No PlayStation 2 price cut for the UK Comments by Ellie Gibson

I thought that the UK was part of europe.... i guess Geography isnt one of eurogamers strongpoints

Damn! I wanted to buy a last-gen console too!

*Throws his hat to the floor*

Well, I'd rather buy a PS2 than a Wii...

So according to Sony we pay more when our economy is doing well due to exchange rates, PS3 launch price & features compared to US\Jap etc... and we now also pay more because of our weak economy. I like how that works for Sony but in fairness they only do it because they know they will get away with it here, people in the UK just bend over and accept it.

@evilfoxhound
Damn! I wanted to buy a last-gen console too!

*Throws his hat to the floor*

Were I you, sir, I would telegraph a strongly worded protest to Her Majesty's Government post-haste! Perhaps even use that new-fangled telephone I read about in January 1910's issue of Which!

As for the rest of you arguing about whether or not the UK should have joined the Eurozone or not: Jesus, why does everything have to be turned into "us vs. them" fanboy bullshit?

Hell, I'm glad the UK isn't in the Eurozone at the moment, means I can mail-order games dirt-cheap from them!

and just reading some of these comments, I can understand why people don't want to be associated with Europe...

@neil_likes_bums
and just reading some of these comments, I can understand why people don't want to be associated with Europe...

Odd, because reading the same comments I was wondering why people thought there was any real difference between the UK and mainland Europe. There seems to be the same mix of reasonable people and bellicose prejudiced (dare I say it, racist) idiots in both. :P

they have been selling ps2s for 99eur for ages here, for 75 euri i might have picked one up

This is pure psychological warfare from Sony. They let Kotaku know that there was an announcement coming, knowing full well that people would immediately begin speculating about a PS3 price cut, firmware update, BC, ICO 3, etc. After a few days of fevered speculation and rumour, they pop everyone's bubble by announcing a $30 cut in the PS2 price. I bet everyone who wants to buy a PS3 but was waiting for a price cut is just going to buckle under the pressure in despair. Pure genius!

/Buys a 360 Arcade to play while waiting for a real price cut.

@tomkuryakin
This is pure psychological warfare from Sony. They let Kotaku know that there was an announcement coming, knowing full well that people would immediately begin speculating about a PS3 price cut, firmware update, BC, ICO 3, etc. After a few days of fevered speculation and rumour, they pop everyone's bubble by announcing a $30 cut in the PS2 price. I bet everyone who wants to buy a PS3 but was waiting for a price cut is just going to buckle under the pressure in despair. Pure genius!

/Buys a 360 Arcade to play while waiting for a real price cut.

There's the thing! Some people (myself included, I suppose) got so caught up with the UK Sterling/Europe Euro sidetrack that we seem to have mised the point: that this is complete and utter crap. I couldn't care less if PS2's were currently forming cocoons from which beautiful or possibly deadly new lifeforms were going to emerge, where the hell is the PS3 price cut Sony?

"You guys are pathetic!
If it's about the localization process you don't give a shite about being "Europeans"
but now if you don't get a pricecut you consider yourself "Europeans"!?
How about adopting the EURO?
Fucking Hypocrites."

How about you take your superstate and shove it where the sun doesn't shine?

If I want Brussels telling me what to do ill move to Belgium.

I don't really understand the reason for this price drop.

Won't this PS2 price drop lower the potential sales of the PS3? Also a 30$ drop on the PS3.. they could have moved that "drop" to the PS3. Do they really expect to sell a lot of PS2s now?

>If I want Brussels telling me what to do ill move to Belgium.

I don't think you can afford it with your Monopoly money ;)

Here we go again... sigh.

*Looks for the 45 nm PS3 again in the announcement*

Nope, still not there.

*Walks away, quietly*

@Dizzy

If Sony are still making a loss on each PS3 sold, then they don't actually want people to buy them as that will just increase their losses whereas I guess that they do make a profit on each PS2 sold, even at the new price.

>whereas I guess that they do make a profit on each PS2 sold, even at the new price.

Yeah probably....

@ The_Programmer

Umm you have joined the US in their economy built on loans...

@ Linkified

Learn your history. YOU ARE A PART OF EUROPE!!!
Your ancestors were from the mainland aka the shitty backwards countries.
You should practice more on humbleness and humility.

@ Collymilad

Yet sucking americans is better, isn't it?

>whereas I guess that they do make a profit on each PS2 sold, even at the new price.

Yeah probably....


I know: let's all go out and buy a PS3 now. If enough of us do that, we'll cause Sony catastrophic losses. That'll teach 'em...

Can we have cheap memory cards now?

welcome to the United Kingdom, a whole new continent!

Does this exclusion include Ireland (Republic/Southern)?

Depends on who you’re speaking to there Erebu, admittedly much of England’s population will have come from Norman, Frank, Roman and Viking invasions, but then most of Europe is a mingled mangled mash from when everyone was invading everyone.

Though the Welsh & Scots could claim to be more Britons then the English, as they were a bit more removed from the raping and pillaging and so some Celts survived and such are not descendants from mainland Europe. The English are mainly Angles though, a Germanic tribe.

None of that matters though as everyone knows continental Europeans smell of wee and all have inferiority complexes. Tally bally ho!

The brits who are complaining now should keep in mind, that Sony didn't raise the price (like Nintendo did with the Wii, more or less), when the pound sunk to a new low... So this is just normalizing the price difference.

I mean, you can get a PSTwo with Buzz (at least 40€ in retail Germany) for 109 pounds at Play.com... and you complain about no pricecut? You are in fact ridiculous!

You’re silly.

"The English are mainly Angles though, a Germanic tribe." lol no they're not

@dangerpuss
Does this exclusion include Ireland (Republic/Southern)?

Nope, because we use the Euro, therefore we use the Euro price. That said, I haven't even seen a PS2 on sale over here in ages. The stores probably have them in the back somewhere but not on the shelves.

Eurogamer posters claim not to be part of Europe, Westminster and the EU may disagree.

I had 4 PS2s, down to poor reliability and maybe over playing them, got a mini PS2 for £90 the summer before the PS3 came out and traded it in for £50 when the PS3 came out.

“"The English are mainly Angles though, a Germanic tribe." lol no they're not”

Well they’re not anymore, and I suppose the correct wording of it would be that Angles mainly became English what with them coming over here and having a lark and all that. Hence where the name England came from, and indeed East Anglia, or Ost Angelnen. Those Angles mixed with the Western Saxons to become, over time, what was commonly known as Anglo-Saxons, or the filthy English swinehunds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Opp...

myth vs. history

As far as I can tell, Sony have said the "Euro price" is dropping, its Eurogamer who are saying Europe.

Interesting read, it is still only a hypothesis though, of course that is much like the generally accepted Anglo-Saxon influence theory about the history of the English as well. I’ll read that though, I like the thought is a Basque influence.

This 'our consoles are designed to last 10 years' is really starting to fuck me off quite frankly.

Let's get one thing very straight. The 10 year plan is being applied to the PS1 and PS2 retroactively. Fact. The reason they lasted 10 years is because they were the most successful consoles!!

If they had only sold as many PS1s as Saturns they would have stopped making it.

The NES lasted more the 10 years (20 I think). Same with the Gameboy. The Jaguar and 3DO didn't.

You continue to produce something whilst there is demand, and stop making something if there is no demand. (Unless you're Sega who pulled the plug on the Megadrive after 8 years in Europe when it ALSO could have lasted ten years.) :(

No plans, no design, just success or failure. What utter utter cunts Sony are sometimes.

I assumed it had been $99 in the US for years...

First Nintendo raise the cost of Wii sold to retailers and now Sony doesn't reduce price on the PS2. All because
of this shitty economic and strong Pound against the Yen!

@DFawkes: yep you are in Europe geographically speaking... just not into the Euro zone!!! :-P

Can we have cheap memory cards now?

Tell me about it. Most games for PS2 these days are less than those 8MB cards.

Silly fuckers.

Sony are a business - they dont put the price down here as they dont need to. They charge more for other items here because they can and we buy it. Simple as. Cant blame them.

Well, its obviously because the pound is a little weak at the moment but...

I seem to remember when the pound was strong, we got no pricing favours from Sony.

So the rule seems to be the following for pound/dollar conversion in Sony-Land.

Strong Pound - maximise the cost in the UK so Sony get more money (while in the PS3's case, stripping it of features).
Weak Pound - maximise the cost in the UK so Sony get more money.

Good to see Sony always benefits, no matter what the exchange rate is, and the UK consumer always loses.

@Erebu: Actually your wrong my family dates back to living as Celts here in England then moving with the Romans back to Italy and to Gaul(old france) then came back. Hmm there may be some strands of DNA in there but not alot.

Secondly UK is not part of Europe, Westminster would were part of shittiness that is the EU Countries but were not we can rely without them. We need the US so we can conquer it again.

People in the UK are British/ English not Europeans.

@2099net: agree.

The reason they are selling them at this price is they have spare chips what were meant for ps3 but they thought bollocks we wont put them in that ...we will defunct that machine and sell more of our ten years old machine at a price that suckers will buy.

@ Linkified

Some strands? You must be joking...
You sound like a nazi...

I like battering the french in "Empire:Total war" Does this make me a nazi?

It really pisses me off when so much people are so abusive by the word nazi you cant even use it as a clan tag on any of the cod games but its ok to use the likes of IRA, RIRA,BNP and all other racist words theres alot more nasty bastards these days and these could be your neighbors.

At least you knew who the nazis were.

@ pollster, balsaboy72

"is" and "like" have different meanings!

Linkified, even if you were correct (you're not) you would still be an arrogant muppet.

Shame about Sony though, I can't imagine there are many UK gamers coming around to them, even with zomgkillzone2isdabest.

Sho Ryu Ken

Probably too late to the party on this one, but here are some facts!

The PS2 is effectively dead in the UK now anyway, so who cares? I have been shopping around for about a year to replace my NTSC phat as the laser died with a new slim, not willing to pay more than £50, and only managed to find a couple around this price in the last month (Swap Magic FTW!).

The only major stores still stocking at £90+ are Argos, Toys R Us and Tesco (many online retailers have dropped it too), good luck finding the system, accessories or games anywhere else -

Comet did a recall sometime at the end of last year and there is nothing PS2 related in any of their stores.

Currys has recently reduced anything PS2 related and there are only dregs left now - I managed to bag a PS2 from the High Wycombe branch for £50, and another from their Aylesbury branch for £45, these were all that they could find anywhere in the South-East!
They had also reduced their games to a max of £9.99 (Singstar 90's at £4.99) and official Memory Cards at £3.99 (if you lived in Bradford, anyway)!

Toys R Us has Silver slims selling for £49.99 in Stevenage a couple of weeks back, pink and black at £90+ still.

If anyone really cares about a price cut, do some work and hunt down a bargain, else buy a 360 Arcade which at £30 is surely the thing you should be doing anyway. Keep watching those retailers I listed above to drop prices and start selling stock off in the coming months.