warstrider

• 6:53am EST - March 1st, 2013
• 1

Unless I'm way off about how much the parts cost, even in bulk, I think £299 is a hope too far. Sadly. If they did hit that price point then I think Sony could have a generation that would rival the PS2 in popularity and sales.

Russell Watson-Thomas | DiscoMcDisco

• 7:17am EST - March 1st, 2013
• 2

With plenty of hunting, it could be possible to build a machine with similar parts, but it would take a LOT of hunting to do it bang on £299.

The bit to remember here is that Sony will be getting a much better price than we'd find in retail, let alone hunting on eBay etc for good prices. It's possible they'd run at such a tiny margin, hoping for growth through their other revenue generating exercises.

I'd pay £350-399 if bundled with a good title (or two) plus Gaikai/PS Plus/whatever they'll do for an instant games collection for a year. That would probably remove some of the worries about title cost while still allowing people to really take advantage of what to offer.

TristanPR77 | Tristan77

• 9:06am EST - March 1st, 2013
• 3

"I was expecting a reveal more like apple" This is not the mobile industry, not even Nintendo announced the launch day of the wii u when first revealed. I think you are the one who have a lot to learn. 

warstrider

• 9:24am EST - March 1st, 2013
• 4

The show was a bit weird. Creepy guys and people standing around looking confused. Andrew House and Mark Cerny were good but everyone else was awkward. Especially the Watch_Dogs guy. 

I would have had a single charismatic host who had been heavily briefed on the stuff and had played the games beforehand where possible and the other guests would have come on and talked to him/her. I would also not let anyone use a monologue about police brutality, Big Brother and privacy invasion to sell my big corporate backed game on my new social data gathering console. But then I don't own a multi-billion pound company so what do I know. 

Perishing_Mind | Ernad_BMW

• 12:13pm EST - March 1st, 2013
• 5

Joker walking in...."ha ha ha and I thought my jokes were bad"

Alpha2

• 12:50pm EST - March 1st, 2013
• 6

There's no way the thing is going to be that in expensive and make it to EU store by Xmas. there are simply too many countries/regions and launguages to support in such a short period of time and producing the units required to keep the shelves filled will be next to impossible. That's why they always say Japan is first, smallest region right in their back yard, they can practcally ship them from the factory to the stores. North America is next because it might be 10 times as large but with time they can eventually meet demands but then you get to the EU and that's 5 times larger than NA possibly more... I'd be surprised if EU storse see it before next February.

warstrider

• 12:56pm EST - March 1st, 2013
• 7

 @6 I think your probably right. Its frustrating enough having to be third in line here, I'd be really pi**ed if I lived in Africa or Australia

Jakeles | Glaedr-Oromis

• 3:11am EST - March 2nd, 2013
• 8

That's not too bad. I hope the price here in the US is decent as well. Maybe they are still trying to figure it out. Could be the reason Sony has not allowed pre-orders in any store in the US/NA. It's killing me though.

michaelcorleone

• 11:57am EST - March 2nd, 2013
• 9

 "The graphical power of the ps4" ?? I didn't see anything impressive apart from maybe watchdogs and that old mans head from quantic dreams! Oh, and killzone didn't look like anything that couldn't be done on ps3!!!! I hope not but I've got a feelin that Microsoft have got something spectacular up their sleeves!! 

avecha

• 4:49pm EST - March 3rd, 2013
• 10

@ Warstrider.

Im in New Zealand and already im pissed i may have to wait a few months longer.