PS3 Slim “prices expected to start at around £260″

I want a video stream for Cologne, dammit

The big brick with 80GB or the base HD (20GB?) thats jacked slim for more money or older version hmm which one will people go for? THats a hard choice, slim version for 300 or “brick” with the same features for 200..

Sony been smoking some wonky stuff

Those HDD sizes don’t make any sense at all.

Yeah, looks ropey to me. And it’s certainly not what I’ve heard.

The HD sizes, I mean.

They can’t really go cheaper than that considering that the PSP will cost around 250, can say? Would be strange to have handheld that actually cost more than a console.

Will these bombs be megatons? I like megatons.

If it costs more than £199.99 then I cant imagine it having much of an impact, nothing earth shattering anyway.

There’s no way they’ll cut the price to £199. It’s too much of a cut for them to absorb. I don’t think £260 is low enough either though… hell, lots of people bought their existing PS3 for less than that.

£260 with GT5 bundled might push some numbers though.

Any word on ps2 back compatibility for the slims?

There’s the patents that have shown up recently discussing EE / GS emulation… but nothing concrete.

It does highlight just how wrong the PSP Go pricing is. If they’d wanted to slap a price tag like that on a new PSP, then they should have delivered a PSP2, not a stripped down PSP.

I’ll bet pounds to pence that it bombs like a bastard on release, and it’s quickly brought more inline with current PSP prices.

The British price cut for the PS3 is going to be tough though, because the euro and pound are so close these days, I think you’re going to be looking at a $/€299 price, with a £259.99 price, and I’d expect much bigger hard drives to be included.

hahaha No its Slim thus less parts they won’t put the part that allowed backwards compatiability on a smaller machine..unless they announce that emulation patent

Sod off with multiple SKUs! If they were decently different it’d be one thing, but the saving on the cost of a 40gb HDD to a 80gb HDD (Or even a 20gb HDD to a 160gb HDD) is surely in the pennies?!

Just do a 160gb HDD and have done with it.

Even MS are rumoured to be phasing out the “premium/pro” SKU in favour of the Elite.

£249.99 with a couple of titles thrown in and Sony might have got some sales, more than that and I can’t see it doing anything.

“Will these bombs be megatons? I like megatons.”

Nah.

Not even giga.

Triga.

*doesn’t know what he’s talking about*

@14, For 3.5″ drives there isn’t much difference (In price) between a tb and 500mb, but I believe the ps3 takes 2.5″, which are more expensive, and if the slim introduces SSD’s then those are tres expensive.

There’s no way in hell the slim is getting any sort of SSD. Well, unless they want to sell them for £350.

Who knows with Sony.

@Freedoms_Stain: Even for 2.5″ HDD’s I can’t see there being a huge price difference in production of 20gb and 160gb… And I agree with Jonarob; SSDs aren’t even on the cards.

So the PS3 is an “old brick” now is it??

Interesting…

What is an SSD?

Memory card slots?

I am so confused. You are all talking gibberish.

And I swear to you I bought my PS3 for Blockbuster at £300 about 3 monthsn after launch. It was a deal.

EDIT: Wishful thinking xD

The PS2 slim rocks my socks and underpants. Infact, I don’t even want to upgrade from it.

/plays persona

@Pud: Google you nub.

Solid state drive.

Oh!

Can you put a SSD into the existing PS3s? Would it make a difference heat/speed/noise-wise?

Still means nothing to me!!!!

It would make a small difference to load times, but anything else would be negligible. If you can hear your PS3 HDD then something is wrong with it.

@Pud: Educate theyself: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531

Google is awesome…. It literally took less than 10 seconds xD

i already have a perfectly good PS3 at home… so why on earth do i want a slim? Why, cos I just love new gadgets and toys… can i justify buying a new one.. probably not.. but i still want one.. so who knows

OK!

I like the way you just managed to have a conversation with yourself there Dannybuoy.

I’m not sure about the way you didn’t manage to come to a final decision between the err… ‘two’ of you though.

If these are in fact the prices, then the converstion for north america makes this price drop dumb as ever. For us that works out to be $360 plus tax on the starting price of £199 or $471 plus tax on the price of £260 (and that could be for the 40GB model?).

Nah, the UK gets taxed VAT on electricals and the standard ‘SUCKERZ!’ premium.

Usually, US prices to UK just require the swap of a dollar sign into a pound sign for these kind of goods.

G1GA: But the quoted US prices are without tax, where as the UK ones are with tax.

It’s a fairly simple calculation…

UK Price: £299, minus VAT (£39) = £260 ($440)
US Price: $399 (£235) plus VAT (£35) = £270

It’s not a huge difference, but it is a difference.

@ Lutz: Oh right.

Yeah, see. VAT + the premium.

Um… Psycho, you can’t really compare the £260 and £265 (£260 UK compares to £235 US)
Plus tax rates vary from state to state.

@PT
235 + 35 = 270

Was a bit confused as $399 + VAT should have bought it up to ~$460 and wondered why that was only a £5 difference from $440.

I believe that the comparison is between the $399 and $460 and the £270 and the £299.

Or even worse, £235($399) without VAT managing to get to £299($460) after.

G1GA; you’re out.

OK, from the top.

UK price is £300. That’s gross. American is $400. That’s net.

UK net price is £260.87 (VAT at 15%) or £255.32 (VAT at 17.5% as it will be 01/01/10)

US net price is $400, which is £235.29 (Exchange rate of £1:$1.70) OR! $400, which is £266.67 at the more tradtional (read: before this economic boom) exchange rate of £1:$1.50

So, taxes aside, the US model is about £25.58 cheaper today, and if you twist the figures enough to say, 1990′s figures, the US version is more expensive by about £11.32

UK tax is a straight 15%. US tax can vary from about 5% to 20% IIRC, but it’s been a long time since I looked at US tax rates across the states.

We all got that? Good.

lolwut! 1990?

You’re not a tax man, are you?? Hehe…

All I was saying is that in real terms, I pay more for my electrical goods than the Americans do.

And according to a recent survey, people in equivilant jobs over there earn, on average, more than me too.

Rip off Britian, I say!

No, I’m not a tax man, but you can be sure that the bods at Sony will be using an exchange rate in their favour rather than a realistic one. All companies do.

Debenhams in the UK labels all clothes in £ and €, and the exchange rate is about 1.55, much higher than it’s ever been.

In real terms, you probably pay about the same.

But yeah, there’s much more that we pay more for in the UK. Fuel/Power being a prime example.

Well, the Americans have to live in the States. It all equals out. ^.^

OH! OK?

Yeah I know, it wasn’t a dig at Sony. Almost everything electrical is more expensive over here than it is over there.

HDTV’s, High end PC’s, consoles, the lot.

The other day I was looking at gaming laptops, and I could hardly believe that you can get practically maxed out, high end ones for about $1,500 in the US, but the equivilant is about £1,400 over here.

It’s pretty obscene.

@DrDamn: Yeah, sorry I was just absent mindedly doing it whilst I was on the phone.