Thank you, PlayStation India. According to several reports, including one from a Spanish site and one from German site, the Indian Sony site briefly listed a page for PlayStation 4 that included a model (250GB hdd) and a price.
That price was €399 which would probably mean a $400 price tag in the US and around £350 here in the UK. That’s for what we assume would be the basic model, with the smallest hard drive size. Expect a higher price for a larger hard disk, that fancy new PSEye camera array and perhaps a Move controller bundled in with it. Perhaps we’ll also see a nice PS4 and Vita bundle, too.
The page has since been removed but there are enough corroborating reports to indicate there’s some truth to this (although screengrabs next time, gents!)
So, what do we think? Sounds fair enough to me.
Thanks, GAF
skibadee
fine by me I would like a 2TB drive in mine from the start.
Winkle
Isn’t it strange how this got leaked the day before the Xbox reveal…Hmmm
TSBonyman
Why would the Indian Sony site give a price in euros … seems odd, no?
€399 sounds pretty good if true, two thirds of the cost of a launch PS3. 250GB doesn’t sound huge considering the bigger assets which next gen games will require, but i presume it’ll still be possible to replace the hdd yourself, or it might allow you to use an external hdd for games.
I hadn’t considered that the new camera array might not be included with every PS4 – i would have thought they’d be ensuring parity for game developers, especially this time around.
Matthijs
HDD shouldn’t be a problem with all that fancy streaming going on :-)
JBoo
£350’ish maybe? So at UK ‘GAME’ Shop price it will = £500 then LoL:D £350 sounds good to me anything more & i guess there will be an uproar on the internet, still waiting for the uproar about the New PS4. I guess it will come once MS show their new console tomorrow, because you know how nearly all gaming sites just think MS are perfect, YAWN LoL:D
Adam Garrett
Price is a little higher than I was expecting for the basic model, I thought we would be looking at £299. More worryingly is that HDD size, 250Gb is a ridiculously small size. Good luck getting a year out of that.
bunimomike
I’m not so sure, fella. The install that a game might “enjoy” shouldn’t be too big and this is probably the smallest HDD the PS4 will come with. Also, keep in mind that the blu-ray drive is that much faster so we might even see them carrying out installs with less frequency.
Adam Garrett
Then add on how much space constantly recording the last 30 minutes of gameplay as HD footage will take up. Plus games are always getting bigger, some games worse than others. Last gen saw Hard drives start at 60GB and and now were on 320gb and may of us have installed more than that. 250Gb will guarantee an upgrade at some point which means reinstalling again and any games that are funny about moving the saves will be a pain.
KeRaSh
Damnit, the Dollar = Euro price thing pisses me off.
Screw you Sony!
(still day 1…)
mrfodder
We’re not as screwed as much as people think. The euro is worth 29%. Once you exclude 20% VAT, the difference is not quite as annoying.
mrfodder
Should be 29% more than dollar.
DirtyHabit
By mistake my Arse.
XisTG
Usually, at least in Portugal, they simply change the dollar sign for the Euro one: 399€ = 399$
double-o-dave
I can’t see what the fuss is with this price. Don’t get me wrong, I know people haven’t got money to throw around but its now 2013 and £350/£400 isn’t that expensive. Christ, look how much an iPad is for god sake. People don’t even blink at signing 2 year iPhone contracts for twice that! What do you want… A free Sony HD TV too???