PS4 gets a new, lower price starting Friday: $349.99
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travisbickle
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Lol. Next you'll be telling Apple to reduce the price of its iPhones because the tech inside isn't worth the high price.
chronic_archaic
Member
I don't know about that sentiment. Wii U has them, well, almost exclusively. Xbox One at least has a solid exclusive holiday lineup and in terms of next year are just as stacked as Sony. So far, yes, XB1/PS4 have had mostly lackluster first party output. Not for much longer however.
As someone who is not from NA, why exactly? Just because it's more expensive than at launch? According to Google, nowadays 349 USD = 455 CAD.
Wouldn't pricing it at 399 CAD make lots of people from the US cross the border to buy one or is it not that easy?
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
And people didn't have to wait until PGW to find out ...
Velcro Fly
Member
$299 bundle on black friday is going to be sweet
Maybe I can be optimistic and hope for $279
Maybe I can be optimistic and hope for $279
jmaine_ph
Member
That is amazing!
Stereogatari
Banned
How much has it sold now? What is that selling rate like compared to other fastest and most selling consoles?
Mike Works
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As someone who bought a launch PS4 for $399 Canadian with a $100+ discount, I'm starting to wonder if the system will ever reach that price.
It's nice to win the price war as an early adopter for once!
It's nice to win the price war as an early adopter for once!
Chobel
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LOLOLOL!!!
EYEL1NER
Member
Fucking awesome! I'm buying one soon then.
I have been putting off buying one for a while. I work 72 hr weeks up here at a remote location and the Xbone that I bought for sub-$300 last Black Friday monopolizes my very limited free time. I know I need one for Street Fighter V though (and a ton of other games that I want to play, but mainly SFV), so I planned on buying one. I'm looking to leave this job and return to the U.S. soon though, so now I just need to decide if I want to buy one closer to the holidays when there might be some extra stuff bundled with one or buy it now and have it sent here to get it tax-free (but have to then turn around and ship it to the U.S.).
Nice, though. I might pick up the BlOps3 bundle for the bigger HDD right off the bat. I already purchased an external for my Xbone and have filled that up and am looking for a new one; more space on the PS4 would help me in postponing needing to buy a new HDD for that too for a while.
I have been putting off buying one for a while. I work 72 hr weeks up here at a remote location and the Xbone that I bought for sub-$300 last Black Friday monopolizes my very limited free time. I know I need one for Street Fighter V though (and a ton of other games that I want to play, but mainly SFV), so I planned on buying one. I'm looking to leave this job and return to the U.S. soon though, so now I just need to decide if I want to buy one closer to the holidays when there might be some extra stuff bundled with one or buy it now and have it sent here to get it tax-free (but have to then turn around and ship it to the U.S.).
Nice, though. I might pick up the BlOps3 bundle for the bigger HDD right off the bat. I already purchased an external for my Xbone and have filled that up and am looking for a new one; more space on the PS4 would help me in postponing needing to buy a new HDD for that too for a while.
jmaine_ph
Member
4/10
Are you sure $250 is low enough?
You need a passport to cross the border and the gas spent crossing would defeat the purpose of saving money in most places.
RedAssedApe
Banned
99 is the magic price point
Acquiescence
Member
Hmmm, I'm not sure if Microsoft have much hope to ketchup now.
Lol are you on medication?
Amazing you believe that exclusives dictate a console's price. Sony should hire you as their
Financial Officer.
It had shipped 25 million as of July 30th, probably at least 26/27 million by now.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
No, I'm saying they won't need exclusives to outsell their competition. If you honestly think there is nothing worth playing on PS4, that's another issue.
Katana_Strikes
Member
Finally.
At least they did announce it at a great time; on the verge on big games releasing and only a day away so it's minimum impact on sales.
At least they did announce it at a great time; on the verge on big games releasing and only a day away so it's minimum impact on sales.
brickarts295
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Somewhere today, there is one unlucky sob who bought a PS4 for $399 XD
Bornstellar
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Halo 5 will mustard the faithful.
CriterionDog
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I havent kept track of any other exclusives for PS4 for 2016, but I think MS has 2-3 exclusives delayed till that year. I just checked and Street Fighter V releases the same day as Uncharted 4... damn. They should at least spread it out by a week.
piccio_ssl
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SFV doesn't have a release date yet
hodayathink
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Sony delayed Uncharted and Ratchet and Clank into 2016. Plus Horizon and Street Fighter V in terms of large retail exclusives, because the downloadable exclusives supposedly don't count in this conversation.
RedAssedApe
Banned
not a big deal. most stores will just let you go back in and price match or return.
Well, a lot of gaffers were very confident that Sony would go 299 $ (or would have to go 299 $ to compete with MS in NA) while most ppl said that Sony would never throw away that profit from an already good selling console. Sales now going to rise but they still don't loose that much compared to a 100 $ pricedrop.
bloodyroarxx
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Also the cost of a PS4 would be over the one day allowable product to bring back over the border so you risk having to pay duty fees, and you don't get your money at par exchange rates there is always a markup. Oh and depending on where you crossed tax rates would be rough too. Ontario has a 13% tax rate where as Michigan has only 6%
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Pretty wild that I bought a PS4 at Canadian MSRP 2 years ago which was less than what it is now after the first official price drop.
Our dollar has fallen off a cliff tho. No hate to Sony.
Our dollar has fallen off a cliff tho. No hate to Sony.
GreatestHits
Member
Still waiting for hardware revision 3 and $299. And games. Need those too (exclusives)
Oh and Phil Spencer has got to be some kind of prophet, or genius
Oh and Phil Spencer has got to be some kind of prophet, or genius
Wow, is the CAD so shaky compared to USD?
Thought it would be pretty tighlyt related to USD courses.
Rex Griswold
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BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
It was close to USD for about a decade, but the last few years it's been shaky. It's back to what it was in the 90s when it averaged like 75% of the USD at best.
Though we actually benefit when our dollar sucks, because American businesses see a bargain and so they invest in us.
Lol
Jarod McChicken
Member
I still think two things are missing from SCEA's lineup : no Assassin's Creed bundle and no Black Ops III regular bundle. I think they are going a little too easy considering Microsoft's bullets. Good timing for the price cut, however.
Not really they have 3 Star Wars bundles one of which is now $350.