Has anyone heard anymore.....
 

Has anyone ever heard anymore about the rumored price drop for the playstation 2? I saw a little about it ,but nothing definite.If it does go down to $99 I know I,m getting one.

If it is down to $99, I will buy one.

according to this site: http://ultimategamez.com/newspro/ful...65718031,8453,

rumours abound.

a quick hint. google is your friend. have a question about a rumour? google it. need info about something? google it. feeling lonely on a friday night? google it.

also... found here:http://www.nikush.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2122

I think he was asking if it was official or not. I posted that IGN info a couple of weeks ago, and I don't think it's been confirmed yet. :( Oh well, it's supposed to drop this month, so I guess we'll see.

-Lasereth

Heck, if the price drops to $99.99, I'll buy a second PS2.

heh, when me and my roommates moved in together, we ended up with 3 ps2's in the house. Maybe we'll get another one for the kitchen :p

expect xbox to also drop immediately after christmas, as well.

I dunno about that, they would be taking one hell of a loss per unit...

xbox's go for $150 now without a controller, 180 with!
come on microsoft, follow the trends!

I doubt that PS2 will drop in price before e3 next year, if then. They are selling well presently.

and why would you get an Xbox w/o a controller???

rumors about the xbox thing..
like Unliked one said they would be taking a fucking loss per unit if they dropped to 99, or even 149. As it is.. the newer model xboxen already cost MS over 250+ dollars per unit to produce. If a ps price drop comes down to 99 i would proally get one, just so i could play certain games.. but it better happen before Matio Kart:double dash is released.. or there wont be a need to :)

X-box and ps2 prices will probably drop further. I was following intels stock report (investment nerd) and they lost the contract for the xbox2 chips to IBM and there was a blurb about how the xbox2 is scheduled for release in Japan in June of next year and most likely sony will, keeping with the competiveness, most likely debute there PS3 in Japan around the same time. Of course this came from Business Weekly so I couldn't tell ya how reliable it is

Nah, both MS and Sony have both said they plan to release new consoles sometime in 2005 with only Nintendo seeming to be ready to release a new system in 2004 already having contracts secured with IBM and ATI.

Regardless this will be a very short turnaround for what have been largely very succesful consoles for both MS and Sony, Microsoft having supplanted Nintendo in both Europe and the US as the No. 2 console maker, and this christmas promises to be very good to xbox and you still have Halo 2 coming in the first half of 2004.

Another note on the new Xbox, with them licensing IBM's chip technology they are going to be using 128-bit chips, which means no more x86 technology and they won't be backward compatible... something makes me think this will be a BIG deal to most people...

Really? Dang, how ornery. How do you play without a controller?

Seriously? Got a decent article about that? I'm a little skeptical... I mean, 2004 is right around the corner, and the GC isn't doing that bad, is it?

I've heard that Microsoft and Nintendo will be releasing their next consoles in 2005 with the PS2 pushed back to *most likely* 2006 due to their cell technology that's not going as quickly as planned. Yes, Sony won't be the first to launch this time...the videogame market could get very interesting.

-Lasereth

Does anyone know if the PS3 will support PS1 games? I know Sony already announced it would play PS2 games. As for Sony not being first to the market, well I'm not surprised. Micro$oft has been preaching that the Xbox 2 will hit stores either before or on the same day as the PS3 ever since the PS3 was first mentioned publicly.


Yep, the big N is going to launch a new system in 2004, but they haven't said what it is. For all we know it could be another Gameboy...

In my latest Electronic Gaming Monthly, the Q-Mann reports that there is a good chance that the PS3 will (get a load of this) play PS1, PS2, AND PSP games. That's right...a PS1, PS2, DVD player, PSP, and PS3 all into one system.

EGM has also confirmed a rumor about Nintendo releasing a big PROJECT in 2004, but it's not confirmed if it's going to be a new system or not. My guess is either a new Gameboy or new type of revolutionary videogame. Possibly a broadband Internet service for GC?

-Lasereth

dammit!!!! now i can finally afford to buy one.. and I really should be saving my $$ for the MINI cooper :)

I recently talked to one of the top people at Nintendo as part of my job (reporter with national news organization) and asked him about the Target/PS2/$99 rumors and whether they'd heard those as well. He told me that as soon as they did, they called Target and asked if this was actually happening or whether it was wishful net thinking. Target told him it was just a rumor. No $99 price drop coming.

As for the eventual price cuts for the two systems? May 2004 is the best bet right now. It'll add some meat to their E3 presentations.

Microsoft announced yesterday that they were dropping the price of there current x-box... in Japan only, for right now

I hope the price does drop. two of my friends and myself all had our stations crap out within about 3 weeks of each other... I smell planned obsolesence...

msn loes money like mad per unit sold

wow, $99.. Its worth it to buy now ;)