the people we ripped off with the Value Pack" ?
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6 Comment(s)

derf26 (old)

derf26 (old)

Of course THAT'S the reason. Far too convenient if you ask me. Anyone who actually falls for this shit deserves to be ripped off anyway.

Oh and I think it's quite telling how they only mention two games.
Of course THAT'S the reason. Far too convenient if you ask me. Anyone who actually falls for this shit deserves to be ripped off anyway. Oh and I think it's quite telling how they only mention two games.
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Posted on 13:22, July 24th 2007
Anonymous

Anonymous

LOL @ SONY! Arrogant and greedy and take us for idiots. Nice move. You know what? I will never buy one anyway so cuting the price down will not annoy me:)
LOL @ SONY! Arrogant and greedy and take us for idiots. Nice move. You know what? I will never buy one anyway so cuting the price down will not annoy me:)
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Posted on 16:44, July 24th 2007
Anonymous

Anonymous

yep boycott sony,seems there not the respected comany they once were,all there products suck overpriced compared to the competition,heres a shovel sony dig ur own grave
yep boycott sony,seems there not the respected comany they once were,all there products suck overpriced compared to the competition,heres a shovel sony dig ur own grave
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Posted on 18:17, July 24th 2007
DoubleD

DoubleD

One wonders why they keep on making (pricing &) communication mistakes over and over again...
One wonders why they keep on making (pricing &) communication mistakes over and over again...
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Posted on 18:52, July 24th 2007
Anonymous

Anonymous

wtf compare to the PS2 sales of yesteryears, you should look to your competition sales, you'd think sony would be more ambitious with the PS3!
wtf compare to the PS2 sales of yesteryears, you should look to your competition sales, you'd think sony would be more ambitious with the PS3!
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Posted on 21:25, July 24th 2007
derf26 (old)

derf26 (old)

One wonders why they keep on making (pricing &) communication mistakes over and over again...


It allows them to maintain an overpriced PS3 in Europe while still blaming it on anything and everything except their own pricing policy.
[quote]One wonders why they keep on making (pricing &) communication mistakes over and over again...[/quote] It allows them to maintain an overpriced PS3 in Europe while still blaming it on anything and everything except their own pricing policy.
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Posted on 09:11, July 25th 2007
 

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