To Good To Be True!?!? PS2 (Rumoured) To Drop to $199 on 12/26!!! (Warning: Flames inside!)

[PicPop]

no way. =]

 

[chizow]

<< dropping the price AFTER Christmas, when everyone has no more money to buy makes little sense... >>



You have people who got gift certificates, cash, and those with enough discretionary funds to be able to purchase it regardless. The X-mas buying/selling/exchanging flurry doesn't really end until the end of January.

Chiz

 

[ShizNitz]

Just what this forum needs..... Yet another Hot Deals post that has turned into a "battle of the gamesystems". Take your rants to Off Topic please.

 

[schuang74]

I would doubt that the PS2 price would drop so soon after Christmas. A lot of retailers are giving extended return policies as the result of early Christmas shoppers. Many people buy presents early, under normal return policies if you bought it in November you could not return it if the person didn't like it or if the product was defective, usually holiday return policies are more flexable and give you until the week after New Years to return.

Anyhow could you imagine if the PS2 price were to drop to $199 on the 29th? You would get mobs of angry parents and others trying to return their PS2's or get a refund for the difference. A PR nightmare for Sony. I do think the price will drop in the next few months though ( I would think arround February or March, right before the end of the fiscal year to drive up numbers).

 

[IshmaelLeaver]

<< Mods, lock this thread.. Unfounded rumors and flames is all it contains. >>

 

[GQUnknown]

DefRef:

you said you don't care about consoles, yet you post a thread about consoles. Bullsh!t
you say PS@ is gonna drop the price to $199. Again bullshit.

For all you ignorant people that don't believe that PS2 outsells xbox and gambecube, don't you read the news. Besides people by consoles to play the GAMES that they want. Okay i got a PS2 to play 9 of the 10 best games availible NOW. FFX, GTA3, MGS2, GT3, and Devil May Cry are only out on PS2 right now.

I was thinking about buying an XBOX at Virgin for $210 but figured i didn't want it to collect dust. OH well

IT A FACT PS2 OUTSELLS BOTH THE GAMECUBE AND XBOX EVEN THOUGH ITS BEEN OUT OVER A YEAR.
REASON = BECAUSE IT IS PLAIN AND SIMPLE: ITS BETTER HOWEVER YOU WHICH WAY YOU LOOK AT IT.
PEOPLE HAVE A BETTER TIME PLAYING THE PS2, THEREFORE THAT IS WHY THEY BUY IT. NUFF SAID.

Oh yeah to all you xbox and gamecube fanboy who is gonna reply to this post. =JJJJ===D~~~~

 

[Wingster]

I don't know why people think buying XBOX is like getting a PC upgrade.. Hello?? How old is PS1? How old is N64? and How old is DC? If you take the dates in proportion, how much in proportion are they selling EACH month? Since DC game aint bad, they're still selling ok right now.. but give it 5 years... it'll disappear like the jaguar along with xbox

You guys still don't get it.. People don't use Windows not because they want to.. but they're already forced to and need to get along with society.. You can make Linux appear identical to windows if you want to.. or even shell windows within Linux (my college does that).. So yeah.. flame me for being anti-M$..

It's funny how people can say I am biased against M$ If I were to say HALO sux. As far as I am concerned, M$ didn't write HALO. I would be biased if I lie and say it crashes alot. Let's hope that's not the case


The point is.. like I said.. it's the software.. the developers.. HALO and UNREAL are FPS..that's what american developers are good at.. alongside with strategic games.. Now tell me how many console owners out there who does not own a PC.. and compare console FPS with PC FPS? FPS sells because of its multiplayer capability.. And yeah, I bet you'll all sing along with MS in playing broadband on xbox Oh damn.. I forgot your TV doesn't support 1600x1200... now how the F*CK am I gonna snipe those bastards???

Hell, if Xbox release Squaresoft and Konami games as opening titles.. I'll be gettin an XBOX..even at $400 if PS2 doesn't have those titles.. But that prolly gonna happen during Bill Gate's Afterlife Like I said, I'll buy XBOX when M$ decides to acquire Japan..

I have yet to see a long line of people waiting to buy an XBOX game.. That time will come.. so they say..

I don't like Nintendo very much yet I don't say they suck because they're not in my age group and they do have very good potiential.. At least they have a target audience

 

[DefRef]

GQUnknown: You're just a thread-crapper, so get lost and go play at www.nakedpokemon.com, mmmkay? This is the SECOND time you've overlooked what I ACTUALLT POSTED to make some lame "point" that isn't even correct.

R-e-a-l s-l-o-o-o-o-o-o-w for you, I'll say it again:

1. I've gotten great deals from this forum and I wanted to give something back;

2. It was a tip I got from someone who claims to have the scoop. He may be mistaken, but he has no reason to LIE about this;

3. So what if I don't care about consoles?!? For those who may want a PS2, a deal like this would be a boon, esp. for those on tight budgets. As the posts have mentioned so far, this may get people of the fence and buying.

I totally agree that this seems like an awfully big price drop, but Return to Castle Wolfenstein was selling for $55 the first 2-1/2 weeks and then BAM!!!, it was $30. I got a AmEx Blue price adjustment, but how many peeps rushed out to buy it the first couple of days and either couldn't or didn't bother to get their difference back? Hmmm? Sony may be making a bold move thru ultra-aggresive pricing.

I'll edit the thread title to include the rumoured status of this, but it makes more sense than the "Voodoo 5s for a buck!!!! w000t!!!" frenzy that happened a few weeks back and had ZERO credibility. Was GQUnknown crapping in that thread too?

 

[knightc2]

This would be a hot deal if this happens. It seems reasonable that Sony could drop the price after the holidays. It may depend on the volume of sales this holiday season. If I understand correctly, Sony (and all others) make most of their profits on the licensing of games. They can afford to lose money on the consoles because they make up for it with the software. I think that if the X-Box and Gamecube sales figures are high this holiday then Sony would be wise to drop the price to compete with the new systems. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Noirish]

can we stop this non-sense.
there is no reason for sony to drop the price to $199.
they have some hottest game out right now and they will keep on coming.
why take charge again when they are just about to break even on console selling profits.
if you give a more reasonable figure like $250, i'll believe you 75%.
this is just stupid posting.

also, this is not atomic hot at all.

 

[crypticlogin]

I'll believe the price drops when I see it. I really thought the $300 price for a PS2 was pretty exorbitant but the games are making the machine so heck, the price might be justified... but $200 is a great price and when it does, I'll buy.

But to give DefRef some credit, at least he made mention of _a_ source. I recall a certain member who was calling the recent RAM price increases a week or two in advance and when asked for his source, he basically blew everyone off with a "trust me, I know what I'm talking about, if you don't believe me tough for you." Real convincing, he was not.

 

[Wingster]

$200 sounds like sony is going out of business
Hey, i don't mind if there is a superior system that offers better EXPERIENCE.. but that's not the case -_-

You should prolly wanna retitle it to: "Wish List: PS2 for $200"

 

[krackato]

I doubt very much that this is going to happen since I just saw at Slashdot.com that the Playstation2 was the best selling console of the Holiday season beating the Gamecube and Xbox. $279 is more reasonable.

Slashdot Story about Playstation 2

 

[JoeFoster]

will Halo be coming to the PC?

 

[SDOG34]

Last I heard I think they were saying Halo would be out on PC in spring 2002. So yes, it will be coming out on PC. I hope when it does they let ppl with Xbox play against ppl with computers. LOL...remember when they thought about doing that with Quake3. Then they realized "Oh wait...ppl with the PC's would kick the living crap out of the console owners." Halo may be great on xbox, but that just means it will be way better on PC.

 

[IshmaelLeaver]

Where's the Hot Deal?

 

[Wingster]

I know why the video gaming market is booming! Because of the WTC incident, people are urged to stay home and play PS2 However, I believe CounterStrike should be booming instead.

To my understanding, XBOX games are under directx (not 100% sure on that) As far as I am concerned, XBOX will be hacked to hell. Wait a year or so, I bet there's going to be ..emulators?.. no wait.. just direct port to the PC Then just trash the console when you buy the game and use your GF3 ultras or the radeon 8500s

 

[JKurtz]

I don't know if I would by another Sony DVD device, including the PS2. Do a google search for +"sony" +"C:13", and see the crap about Sony dvd players dropping like flies, including their very high end DVD players and PS2's.

Personally, I recently fell victim to the "C:13 No Disk of Death" on my Sony DVD Player. One day out of warranty and Sony wants $136 to fix a known problem.

 

[Zclyh3]

There is no way a reputable company like Sony will drop it's price on the PS2 so sharply. It took Sony 2-3 years just to drop the price on the Playstation. I highly doubt Sony make this move. And plus, I got my PS2 at Virgin Megastores! Even if they do drop the price of the console, they won't drop the price on the accessories and games.

 

[Wingster]

Glad I bought a Toshiba

Never use the PS2 for DVD, control and feature sucks. Just wondering, is PS2 progressive scan?

 

[GQUnknown]

DefRef,

Stop being a big baby, 1st you say that the ps2 is gonna drop to $199 at 12/29. Now you say its only rumored to drop. Sh!t you next you are gonna say that it was a joke. Muahaahaa.

Stop playing game on these bored okay.

Moderators please lock this useless thread. PS2 ainght gonna drop to $199 any time soon. Everybody know its. DUUUah

Again I gotta call Bullsh!t on this deal

 

[Zclyh3]

And plus, the PS2 in Japan just had a recent price drop of about 15%. There's no way Sony would drop it at $100. 1/3 of the current price, NO WAY.

 

[GQUnknown]

DefNeff,

Take your BS hot deal out of this forum. Pissing everybody off here.

 

[knightc2]

Why is everyone getting so p'oed about this post? I do aggree that this isn't a confirmed hot deal, so let's just let it die.
I don't think that it is that far fetched to think that the price might drop to $199. Sony did the same thing with the original Playstation. Just let this post die and we will see if this price drop really comes true after the holidays. If it does, then great I'm glad I waited if not then who cares.

 

[Doomguy]

Sony products are generally crap in quality. Sony also has terrible customer service.

Microsoft and Nintendo have been known to at least back up their hardware, the same can not be said for Sony. The only worthwhile game I see on PS2 is MGS2.