Prices for PS4's dropping swiftly thanks to high sales!
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Greetings from Argentina, where it's still over $1000!DanielBrown said:
All of these price drops are quite imaginary to me.
Eliam_Dar said:
Damn, I feel your pain.Johnny Novgorod said:
Maybe you could order it from the UK. An online store there have free shipping to Argentina(can't find Brazil in the list :/) and the prices, while higher than in the US, are about half of that in Sweden. Bought all my physical games from there for the past five years. Might be some US stores that has free international shipping as well. Looked into it once, but I believe I felt the long shipping time wasn't worth it.
http://www.thehut.com/international-delivery.info
Funny, I don't see Microsoft or Nintendo or many other electronic companies changing their prices to accommodate to the new realities of the economy. But then again when our dollar was a strong 1.08US they also didn't lower their prices, even though Japan's currency was in a state at the time where a lowering of prices was even more warranted.Ieyke said:
It was price gouging then, it's price gouging now, and it's an insult that they are reducing the retail prices in other places where it was already about the same price as here at launch without returning our prices back to the launch one (which is also something I don't recall ever happening, a console increasing the price after launch). It's already the most expensive console on our market, now it's going to be widening the gap by 100$? I understand now why Sony is in financial trouble, 36 million people may not be a big market on the international scale, but the way they are treating us shows someone important is brining the company down with bad business sense.
Well for starters, Microsoft isn't based in Japan, which probably has a factor on currency exchange ratesZontar said:
Also Microsoft probably have really easy distribution channels into Canada for obvious reasons. Nintendo always makes profits on it's consoles and also has a giant bank of cash to fall back on (plus their console is completely failing), so it's easier for them to suck it up than it is for Sony. Sony always sell their consoles at or below the cost of production and have massive amounts of debt which makes it a lot harder to swallow losses. But I would totally believe a company would do something like that to make money. The reason why I don't believe that's what has happened is because, why would Sony just hate Canada? If it were price gouging there are plenty of other countries where they could afford to hike prices that would make them a lot more money. The USA has like 10 times the population of Canada.
Unless you're in Canada where it costs $450 because and games cost $70 before tax because Sony decided to just be a bunch of cunts. We make less here than Americans dollar per dollar but have to pay more because our dollar is behind the USD.
But when our dollar stays on parity for 2 years prices never go down.
But when our dollar stays on parity for 2 years prices never go down.
I'm reading what you're writing and I understand your frustration, but I dare anyone to beat Argentina's $1000+ PS4 price tag and $100 games.Weaver said:
Thank you but I'm relatively new to the PS3 myself and have a long, long backlog list to catch up to. There're easily 50 games I want to play (and replay) on it right now, whereas the PS4 has maybe 2 games I want to play, kinda, at the moment. Besides importing consoles from bordering countries like Chile and Uruguay is way easier than importing them from abroad, not to mention, cheaper. That's how I got my PS3 in the first place.DanielBrown said:Eliam_Dar said:Damn, I feel your pain.Johnny Novgorod said:
Maybe you could order it from the UK. An online store there have free shipping to Argentina(can't find Brazil in the list :/) and the prices, while higher than in the US, are about half of that in Sweden. Bought all my physical games from there for the past five years. Might be some US stores that has free international shipping as well. Looked into it once, but I believe I felt the long shipping time wasn't worth it.
http://www.thehut.com/international-delivery.info
Sony can go fuck themselves. In Canada, the launch price was $399 and it went up to $449 recently "due to the lowering value of our dollar compared to the US dollar"
Funny... thing is, our prices didn't get cheaper when our dollar was soaring. I call bullshit on both Sony and Gamestop for pulling this shit.
Funny... thing is, our prices didn't get cheaper when our dollar was soaring. I call bullshit on both Sony and Gamestop for pulling this shit.
Well, heck, for those outside the U.S., got any relatives that live in the States and could send you the system via... whatever will ship to your house? lol
Prices don't decrease with high demand generally; if anything an increase in demand would result in an increase in price. I find it more likely it's because of the Xbone's price cut and because sales at this specific store are lower than they want.
Wow, that's only 215 euro, which is 46% cheaper! Too bad that I can't calculate the shipping costs, usually that's very expensive going from The U.S. to the Netherlands.
I am still going to wait until the end of the year to pick one up to see what games come out for it. At the moment I am getting plenty of mileage from the PS3, what with Watch_dogs and Sly Cooper HD collection (the games I am currently playing). I have also heard that Sony are going to keep developing for the PS3 until 2015, so I find it pretty foolish to get a console where the only thing I want to play is InFamous: Second son.