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[Dyson Industries]

Get more people aboard the PS4 just in time for the exclusive Uncharted Collection, to set us for the big release of Uncharted 4 next year, mega.

But then again XB1 is supposed to have some great exclusives coming in 2016. Its gonna be interesting to see if Sony can hold momentum beyond first quarter for long

Yes, it certainly will be hard for Sony to hold their momentu- haha, I'm sorry. I couldn't keep a straight face. The 2:1 bollocking PS4 has handed Xbone thus far this generation will become an all-out bloodletting next year. The price drop is just the canary in the coalmine.

 

[Bluenoser]

That makes absolutly no sense. Your 50,000 CAD would convert to the following amounts in other currencies. Ok, so what.

Afghan Afghani:  2,471,750
   Iraqi Dinar: 45,577,000
  Mexican Peso:    634,000
   Swiss Franc:     37,000
Brazilian Real:    146,500

Simple fact is that from a Japanese company's point of view, 350 US dollars is worth 41,975.50 yen while 350 Canadian dollars is only worth 32,207 yen. To even things out the Canadian product has to cost more.

You're intentionally ignoring my point, so I'm not going to try again.

 

[bishoptl]

Should be $250. $350 is way too much, especially considering their exclusives output up to this point.

uh huh

 

[rokkerkory]

nice prices!!!!

 

[Dr. Kitty Muffins]

I think Sony should just go ahead and get publishers to put their 2016 games up on PSN to preorder early. At least by Christmas.

 

[Obliterator]

Oh I agree, no guarantee. Either way imo

Yep thats how I feel too. October is a total toss up now. I for sure favored Xbone winning the month before and by a decent margin. But with the price drop now could go either way

 

[super6646]

No doubt about it. Microsoft will have to drop the price in order to compete. But at least Sony finally did it!

 

[super6646]

You're intentionally ignoring my point, so I'm not going to try again.

Exactly. Canadian's aren't being paid more two years later. The product still cost's more for us then before. But of course that doesn't matter, right?

 

[Pathfinder]

No doubt about it. Microsoft will have to drop the price in order to compete. But at least Sony finally did it!

One should not doubt the power of Halo.

 

[super6646]

One should not doubt the power of Halo.

I always say that! Stop stealing XD. But if Microsoft wants to sell, they need to do it. No doubt the XB1 is profitable at 349, and with the 1 TB bundles carrying that weight,I see no reason for a 50$ price cut.

 

[pixelation]

Halo 5 will under-perform and PS4 will emerge victorious come this October... you all will see.

 

[Lothars]

One should not doubt the power of Halo.

Halo doesn't have close to the same power it once did, Is it a system seller? Yes absolutely is it as big of a seller as Halo 3 was. I doubt it will

 

[super6646]

Halo 5 will under-perform and PS4 will emerge victorious come this October... you all will see.

How so? There's tons of hype for the game, and its clear people want it. Lets see how much this price cut does first, you never know what'll happen. People have long forgotten about E3, so I'm sure it'll have less of an effect than many think. This isn't going to cause mass shortages of PS4's, its just to pick up sales because its clear its down YOY.

 

[_Ph03n1x_]

Are the bundles listed in the press release their holiday bundles? I'm just wondering if I should hold out for another bundle or jump on the destiny bundle tomorrow.

 

[Obliterator]

Halo 5 will under-perform and PS4 will emerge victorious come this October... you all will see.

Define under-perform please.

What do you expect October NPD for Halo to look like?

 

[EventHorizon]

You're intentionally ignoring my point, so I'm not going to try again.

What?!? I answered your point. You are bringing in other points of data that has no meaning when discussing the price of the PS4 in Canada which is why I posted a bunch of other meaningless conversion rates to show how nonsensical it is.

Think about what you are trying to say for a second. You are trying to say that the price of a Japanese product should take the exchange rate between the USD and CAD into account. If you want to do that then why ignore the exchange rate between the CAD and the Peso? Between the CAD and Iraqi Dinar? ...and so on. I hope you can see why such an analysis yields no useful results.

Your fundamental problem is that you've picked the CAD as the center of the universe for your analysis when Sony is a Japanese company. It's not how exchange fluctuations affect you, but how it affects Sony. On the other hand if you are going to complain about why other countries get a fixed rate while Canada is fixed, I've already pointed out that even with the variable price of the Canadian PS4, it is still lower than the US version. So if anyone should complain it should be the US customers.

Someone else also made the excellent point that if the Canadian price was made even lower it would hurt Sony's US revenue since it would start to become cheaper for US customers to import the PS4 from Canada which is right next door. That probably explains why Canada is treated differently than other countries.

 

[super6646]

Define under-perform please.

What do you expect October NPD for Halo to look like?

Number one guarentee'd. I can see around 3 million sales WW in a first week.

 

[Falchion]

Now to just convince my friend to grab one now.....

 

[super6646]

What?!? I answered your point. You are bringing in other points of data that has no meaning when discussing the price of the PS4 in Canada which is why I posted a bunch of other meaningless conversion rates to show how nonsensical it is.

Think about what you are trying to say for a second. You are trying to say that the price of a Japanese product should take the exchange rate between the USD and CAD into account. If you want to do that then why ignore the exchange rate between the CAD and the Peso? Between the CAD and Iraqi Dinar? ...and so on. I hope you can see why such an analysis yields no useful results.

Your fundamental problem is that you've picked the CAD as the center of the universe for your analysis when Sony is a Japanese company. It's not how exchange fluctuations affect you, but how it affects Sony. On the other hand if you are going to complain about why other countries get a fixed rate while Canada is fixed, I've already pointed out that even with the variable price of the Canadian PS4, it is still lower than the US version. So if anyone should complain it should be the US customers.

Someone else also made the excellent point that if the Canadian price was made even lower it would hurt Sony's US revenue since it would start to become cheaper for US customers to import the PS4 from Canada which is right next door. That probably explains why Canada is treated differently than other countries.

Look at the CADJPY chart. Its practically the same from 2 years ago. So why do we pay more? Sony is japanese, so it doesn't affect their bottom line. They're just using the USD (which is quite strong against EVERY currency right now) as an excuse to raise prices. You can even check a 2 year chart here: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=CADJPY=X#symbol=CADJPY=X;range=2y

Its clear we're getting screwed over. People here are acting as if the US is the center of the world...

 

[Skellig Gra]

Nice, I'd be more tempted if I wanted any of those bundle games. Black Friday should be very interesting.

 

[MrAstronaut]

I was actually going to go out and pick up a PS4 yesterday, I'm glad I decided to wait on it!

 

[tinfoilhatman]

Soooooo close.......I'm waiting for 4K BluRay and 300$ price tag come on Sony!

 

[pixelation]

How so? There's tons of hype for the game, and its clear people want it. Lets see how much this price cut does first, you never know what'll happen. People have long forgotten about E3, so I'm sure it'll have less of an effect than many think. This isn't going to cause mass shortages of PS4's, its just to pick up sales because its clear its down YOY.

Define under-perform please.

What do you expect October NPD for Halo to look like?

I don't know much about numbers, it's just that i believe that Halo isn't the same big assed franchise that it was before. And i think that Halo 5 will sell good, but not extraordinarily so.

 

[PeterLegend]

I'm sure there will be some MGS V or Fallout 4 retailer bundles as well packed in.

 

[Cthulhu_Steev]

Damn... so tempted to buy a PS4 now even though I'm broke AF right now.

Not a problem, PS4 doesn't do AF.

 

[Obliterator]

it's just that i believe that Halo isn't the same big assed franchise that it was before. And i think that Halo 5 will sell good, but not extraordinarily so.

Thats probably pretty fair tbh

I think reviews are a big deal for this game. After Halo 4 343 has to deliver

 

[Ryng_tolu]

Going for that 7-10k difference, eh? xD

Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool.

Withouth joke, i still think XB1 will win, but if before i thought the difference would be 50-100k, now is definitive gonna to be close...

Define under-perform please.

What do you expect October NPD for Halo to look like?

Gonna say 2-2.5 million.
Halo 3 sold 3,300,000 in 10 days, and Halo 4 sold the same in around 25 days.

Halo 5 has 4 days, so, seem reasonable for me.

 

[BasilZero]

I was waiting for this.

That UC Nathan Drake bundle will be mine

 

[Pathfinder]

Not a problem, PS4 doesn't do AF.

 

[jtkauff]

Now I'm torn as to whether I want to wait for a Black Friday deal or try and pick up the Uncharted bundle tomorrow at Target for the gift card. $349 + $50 gift card seems like it will more or less rival anything that Black Friday offers (but with less hassle).

 

[super6646]

Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool.

Withouth joke, i still think XB1 will win, but if before i thought the difference would be 50-100k, now is definitive gonna to be close...



Gonna say 2-2.5 million.

Halo 3 sold 3,300,000 in 10 days, and Halo 4 sold the same in around 27 days.

Halo 5 has 4 days, so, seem reasonable for me.

I'd say 2.5 million is about right. People still don't know what Halo can do.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

Whoop there it is.

 

[borghe]

the comparisons of Halo 3 are... odd.. I mean yeah Halo 3 also came out 2 years after launch, however:

Halo 3 followed up the quality and insane goodwill of Halo 2
360 was already firmly established as the (non-Wii) leading console

both of these are completely opposite now

 

[Ryng_tolu]

I'd say 2.5 million is about right. People still don't know what Halo can do.

definitively possible.

360 was already firmly established as the (non-Wii) leading console

The non-Wii hahahahahahahahahaha... 360 was not the leading.

 

[mysteriousmage09]

Sweet. Also lol @ the people a month or so ago stating no way would Sony do a price drop in the US at this time.

 

[borghe]

definitively possible.



The non-Wii haha.
360 was not the leading.

looking at who the systems were selling to, It'd be impossible to argue otherwise. The grandmas and soccer moms buying the bulk of the Wiis didn't really care about Halo/etc.

I also don't think anyone is questioning is H5 will sell in the 2M range. It's a question of how many systems is it going to push. Hence me pointing out the differences. In 2007 it was essentially "Of course I'm going to get a 360 because that's the system everyone is getting, and Halo 2 was friggin awesome"

In 2015, it's a bit different.

 

[pixelation]

I think reviews are a big deal for this game. After Halo 4 343 has to deliver

Agreed.

 

[Ishan]

Damn was hoping for a 100 dollar drop when the drop came ... But oh we'll ps4 is still selling too well stop buying it ppl ...

 

[Begaria]

Not a problem, PS4 doesn't do AF.

Snappy! I liked it.

 

[Dash_Riprock]

One should not doubt the power of Halo.

After Halo 4 and the MCC, we'll see...

 

[N.Domixis]

I heard the ps4 got a price cut!

 

[Bluenoser]

What?!? I answered your point. You are bringing in other points of data that has no meaning when discussing the price of the PS4 in Canada which is why I posted a bunch of other meaningless conversion rates to show how nonsensical it is.

Think about what you are trying to say for a second. You are trying to say that the price of a Japanese product should take the exchange rate between the USD and CAD into account. If you want to do that then why ignore the exchange rate between the CAD and the Peso? Between the CAD and Iraqi Dinar? ...and so on. I hope you can see why such an analysis yields no useful results.

Your fundamental problem is that you've picked the CAD as the center of the universe for your analysis when Sony is a Japanese company.It's not how exchange fluctuations affect you, but how it affects Sony. On the other hand if you are going to complain about why other countries get a fixed rate while Canada is fixed, I've already pointed out that even with the variable price of the Canadian PS4, it is still lower than the US version. So if anyone should complain it should be the US customers.

Someone else also made the excellent point that if the Canadian price was made even lower it would hurt Sony's US revenue since it would start to become cheaper for US customers to import the PS4 from Canada which is right next door. That probably explains why Canada is treated differently than other countries.

So if I'm understanding your argument, US people should be angry because Canadians should be paying more for a PS4? Fine, whatever man.

 

[LifeBrandRobot]

Oh, Canada. That price drop is insulting

 

[Jonboy]

They announced this overnight? Seems kind of weird. Was there a conference or something where they revealed it?

 

[zeopower6]

dat awkward Target early post lol

 

[Insane Metal]

Should be $250. $350 is way too much, especially considering their exclusives output up to this point.

Tell us how you really feel.

 

[demigod]

What a weak price cut. Should be $299 for 500GB and $349 for 1TB. Sony will have to be more aggressive on bundles this holiday to go neck and neck or even beat Xbone.

 

[DriftingSpirit]

What a weak price cut. Should be $299 for 500GB and $349 for 1TB. Sony will have to be more aggressive on bundles this holiday to go neck and neck or even beat Xbone.

Nah, it will move plenty of systems.

 

[Curufinwe]

What a weak price cut. Should be $299 for 500GB and $349 for 1TB. Sony will have to be more aggressive on bundles this holiday to go neck and neck or even beat Xbone.

They want to maximize profits, not units sold.

 

[Ricky_R]

I believe Halo will overcome this month, even with this price drop.