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Feeling Stupid? Trade Your 60GB PS3 For An 80GB At EB Games
5:00PM Logan Booker | Usually EB’s email specials are decent, but the latest one is a massive exception. Massive. Head to EB and hand over $200, four games and your “old” 60GB console and a brand-new 80GB can be yours!
This would be a fantastic deal, if it wasn’t so damn, damn awful. Scratch that… it’s devious. It works out to be ~$600 for 20GB… as long as you don’t mind losing backwards-compatibility, some USB slots and the card reader. Add to this the fact 20GB is worth $4, going by current HDD prices, and it’s basically one of the worst deals I’ve ever seen. The sad thing is people are going to buy into it.
Nothing more to say, really, except to warn your friends and family who are lucky enough to own a 60GB that the deal is horrible.
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60GB 360 Hits UK August 15th
3:40AM Mike Fahey | Microsoft has formally announced the coming of the 60GB Xbox 360 in the UK. This Friday the 15th, 20GB models will be being replaced with the larger models across the board, with the price remaining at the now rather modest £199.99. The announcement of course came with the obligatory hooray, go Xbox! statement. “No one device offers the depth and breadth of entertainment that Xbox 360 can deliver and we know consumers need increasingly more and more space to store the amazing digital entertainment content we provide” said regional director Neil Thompson “Now the Xbox 360 has triple the space to house all your entertainment needs at no extra cost”. Folks who purchased one of the 20GB systems recently are welcome to start kicking themselves just a little bit harder now. Xbox 360 60GB hits the shops [CVG] More »
Britons Race To Snap Up 60GB PS3s?
6:30PM Luke Plunkett | Last week, the 40GB PS3 was introduced into the British market. Last week, PS3 sales went up 178% in Britain. So, what, a stunning debut for the new 40GB model? No idea! Thanks to ChartTrack’s cunningly selective stat-releasing, we haven’t the foggiest how many of those sales were the new 40GB model, and how many were people going a little mad trying to secure one of the last backwards-compatible 60GB models. So your guess is as good as ours. But ours is pretty good. PS3 sales rocket by 178 per cent [MCV] More »
Why Are SCEA Quiet On The 40GB PS3?
1:20PM Luke Plunkett | Where the 40GB PS3 at, North America? Europe, Japan and Australia either have it or are getting it soon, so you just know you’re going to follow. And by all accounts you’ll be following on November 2. So where’s SCEA’s announcement? Nowhere, that’s where. See, the PAL territories were ready for this. Europe had already worked out a bundle deal to clear 60GB stocks, while Australia went one step further and cut off retail supply of the superceded model altogether. The US, on the other hand, has a problem. According to Michael “Once Was A Teenage Prophet” Pachter, there’s still a ton of PS3s on the shelf. Which means SCEA are in a pickle! Either they hold off on introducing the 40GB model until they’ve sold more 60GB models, or they do what Europe did and bundle the 60 with a game and controller to get rid of the things. Which are they going to do? I don’t know. I don’t have the gift like Pachter does. Lord knows if I did, I wouldn’t blow it guessing about videogames, I’d be straight down the track to make me some cash money. SCEA still silent on 40GB console for North America [GI.biz] More »
40GB PS3 Hits Austraia, 60GBs Disappear
6:30PM Luke Plunkett | Did a little shopping today. No, I wasn’t shopping for a 40GB PS3. Don’t need one (had to pick up my copy of Phantom Hourglass… more on that tomorrow). But just in case you do, know this, Australia: it’s out, as of today, for $700. If you don’t want one, and would instead prefer the outgoing 60GB Starter Packs, oh boy, you’d best get a move on – I couldn’t find ANY, with most stores sold out across the country (yes, I had them check), while others (David Jones, for example) had already been instructed to remove them from display. More »
Sony Will Continue To Update BC For 60, 80GB PS3 Owners
7:30PM Luke Plunkett | I’m getting as sick of it as you, so this is the last backwards compatibility post. I promise. So let’s end the whole sorry mess on a high note! For anyone who already owns a 60GB unit, know that Sony haven’t forgotten about you. SCEE’s Nick Sharples has told us that for the millions of consumers who already own a PS3, they’ll continue to work on backwards-compatibility updates: The current PS3 system software and future updates will continue to support backwards compatibility for the current 60GB and 80GB models. Good news for existing owners! Also, I wonder why he mentioned 80GB. Sharples works for SCEE, which has never seen an 80GB model. Unless he knows something we don’t. More »
No 60GB Value Pack, Price-Cut For Australia
4:45PM Luke Plunkett | Ah. So this is why SCE Australia aren’t cutting the price of the existing 60GB PS3. According to sources from specialist retailers EB Games and GAME, Sony has been anticipating the move to 40GB for quite some time, and decided that rather than leave a bunch of 60GB units on the shelf (which they would then have to price-cut or repackage into a Value Pack, ala Europe) they’d just stop sending 60GB Starter Packs to retail altogether. Explains Sony’s comments yesterday as to why the retail supply had “all but dried up” – it had, because apparently they’d cut off the supply, telling those retailers that while existing orders could be filled, no new orders for the 60GB model have been taken for a little while now. Guess we won’t be seeing a Value Pack, then, and if other retailers have had their stock cut off like EB and GAME have, if you want a 60GB model with gimped backwards compatibility I’d suggest you get a move on. Because once they’re gone, it’s naught but 40GB. More »
It’s “Natural” For Early PS3 Adopters To Feel Cheated
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | SCEE just let UK Managing Director Ray Maguire sit down with GamesIndustry for an interview. What do we get? More wacky SCEE executive quotes! And no matter how boring continued Sony/PS3 cock-ups get, we can always get a laugh out of those. Like, when asked whether early PS3 adopters would feel cheated, Maguire answers: “I think it’s natural to feel that way, of course it is”. Guy also said a bunch of other stuff. The full interview’s over at GamesIndustry, and is definitely worth a read over your morning toast, but here’s the highlights: First, why having loads of different PS3s on the market isn’t confusing: As products evolve the offerings change because they have to adapt to the needs of the consumers but I don’t think it’s been particularly confusing in six months to go from stand alone, to a bundled proposition into a low price entry level model. So true. It hasn’t been at all confusing for PAL consumers to see three different PS3s (four if you count the upcoming Value Pack in Britain) in less than seven months. We also have to remember that consumers don’t search around the world for different configurations. We are a global company but we have to act locally as well. Also true! No way do we search around the world! I bet not one of you has the slightest idea of the number of different configurations the PS3 is currently being sold in across the world. Not even the foggiest! Sony admits early PS3 adopters may feel cheated [GamesIndustry.biz] More »
SCE Australia Quiet On 60GB Price Cuts, Value Pack
4:30PM Luke Plunkett | So the 40GB PS3 has been announced for Australia, and some people are happy with the $300 saving. Others are rightly pissed at the castration of the system’s PS2 backwards compatibility. The rest are probably wondering when they can start seeing some savings on the existing 60GB model. Well, SCE Australia have let us know that the current 60GB Starter Pack’s price is going nowhere, and will stay at $999, primarily because “stocks [of the 60GB Starter Pack] are all but dried up” (which I find a little hard to believe). So either Australia is going to follow Britain’s lead and introduce a slightly cheaper “Value Pack” (which includes a 60GB PS3, one SixAxis and two games) or… we just got the shaft (the rest of Europe, of which SCE Aus is a subsidiary, are getting a Starter Pack price-cut). And as SCE Australia didn’t say anything about any Value Packs in their 40GB announcement (unlike the UK & Ireland, which did), or when I asked them 60GB pricing today, you’d all best make preparations for the latter. The latter being, you know. The shaft. More »
