PS3 250GB bundles priced, detailed News

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Would that be ShopTo by any chance Eurogamer?

Excellent value right there. They're really starting to push the PS3 now.

so is Q4 this year or next?

Doesnt it say October

LOL at first post.

@ lord

You don't see the value of a PS3 with a 250GB HDD and possibly 2 brand new games for £299? Are you joking or smoking crack?

@ svd_grasshopper

Q4 is both 2009 and 2010. I think Q4 ends in March 2010.

Gt5 bundle = success.

@lord

The extra space comes in handy for music, movies etc

I have to say i havent come across a mandatory install for quite a while now on PS3 games, which is also a good thing.

"Sony has not backed this up in writing..."

Hardly surprising, considering that Sony has just released the 120Gb PS3. Confirming that a bundle like that is just a month away will put people off buying anything right now...

The expression is are you high? Or just incredibly stupid.

Brilliant just posted on another post that 299 GBP would be nice, defo getting the uncharted 2 package would of prefered the fifa edition as well as thats coming sooner.

@chessboxer
You could get a ps3 slim 120gb, a 500gb hd for it and GT5 for the same money, and thats not even including the £30 you could easily then sell the original 120gb drive for.

Sony are going to launch their Movie Store at some point, which will allow people to not only rent SD and HD movies but also purchase them too. That 250 GB of hard drive space will, therefore, come in very handy for those people who want to buy those in preference to physical media.

I have a 360.
But with 250 gig hard drive and GT5, i think i will finally buy me a ps3 xmas...
Also i need a bluray player :P

Sold sony :)

At first I thought all 3 games will be bundled. That would have been almost too good to be true but I still think that the price with "only" one game is really competitive as well.

I have to say i havent come across a mandatory install for quite a while now on PS3 games, which is also a good thing.

Batman.

It's not bad, but I'd hardly call it a 'deal'... and please let me explain first :)

You can get a 120gb slim for £229 if you dig a little, and games are no more than £39.99 brand new (no-one sells at RRP, before flamers start launching their trebuchets), so you're effectively getting an extra 130gb hard drive for £30.

Considering you can get a 500gb internal PC HDD for just over £30 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Generic-Hard-Dis... I'd say it's about average value as a 'bundle deal'.

@ jmg123

For the average person, that is a good deal, especially if it comes with 2 newish games, even more so if a bundle appears just before Christmas with Uncharted 2 and GT5.

I've had a 500GB HDD in my BC PS3 for 11 months and it's small. As soon as a 1TB 9.5mm 2.5" SATA comes out, I'll be getting a PS3 Slim.

@ DrRobotnik

Cheap but the wrong HDD for a PS3.

A 500GB 2.5" SATA will set you back a minimum of £53 (only found one shop selling at that price). Most places sell them for around £65.

Oh, and many popular high street shops sell games, especially new ones at RRP. HMV do this a lot but places like ASDA tend to be more competitive.

Given the transient nature of consoles I doubt if too many will be purchasing movies to keep on it.

For rentals space isn't really an issue.

I seem to remember reading a comment by someone here who claimed that it will definitely be £350.

Not a bad deal regardless. Was going to get Uncharted II anyway. Those with the 120GB Slim will do well to upgrade the harddrive themselves, but this isn't too bad if you were planning on a Slim anyway.

chessboxer: where does it say two games? :scratch

@lord
"movies, maybe, but what is the BD-Rom drive for? :-)"

Playing Blu ray discs.
If you have other streaming services then the spare capacity is useful (esp when the new PSN movie service opens up in Nov)

Cheap but the wrong HDD for a PS3.

A 500GB 2.5" SATA will set you back a minimum of £53 (only found one shop selling at that price). Most places sell them for around £65.
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Okay, but my point stands, because the PS3 slim bundle comes with 250gb, not 650 :-)

@DrRobotnik
There's also the bundled game, and the convenience of not having to shop around for the seperate bits. Face it: its a good deal =)

@DrRobotnik
There's also the bundled game, and the convenience of not having to shop around for the seperate bits. Face it: its a good deal =)
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Erm, I included the bundled game!? Like I said, it's alright. It just hasn't set my world alight. I'll buy a standalone I think - 120gb is fine for me.

@ lord

erm... my eyes are playing tricks on me :) I'm sure stores will do their own bundles anyway. Last year you could buy an 80GB PS3 with 3 games or 2 games and a movie for £299 - 320 depending where you shopped.

@ donnie080208

Maybe if the 360's HDD weren't so expensive and small, you might have a different point of view. Plus you can do a lot more with the PS3's HDD than you can with the 360's so if you want your media in one place, a large HDD is a must.

They should add PS2 compatibility to this new SKU just for giggles and shit.

Good value compared with Microsoft, I still lol at £60 for the wireless adpater

yes, I had to get the wireless adaptor for my 360 as cable wasnt an option - it pissed me off no end that even shopping around for the best price the thing was still an absolute ripoff.

Hang on a minute, if you can get a PS3 Slim for less than £250, wouldn't it be cheaper to buy the game seperately?

I want it cheaper not more expensive.

Microsoft need to pull there finger out on the hard drive pricing, the drive inside is the same its just in a caddy as such so they could quite easily chuck whatever drive they wanted in, may still cost more due to the other bits.

With that my 20GB is still fine as I don't need to install anything.

I wonder if Sony will do what they did with the 20gig model in the US and slow down shipments of the 120gig model, then claim everone is buying the more expensive one (because they cant find the 120gb model) and then making this 250gig model the only model, claiming they only wanted one Sku anyway?!!!

Afterall they do seem to like that £299.99 price tag!

gamerg: O_o?!

That is a pretty good price - tempted to swap out my old 80GB phat for one, especially if I can get it with AC2! Running out of physical space under the telly and could do with things that use up less leccy - what with living in a shared house and all!

Also interested in the possibilities of owning movies via download service - always gutted that the UK/Euro Xbox Marketplace is rental only, unlike the US. I want Invader Zim, dagnammit! And if it does what I want, oodles of HDD capacity is a must. And yes, I could buy a nice 500GB 2.5" SATA (btw, for those interested... Samsung 500GB for £56.96), but if I'm always wary of warranty things - if the drive I've purchased dies, tough - I have to sort it!

Also just wanted to add a tiny modicum of defence in MS's corner, though:

1. The HDD in a 360 is NOT a standard laptop 2.5" drive - it's a 24*7 rated beast of a drive that has ridiculous MTBF ratings and is very, VERY robust compared to a normal HDD - that dodgy shipment to Oz notwithstanding.

2. Yes, the wifi adaptor is far more expensive than a PC counterpart, but the range on it is fantastic when using G and it also has A - for those that are interested in such things, it's a very welcome feature. Especially if you live in an area deluged by bloomin' wifi routers all pumping out on the same 3 bloody channels in the G band...

*shakes fist at Sky*

Thats when I will upgrade! Or more of a sidegrade or downgrade when you consider its smaller than the current one...

MS need to lift their game.
I love my 360 but I'd agree the PS3 looks like a much better proposition now.
Actually hoping this will spur PS3 sales and make MS take notice.

@bioreit bullshit on both counts

1. the drive used in the 360 is just a firmware modified version of off the shelf models like the Fujitsu MHW2120BH. These are readily available and cost no more than other drives of its size. They enjoy a higher MTBF simply because they're in a static console (nobody dares move a 360 during use!) rather than a laptop.

2. The range on the 360 wireless adapter is not notable at all - in fact I found it to be quite inadequate and had to replace it with Powerline ethernet.

The bundle is a crazy idea.

Sony shouldn't be reintroducing SKUs at £300, it just reinforces the notion that PS3s are expensive and confuses general consumers. They might now see the £230 product as a 'cheap' version and assume (wrongly) that it's somehow a cut down product like the Arcade.

Stick to one cheap SKU.

Who is stupid enough to get excited over these ps3 with larger and larger hdd when you can swap them out anyway clever way to justify 299 I think not rip off I'll stick with getting the 120 in the spring thank you

p.s saw wireless 360 adaptors for 25 quid in cabott circus in Bristol back in June Oh I was I'd bought ten and sold them on

:(

Europe is truly Sony bundle land.
But hey Uncharted will chart now.

@ lord

We buy 'standard' 3.5" and 2.5" drives here at work, but we don't just buy off the shelf - we buy a half dozen units of each model type we're interested in, from different manufacturing batches, then stress test them in our blades for at least four weeks. Based on their performance, we purchase our new units in batches of 500+. Microsoft carries out very similar testing - one of our suppliers had to refuse our order for 2000 units because the drive we wanted had tested very highly and EVERYONE wanted it - MS beat us all to the punch with an order into the dozens of thousands. We pass the cost of this testing onto our satellite offices, much in the same way Microsoft does. Although they obviously stick an 'extra' premium on top which I do find hard to swallow.

Also, the 360 adaptor has far better wireless reception than my Zyxel USB adaptor and the Intel internal adaptors we have in our HP 550, 6715b, nx7300 and nx6315 laptops and the internal adaptors in our Toshiba A120s. It also beats hands down the range of the wireless adaptors in our Eee PC 1000H (which are widely acknowledged as having excellent range and signal retention), as well as my personal Samsung NC10 and NC20. It also displays at least double the range of the internal PS3 wifi adaptor and even more compared to the Wii - and with much higher throughput rates at greater distances, too. This is all on G band, to Zyxel 660H-D1, Trendware TEW-435-BRM and Thompson Speedtouch 585 (damn you Be*) routers and Linksys WAP54g and Netgear WG302 access points. As well as our Aruba AP65 and AR61 access points (which is how I test the bandwidth throughput, signal strength and packet loss, on both G and A bands). Based on all of this, the 360 wifi adaptor consistently came top, especially in A - it never dropped below third place in any test.

Edit: Typos.

Im a 360 user since launch and i have to say this is the 1st time i have the urge that i really need to invest in a PS3. Sony are doing the job now they should have done a long time ago.

So what price will the PS3 Slim 120GB drop down to if the 250GB is being retailed at £299.99?
Would it drop under £199.99 or stay at £249.99?

PS3 Slim

"...and Sony has only officially narrowed the date for GT5 to Q4 2009.
FFS Sony put a launch date for europe for GT5 AND STICK TO IT!!!!!!

When is the month of Novmember?

Hmmm tempted to buy. Got fed up of 360. Now gettin fed up of wow soooooo....does it ha....

nope! :(

Sigh, give me the ps4 and sony, don't fudge this one or i'll tell your nan about your addiction to the crack!

"Q4 is both 2009 and 2010. I think Q4 ends in March 2010. "

Depends if you are talking Sony's financial year or calendar year.

Calendar Q4 ends december 31 2009.