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Yet more rumours regarding what Sony will/won’t say at today’s supposed PS4 unveiling have appeared, with sources claiming the machine will launch in two separate hardware versions for around £280 and £340.
The report, which comes via US aggregator Kotaku, says two units priced in local money at $429 and $529 will be available at launch this November, presumably offering different hard drive capacities and maybe more incentives, with the source also claiming a dedicated PS4 app will let users buy and manage games from a phone or tablet — and there will be an Xbox Live-like subscription fee to access most of the online options.
Separately, it’s also emerged that Sony’s streaming division formulated out of the Gaikai acquisition, has registered several variants of the name PlayStation Cloud. Which is a pretty self-explanatory thing, no doubt handling Sony’s purported online streaming plans.
We will hopefully know for certain in a matter of hours, with Sony’s New York event scheduled to take place today at 6.00pm US time, or 11.00pm Good Old British Time. [Kotaku via CVG]
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So that’s £280/£340 converted? Any idea what it’ll actually cost here? £429/£529?
£299/£349 sounds acceptable
Yeh. That’s what I’d bet on.
Don’t forget that due to individual US states taxation USD prices never include tax. So it can be assumed that the £280 & £340 conversions are before tax. With UK VAT that would put these systems at £336 & £408 respectively.
Considering the UK also tends to be relatively expensive for tech then you are probably looking at £350 & £450 respectively.
well the original UK launch price of the PS3 was £425 which was disastrous for initial sales, Sony learned their lesson and will want to avoid making the same mistake so Im assuming a base price of £299 will be their target for the PS4′s UK launch price
Lol we bought it when it was at that price, though I think we got a few games with it so it wasn’t all bad. But yeah I don’t think people will put down over £400 for a console these days, not when cheap games are so widespread.
I bought mine just after they realised they’d made a mistake with the pricing and although still the same price. They bumped it up with a choice of 2 games and a blue ray I got the 60gb version with resistance fall of man Heavenly sword and Casino Royale on blu ray, happy enough but would be reluctant to pay that again, given the price of games and the stagnation of games like Call of duty. There would have to be a really revolutionary, jaw dropping must game for me to consider it.