It's worse than we thought...

[Tharrick]

So, we all know that the PS3 is retailing at $599 in yanksville and €599 ($756) in Europe.

Pre-orders of the console from www.play.com are cited at £550.

That's US$1,016
$417 more than the US release.
Even allowing that it comes with 3 games, allowing $50 for games that's still $267 more than the yanks are paying.

(all calculations performed using exchange rates accurate at 14/6/2006)

When are games manufacturers going to realise that the GBP, EUR and the USD are completely different?

[Axel]

Man...€600 for it is trully expensive...I think I'll wait until it loses to about 250-400€....

[a_nirvana_fan]

If the PS3 cost THIS much then it's gotta be dam good but doesnt the price depend on the size of the hard drive? I mean a 20GB PS3 will be cheaper than a 60GB PS3 right?

Whatever the price is, I WILL hopefully get mine just for MGS4 alone:D

[Axel]

But still, is trully expensive when you can buy a PS2 by 150€.It's damn money!!Almost the price of a "good" PC.

[Tharrick]

I got my PS2 along with 2 controllers, DVD remote, and several games, for £180 (€263) - the console itself was £100 (€146)

[Swornd]

If the PS3 cost THIS much then it's gotta be dam good but doesnt the price depend on the size of the hard drive? I mean a 20GB PS3 will be cheaper than a 60GB PS3 right?

Whatever the price is, I WILL hopefully get mine just for MGS4 alone:D

From what I heard they aren't realsing the 20gb one here (UK that is), so we can expect to pay the £550 :)

[Azerty]

Yes, the PlayStation 3 is expensive. It's expensive in a lot of places. If you're a true gamer, you wouldn't let a little thing like price get in the way of your dream console. If it is your dream console.