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Rumor: PS3 Price Cut; New 40GB Model; PS2 Price Cut for Holidays

Submitted by Paul Munn on September 10, 2007 – 5:00 pmComments

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A so-far-reliable source over at ArsTechnica has passed along what Sony’s pricing and product strategy might look like for this holiday season for both the PS3 and PS2. The rumored changes include not just the 80GB version of the system falling to $499 — no surprise there — but a brand new 40GB version of the system to retail at $399. The same source notes that the PS2 could get a price drop to $99. The PS3 models may not debut with nothing to play or watch on them, either. A Blu-ray copy of Spider-Man 3 might be bundled with both PS3 models.

If the 40GB rumor is true, this would be the fourth version of the PS3 out in the wild. As for the PS2 price cut, even at that price I’m sure it’s making money for the company running in last place in the console race. The biggest question for me is what will differ between the 40GB and 80GB PS3’s. I’m hoping it’s only hard drive space, but stripping out the flash memory reader wouldn’t be a grievous loss considering the machine can read and write to USB data drives extremely easily.

Via EvilAvatar who linked to ArsTechnica.

  • morphiend
    Maybe the 80 will finally get a HDMI cable packed in. :)

    I bet the 80 will still keep MotorStorm and the 40 won't get it. And I bet the 40 came about because Sony has a stockpile of them left from a Vaio laptop factory and decided to use them at no purchase cost for the video game division.
  • James: You'd think that with economies of scale they'd get the HDD's for dirt cheap, but I could see a situation where they have to sign a contract for drives at a price that won't change per year or something like that.

    That said, 40gb drives are basically retail nonstarters these days. Nobody I know would buy an aftermarket hard drive for a laptop that was just 40gb, so maybe they're getting a killer deal on them for the new model?

    It's all guesswork, but I agree that it certainly does seem strange that the HDD right now looks like the only difference.
  • I think its cheaper to make 40gb drives, thats why sony is going there. It looks like sony wants to have 2 types of PS3's on the market at all times. I think its a good idea, $400 is a really good price for that the ps3 does, even if it's just 40gb
  • Sifer2400
    lol i dont know about average consumers but i'd never buy a lesser version if there is a better version in the market.
  • James (Aeropause)
    Is it really necessary to drop the Hard Drive size down at this point? It's obviously not the hard drive technology that increases the cost of this thing.
  • Bill Gates
    Is it technically a price cut if retailers are simply dumping overstocked PS3's into the bargain bins?
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