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Submitted by Jon Wilcox on February 25 2009 - 11:27

Despite recent comments from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, analysts are still predicting an immanent price drop...

The ongoing speculation of a PlayStation 3 price cut continued apace today, despite remarks from SCEE in recent weeks that there are no plans to drop the price of the console.

Sourced from a research note by analysts at Janco Partners and picked up Edge Online, the latest speculation is that a PS3 price drop could come before the end of June – though in the same report, Janco's Mike Hickey comments that an announcement could come 'within days'.

"If Sony does not cut the price of their console, we expect the continuation of languishing PS3 hardware sales and the potential for publishers to accelerate their reallocation of resources away from the PS3 console."

Despite the ongoing need for a price drop, an announcement hasn't yet been made from SCE's Destination PlayStation in the US. 

The Janco report also highlights the suggestion that Sony is working on a blu-ray-less PlayStation 3, which would cause a total tear in the brand's consumer base.  Blu-ray has been at the heart of the PS3 strategy, and with the prices of regular blu-ray players dropping, surely that's one component that will never be removed from the console.  Even a new PS3 with no optical drive and reliant on digitally downloaded titles wouldn't make sense as the internal hard disc would have to be huge, especially with games like Metal Gear Solid 4 taking full advantage of the blu-ray's 50GB storage capacity.




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By: Anonymous

Added:Sat 24th Oct 2009 22:58, Post No: 757

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By: Anonymous

Added:Sat 24th Oct 2009 22:56, Post No: 756

This post need to die so why don't you all shut the fack up and move on with life. the person who made this post has no life. He could be playing his game getting trophies or achivments. or you can get laid for once in a life time instead of posting stupied as sheet

 


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By: Anonymous

Added:Sat 24th Oct 2009 22:56, Post No: 756

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This post need to die so why don't you all shut the [#@!?] up and move on with life. the person who made this post has no life. He could be playing his game getting trophies or achivments. or you can get laid for once in a life time instead of posting stupied[#@!?][#@!?].


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By: Anonymous

Added:Sun 27th Sep 2009 11:09, Post No: 755

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but people have come to accept the rrod its been happening for years now unlike the yellow light of death thats not because of unreliable parts but due to a firmware update, is this an indication that sony had tried to overclock the ps3 and may have had a stable overclock but releasing a firmware update with the overclock included may have caused the trapped gas in the circuit boards.


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By: Anonymous

Added:Sun 27th Sep 2009 03:42, Post No: 754

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Actually we can still complain about the RROD because the xbox has a 54 percent failure rate compared to the PS3's 14.7

 

 

 

 

 

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By: Arc1991

Added:Mon 21st Sep 2009 18:54, Post No: 753

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good point, but who's to say the complaints wont keep coming in? could easily be a majour fault in the system. 

 

but i aint gettin called a fanboy again so ill stick with ur comment =) lets just hope sony can address the problem like microsoft did with the enw motherboards they were using


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By: Anonymous

Added:Mon 21st Sep 2009 01:40, Post No: 752

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It's really a low failure rate when compared to Xbox's 45% failure rate in the earlier generations of systems. 

A .5% deficiant rate is quite low and seems an acceptable rate for any product.  It seems that if Sony can compensate these very few failures with replacement systems ect. then this would be a very small problem.


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By: Anonymous

Added:Sun 20th Sep 2009 20:26, Post No: 751

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NFS SHIFT rulezz

www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=s8V8lFMQsZM
Need For Speed SHIFT - illegal racing in Prague


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By: Anonymous

Added:Sun 20th Sep 2009 20:22, Post No: 750

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NFS on PS3!Heaven on Earth

www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=s8V8lFMQsZM
Need For Speed SHIFT - illegal racing in Prague


By: Arc1991

Added:Sat 19th Sep 2009 15:24, Post No: 749

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hahaha PS3 has the "YROD" XD hehehe now none of yas can complain about the "RROD" =P


By: Arc1991

Added:Sat 19th Sep 2009 11:21, Post No: 748

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736 i mean, sorry my bad


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