Gaming Forums => General Gaming => Topic started by: Fish on October 10, 2003, 06:42:23 AM
Title: PS2 drops to 99.99$?
Post by: Fish on October 10, 2003, 06:42:23 AM
According to GC Advanced, They know some Dude in Target who found out Sony is going to drop PS2 price to 99.99 next month, not exactly the most reliable source, but stranger things have happened.
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Post by: the_zombie_luke on October 10, 2003, 08:15:17 AM
Sony doesn't have to do anything now. They are still selling PS2's pretty fast so they don't need to do this. I hope they do. Castlevania looks very nice. .)
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Post by: Koopa Troopa on October 10, 2003, 08:57:54 AM
I know dudes from Target to. If they could know any less about everything I'd be surprised. Besides, Sony has been clawing for money (i.e. the PlayComputerStation 2)
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Post by: ThePerm on October 10, 2003, 09:33:32 AM
Sony doesn't need to lower their price to 99. If sony did M$ would follow suit. Thier winning this generation by 30 million consoles?
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Post by: manunited4eva22 on October 10, 2003, 12:25:49 PM
Hmm lets think about this. Gamecube has outsold it for what a week? It still can hold its own at the higher price.
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Post by: S-U-P-E-R on October 10, 2003, 12:47:22 PM
I'd wager that Target would just be trying to out-guess the console companies as per usual. GameStop and alla them had $150 PS2 and XBOX banners printed up at e3, and boy golly were those useless when they only dropped to 180.
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Post by: kennyb27 on October 10, 2003, 01:53:33 PM
Last month, Playstation Magazine said it would drop to $150 by the time that magazine hit newstands. Interesting isn't it?
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Post by: S-U-P-E-R on October 10, 2003, 06:22:55 PM
Everybody is just f'n guessing anymore, because the game biz is now an unpredictable bizarro world
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Post by: mouse_clicker on October 11, 2003, 10:26:09 AM
Sony's still losing money selling the PS2 at $180, right? I really doubt they'd want to lose even more money cutting the price almost in half. Nintendo could afford it, and it's really paying off.
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Post by: The All Knowing Lung on October 12, 2003, 07:22:43 AM
Quote Originally posted by: Fish According to GC Advanced, They know some Dude in Target who found out Sony is going to drop PS2 price to 99.99 next month, not exactly the most reliable source, but stranger things have happened.
Even at $99, it would still be overpriced
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Post by: Dirk Temporo on October 15, 2003, 04:41:44 PM
Yay? They're only doing it because GCN has started to outsell it.
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Post by: honda_insightful on October 16, 2003, 04:10:18 AM
I don't think Sony cares. They are ~40 million consoles ahead of either the Cube or the Box. Even if the Cube sold at #1 for the next two years, they'd never catch up and remove the "most sold 128-bit console" award from the PS2.
Anyway, I predict that Sony will drop the price to ~$150 just before Christmas. They don't need to go any lower.
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Post by: Celebi on October 16, 2003, 07:43:52 AM
Well about the PS2 price cut,its may be possible because Sony has now been able to shrink and combine the EE and GS into a single processor utilizing a 0.09micron technology.It runs at less than 1/3 the power needed for current PS2 batches with less heat as well.
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Post by: Syl on October 16, 2003, 06:08:14 PM
wait... PS2 for 99 = low enough that I could pay 200 on DDR pads and then I'd be able to DDR in style *drools* I don't want Donkey Konga, I want good ol' DDR!! Drop the price sony, Its the only physical work I'll ever do.
