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Another PS2 price drop coming soon?

DVDBack23 @ Aug 07, 2007 19:06 | 27 comments

Michael Pachter, one of the video game industry's leading analysts has predicted that there will be a PlayStation 2 price drop coming before the holiday season and another price drop for the PlayStation 3 alongside the release of GTA IV and MGS4 in 2008.

"Although we do not expect another PS3 price cut this year, we think a price cut for the PS2 is possible," said Pachter in his latest note to investors. "Any hardware price reduction could serve as a catalyst for sales growth later in the year."

"We do expect Sony to be in a position to cut the price of the PS3 in early 2008, when blockbuster games Grand Theft Auto IV and PS3 exclusive Metal Gear Solid 4 will launch," he added.

The PS2 is still the most played console, by far, but it is sometimes forgotten in the shadows of the "next gen" consoles. A price drop on the system should be great for sales and continue to push the system to new customers.

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Comment by: bobiroc (Aug 07, 2007 21:05)

Uh, most every gamer already has a PS2. This is not what we want Sony. We said PS3 Price cut and a permanent one, not just a tease like you just did. We understand that it has Blu-Ray blah blah blah. It was your choice to include this expensive propietary technology so do not penalize the customer for your business decisions. Seeing as Blu-Ray/HD-DVD hybrid players are becoming more common I will think that your Blu-Ray movie playback capabilities will surely be near useless in a very short time.

Comment by: flyingv (Aug 07, 2007 21:52)

Originally posted by Jlhfit:
 New Customers??LOL... If "customers" havent played or owned a PS2 by now I doubt seriously that people will just all of a sudden go out and buy one cause the price dropped 5 or 10 bucks...


Time to replace my sons older model and this sounds like a good deal to me.

Comment by: bobiroc (Aug 07, 2007 22:02)

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Originally posted by Jlhfit:
 New Customers??LOL... If "customers" havent played or owned a PS2 by now I doubt seriously that people will just all of a sudden go out and buy one cause the price dropped 5 or 10 bucks...


Time to replace my sons older model and this sounds like a good deal to me.

So you are going to go out and purchase another PS2 just because it is newer. Does the old one still work? Sony loves customers like you. Buy it once at a high price and then buy it again because it has a different design and costs less. Sucker...

Comment by: DVDBack23 (Aug 07, 2007 22:30)

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Originally posted by Jlhfit:
 New Customers??LOL... If "customers" havent played or owned a PS2 by now I doubt seriously that people will just all of a sudden go out and buy one cause the price dropped 5 or 10 bucks...


Time to replace my sons older model and this sounds like a good deal to me.

So you are going to go out and purchase another PS2 just because it is newer. Does the old one still work? Sony loves customers like you. Buy it once at a high price and then buy it again because it has a different design and costs less. Sucker...

Are you really telling me you wouldnt upgrade your old ass v1 for a v15 slim if the price was under $90?

Comment by: Adzagam (Aug 07, 2007 23:02)

Well, I never bought a PS2 since I didn't have the money, but thx to the price drop I might consider it since there's tons of games I'd like to get my hands on.

Comment by: bobiroc (Aug 07, 2007 23:03)

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Originally posted by Jlhfit:
 New Customers??LOL... If "customers" havent played or owned a PS2 by now I doubt seriously that people will just all of a sudden go out and buy one cause the price dropped 5 or 10 bucks...


Time to replace my sons older model and this sounds like a good deal to me.

So you are going to go out and purchase another PS2 just because it is newer. Does the old one still work? Sony loves customers like you. Buy it once at a high price and then buy it again because it has a different design and costs less. Sucker...

Are you really telling me you wouldnt upgrade your old ass v1 for a v15 slim if the price was under $90?

Hell No. I have a V3 and it works fine so why would I spend money to get a system the plays the same games when my current one still works just fine. Its not like I get anything new besides it being slimmer. I'd rather take that $90 and set it aside to buy a new generation console like a 360 or something.

Comment by: M4DHATT3R (Aug 07, 2007 23:08)

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Are you really telling me you wouldnt upgrade your old ass v1 for a v15 slim if the price was under $90?

If you have the money and your PS2 is really really old then yeah I don't blame you, especially if you want to stll play your PS2 games years and years down the line since Sony is taking out the Emotion Engine in the PS3's now.

Comment by: bobiroc (Aug 07, 2007 23:25)

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Are you really telling me you wouldnt upgrade your old ass v1 for a v15 slim if the price was under $90?

If you have the money and your PS2 is really really old then yeah I don't blame you, especially if you want to stll play your PS2 games years and years down the line since Sony is taking out the Emotion Engine in the PS3's now.

Why would you waste your money if your current PS2 still works. That boggles my mind. If they drop the price to $99 there are still plenty of things I could put that $100 into instead of replacing a working PS2 with another PS2. If my current one was broke or had something wrong with it maybe, but if it still plays games and works why... just why.

Comment by: jookycola (Aug 08, 2007 00:07)

I think Sony should take the PS2 and make it like a PS3-lite. Put in one of the upcoming Ipods new Samsung flash memory cards giving the PS2 16+ gigs of internal memory, Have a slot for an additonal memory stick. It would still only play PS1 & PS2 games, normal DVD/DVD+/-R & RW playback, and CD-R/RW playback.

Even if they didn't go with internal flash memory the memory stick reader alone would be awesome. You could transfer game saves from PS1 & PS2 memory cards to the memory stick to be used for PS2 game saves on the PS3, and PS1 game saves on PSP's available psone emu's.

The internal flash memory could store movies, music, pictures, game demo downloads, allow moderate internet browsing, Help speed up PS2 game load times. All could be already be accessed since the slims already come with network adapters already. Basically it would be roughly like a desktop version of the PSP.
I'd totally pay $150 bucks for a PS2 like this. This could balance out the loses the PS3 has bled from Sony in just mere months.

Would it hurt the PS3's sales. Yes and no. Yes because with a much lower sale price it would probably out sell the PS3 hands down. But if you want HD/1080 res, larger storage capacity, Blu-ray, wi-fi, and the newest most cutting edge games you'd have to upgrade to PS3. I think they could co-exesist, Mercedes can sell a c-class and S-Classes and still turn a profit. Theres room for top-of-the-line media center (PS3) and a high funtioning game machine (PS2)

Comment by: BIGnewb (Aug 08, 2007 01:31)

the ps2 is a great system.it defined 2nd gen consoles winning that generations console war and is still beating today's modern systems.there was a price drop on it before the ps3 came out.that drop was to $129.99 and the silver one is too which is fair.now you can expect $109.99 which isnt worth it anymore,it still sells but just clear that shit off the shelves!sell it for $89.99 so the ps3 can have a bigger piece of that pie........thats my 2 cents!

Comment by: tuure2 (Aug 08, 2007 05:51)

Originally posted by bobiroc:
 Uh, most every gamer already has a PS2. This is not what we want Sony. We said PS3 Price cut and a permanent one, not just a tease like you just did. We understand that it has Blu-Ray blah blah blah. It was your choice to include this expensive propietary technology so do not penalize the customer for your business decisions. Seeing as Blu-Ray/HD-DVD hybrid players are becoming more common I will think that your Blu-Ray movie playback capabilities will surely be near useless in a very short time.

Why PS2 then sell all regions more than X360 if everybody have it?

Comment by: tuure2 (Aug 08, 2007 05:53)

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Originally posted by bobiroc:
 Uh, most every gamer already has a PS2. This is not what we want Sony. We said PS3 Price cut and a permanent one, not just a tease like you just did. We understand that it has Blu-Ray blah blah blah. It was your choice to include this expensive propietary technology so do not penalize the customer for your business decisions. Seeing as Blu-Ray/HD-DVD hybrid players are becoming more common I will think that your Blu-Ray movie playback capabilities will surely be near useless in a very short time.


PS2 sells every region better than X360 so i doubt that everyone have it.

Edit: Sorry triple post. Internet has gone crazy.

Comment by: tuure2 (Aug 08, 2007 05:53)

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Comment by: theridges (Aug 08, 2007 06:21)

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Are you really telling me you wouldnt upgrade your old ass v1 for a v15 slim if the price was under $90?

If you have the money and your PS2 is really really old then yeah I don't blame you, especially if you want to stll play your PS2 games years and years down the line since