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Sony’s lowering the price of PS2 to $99
Looking to add a gaming console to your entertainment or home theater setup but not quite ready to spring $400 on a PlayStation 3? Or maybe you already have a standalone Blu-ray player and just want games?
Sony’s dropping the price on its previous iteration of the popular console, the PlayStation 2, to $99.99. Sure, it’s a little less frilly than the PS3, but at a quarter of the price it’s not a bad entree into the world of gaming.
Sony confirmed the PS2 price drop after a tipster gave Joystiq (via Yahoo) wind of what was going on.
Look for the price decrease in the first week of April. For those hoping that the PlayStation 3, with its built-in Blu-ray drive, would be more palatable to purchase at a lower amount, Sony says don’t hold your breath. The company denied price drop rumors, saying “We do not have plans for a PS3 price drop, and any rumors to that effect are false and are the result of speculation.”
Well, anyway, the sleek PS2 won’t take up much room in your equipment rack, it’ll play your DVDs and CDs, it’s got a couple of memory card slots, and you can partake in network-enabled games. And, of course, bundles and bundles of other games available, probably a bunch of which you can grab at bargain web prices (and used).
So are you going to bite on this new price?
This doesn’t surprise me about Sony,price fixing is what they know best.OPPO does the same thing on their players.
@AJ
if you were losing $49 a console already would like to “help sales” by increasing your loss to $99? Of course a price drop would help sales, but it also requires justification. With the PS3, PS2, and PSP on the market Sony isn’t hurting when it comes to sales (not to mention winning the HD format war). The PS3 out paced the 360 to its first 20 million sales (http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=2954) there’s no reason to decrease the price now especially with the value (better hardware than the 360 elite at the same price)
It’s been pretty easy to find the PS2 for under $100 online for some time now. In fact I just saw a brand new PS3 for less that $275 the other day: http://www.zingsale.com/item/B001COU9I6/
This doesn’t affect me personally since I already have a PS3 (and love it) but $100 price drop sure would help sales. I guess they literally cannot afford to drop it just yet.
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I was thinking about just picking one of these up when I heard the price was dropping just to have a backup for my early model PS2 if it were to finally break because I won’t buy a PS3. I’ll buy a PS3 when they drop to maybe 150 bucks and have proven that they can still make games. Not to mention till they redesign that huge, ugly monstrosity of a console.