Will Sony drop the PS4 price today?

Today is the first day of E3, and with it will come a number of announcements by the big hardware companies in gaming including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.

In terms of who’s winning in the next-generation hardware battle, Sony clearly has the lead. After launching the PS4 last November Sony has grown a lead over Microsoft’s Xbox One that is in the multi-millions due in no small part to a $100 price advantage. But today Microsoft removed that price disparity from the equation by launching a new, Kinect-less Xbox One for $399. Will Sony respond with its own price cut?

[JoGam]

That will be HUGE. CROWD GOES WOW.

[Angels3785]

That would be another nail in the coffin for Microsoft even if they have a spectacular e3

[LAWSON72]

All I need is Halo collection have fun with your PS4. I will hang out in the coffin with 100 maps.

[Pixel_Enemy]

You keep your milked rehash and i will be gaming with new ips.

[SPAM-FRITTER-123]

LOL MS have made an exceptional E3 that Sony will not top. Sorry but money isn't everything when it comes to healthy AAA line ups like MS have shown.

@Pixel_Enemy thats the thing, you're not getting any this year.

[Bnet343]

No it wouldn't be another nail and it won't happen because it wouldn't make sense from a business standpoint. PS4 is selling very well.

[Majin-vegeta]

@Spam Lol MS shown nothin but mostly 3rd party games.With a an exclsuive here and there.

[Honest_gamer]

To many nails and the wood will get weak and the xbox will be able to get out.

[disKinected]

@SPAM-FRITTER-123

"MS have made an exceptional E3 that Sony will not top."

Lol, keep dreaming. Still trying to find what's so special about this conference.

[LAWSON72]

@pixel_enemy

Trust me I will. :)

[ramiuk1]

after just watching MS E3 i think they failed.
to many videos and not much gameplay,i even question some of the live gameplays ones shown then.
gutted as i so wanted MS to have an amazing show and imo they didnt do enough.

but its my opinion .

sony to announce some good games and a ps4 price drop to £319 for console will kill MS off,which i DONT want to happen.

im justhoping sony release planetside today haha

[parentoftheyear]

Just finished microsoft e3 conference. A few things. It didn't persuade me to buy am xb1 YET. I was a little confused as to the crackdown reveal which was what I was most anticipatING. Is it like a remake or another in the series. From the way the trailer looked and how it explained it it would be like an online coop rehash of original crackdown which would be extremely dissapointing. The only things that interested me where the division still. Evolve. And sunset overdrive. Which will not sell me the console for one game considering I can get the other two on ps4. I think it will take a while for Xbox to being the games switching from their main "tv/media" focus they had before.

[tuglu_pati]

That would be the end of E3 i mean, What else could top that?

[morganfell]

@LAWSON72,

Marked as Not a Reply.

MS just made it very easy for Sony to sweep the day. 80 minutes of CGI trailers for games that will be bumped to 2016, 15 minutes of games, most of which were multiplat and all of which will perfom better on PS4. Sony had the momentum and now that momentum just started picking up more steam rolling down hill toward the E3 auditorium.

[LordMaim]

@SPAM-FRITTER-123: Were you and I watching the same conference? Aside from the multiplatform stuff, everything interesting Microsoft had was for 2015 "and beyond". Lots of CG trailers and all, but not much else. Halo collection will be cool, but I'll be interested to see how all the Xbox fans who were ripping on remakes throw out their back trying to walk back those comments. I'll be happy to play Crackdown when it comes out next year or whenever, but its a long time till then with not much new.

[Boody-Bandit]

@morganfell

I couldn't agree more. The majority of games they showed were either already announced, multiplat or indie games (you know, the games that don't matter)?

I was texting with a few friends and they were all like WTF, I'm seeing nothing that I'm really excited for. I kept saying they will announce something big at the end. They're going to show Halo 5 footage and announce Gears with a quick teaser trailer. Plus they will announce a megaton to close the show.

Even when Phil walked off the stage and the montage started running I was texting them, "this is just a distraction. Trust me they're going to stop the video and megaton incoming." Nope it went back To Geoff and he said, that was MS's press conference. We will get back with our panel after this break and hear their thoughts.

I literally was like WTF!!!!
And WTF with ALL the Halo announcements but no Halo 5 footage? 3 of the 5 guys that were texting me wrote multiple times, GOT MILK? because of all these Halo announcements. We were all disappointed.

I mean yeah Crackdown. But what is it? The original Crackdown was great but 2 was not. Is this a sequel or an online co-op game?

I was expecting MS to bring down the house with the current position they're in. They did anything but.

On topic:
Sony won't announce a price drop. Even if they were considering it? That went out the window after MS's E3 press conference. It wasn't a bad conference. It had great pacing but the best showings were games we already knew were coming out and multiplats that will perform better on the PS4. That and they missed the mark with no Halo 5, Gears or block buster jaw dropping exclusive securing announcements.

[darthv72]

Do they need to? if the units is selling then they will want to keep getting those sales at the current price point.

When sales start to slow is when the question of lowering the system price comes into play. right now...sony is doing just fine.

What they 'could' do would be to throw in the camera at no additional cost. Now THAT would be a slap in the face to MS and them removing the kinect.

[liquidhalos]

MS had a great E3, you cant really fault them at all however there were no epic awesome WOW moments so Sony dont really need to do anything too drastic like a huge price drop, just do what MS did and show us GAMES, lots and lots of games. Cant believe ive got to wait another 6 hours for Sony. Great E3 so far, well done MS and i hope you Xbox One owners enjoyed it. I hope us PS4 gamers get a good show too.

[Mega24]

I don't think non of the two companies will have a price drop, well until next year.

[harbie]

It would have a minimal impact, people are choosing ps4 due to content and overall platform vision, not really on price. A 5yr commitment to a platform isn't swayed much by 100$ difference, certainly won't be swayed by a "0$" dollar difference.

[bigfish]

Why do Sony need to drop the price! its beyond me!! the price is perfect, in fact I would go so far as to say that Sony sold the PS4 at a price to low,, I would happily pay £300-350 for PS4 even right now.

[XiSasukeUchiha]

Explosion! damn, it's over folks:)

[Transporter47]

I doubt it. Way too early hasn't even been a year...

[Honest_gamer]

Hasnt microsoft dropped the xbox one's price 3 times allready? or where the other 2 jsut every store online and in my local area dropping the price at the same time an unofficial price drop

[Transporter47]

Taking out kinect is not a price drop IMO, its just separating the cost of the Xbox and Kinect.

[darthv72]

What retailers do with their stock is on them. MS cut $100 off the xb1 by removing kinect. Not exactly a price drop but more of an alternate sku.

A price drop is taking something that is existing and cutting the price without compromising the contents. thus if MS dropped the price of the xb1 they would have done so while keeping kinect in the box.

[MysticStrummer]

Highly doubtful, but it would definitely be a huge announcement.

[Raccoon]

no.

[LAWSON72]

I really don't think that is a smart move right now, for the holiday maybe. They are selling well with hardly any drop in demand, it would be stupid to miss out on the cash

[uth11]

I agree. No need for a price drop when you've been having trouble keeping up with demand.

If Sony starts seeing the PS4 lose momentum to the competition, then they may.

[astar123456789]

no its going to be a bigger hard drive of 1 terabyte and they are going to redesign a new ps4 which will be smaller and with more memory of 16 gb, with new chip sets to make it cheaper thats what i hope

[SnakeCQC]

it won't have more ram

[Iceball2000]

same price, bigger hard drive. possibility

[liquidhalos]

They will never add more memory to the PS4, that would segregate the community too much. Thats not what consoles are about nowadays. Rumours reported here on N4G stated it was possibly a new wireless device and perhaps a bigger HDD.

No idea if its true or not but im really looking forward to seeing what sony will show.

[DarkHeroZX]

lol dude they arent gonna add more ram. first of all the 8 gig of GDDR5 is still quite expensive and they already have 16 ram modules in the console.(512mb per stick) if they added 16 gigs of it then the PS4 would need to be bigger. Come on I love my PS4 but just be happy with the specs it already has.

[Majin-vegeta]

Lol why would they??It's selling so well they dont need too

[SnakeCQC]

I predict that sony will reduce the rrp to £300 and will include a camera.

[modesign]

they dont have too.

[kingmushroom]

That would be Atomic

[ger2396]

They don't have too, the consumer has spoken. They don't always play games, but when they do they prefer the ps4.

[Shadow Man]

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[patrik23]

microsoft conference didn't bring nothing new. SONY will be fine

[Moe-Gunz]

So far IMO Microsoft conference has been lame. The Halo collection is dope though. Sadly Sony doesn't have to do much. They can just show UC4 and be good smh. Disappointed.

[disKinected]

And I can bet, UC4 gameplay is enough to blow this whole conference away.

Is this the conference xbox fans were hyping so much, I mean it's decent but what was so special about this conference?

And where is that big third party exclusive that MS Has secured?

[Moe-Gunz]

Yes. I mean I think they did well to show they have content but nothing that makes you want to get a X1 at least IMO. They needed a mic drop moment.

[RosweeSon]

Who didn't want a new Dance Central!? ;) haha. Should have some original Wii Fans jumping ship at least.

[Whiskeyjacked87]

Doesnt need one so dont expect it! Sales are solid!

[ricochetmg]

I thought ms did well and now it's ruined to see what Sony had.

[quinten488]

why would they do something stupid like that?

[breakpad]

no need to the price is right for a console so potent ...we need just exclusive games to be announced

[Freeball]

LOL Um, no.

[Alvia]

Microsoft Game Over ............. Sony Win

[mrpsychoticstalker]

What's for lunch?

Sony

[PrinceOfAllSaiyans]

After what I seen they won't need to. All that hype but it was pretty average showing. The highlight of the show was Halo Master Chief Collection and Sunset that's it.

[jegheist2014]

im diehard sony fan i ditched ms years ago with there stupid pr crap kinect this psorts that espn that social media crap that.

the whole confrence was bout games nothing but games sony is bout future of ps4 therell be less games then ms thing is sony has best first party support period.

ps now and bc could make sony lose cuz whole ocnfrence isn ot ognna be only on games.

i might hop back on ms train after what i seen but it wont be till after e3 2015 phil spencer has to prove to me xbox ms futre of xbox is gonna stay vision he announced.

anytime company gets new president they r downhill they recreate spark they have to keep consistency for at least year orm ore beofre anyone beleives it well me of course.

but yea i think ms may have won this just due to it was games only confrence but sony will have most omg moments.

ms had thank god not nother kinect title rambling lol

[RosweeSon]

Doubtful ps3 and vita Sure! Why bother reducing the price of something that is still selling, specially once the big AAA games get announced this evening, I think your more likely to get a price cut on the ps4 around Oct/Nov time when they have actually been out more than a year and to catch the Christmas trade and more importantly take it away from the competition. Too early for a price cut not gonna happen they are announcing big things not smaller and cheaper things, even these rumoured ps4 slims ain't gonna happen tomorrow not less than a year before the console has been on shelves would be a different story if it was a 3DS/wii u story don't hate me it's a fact they both had poor launches even if I was there at day 1 on both but seriously ps4 has had a fantastic start, slimer models and price cuts no chance, This new streaming service and games for it yes!

[TomahawkX]

yea real good business decision to lower the price when it's selling like hot cakes :|

[Ninver]

there's no need to. after a very underwhelming non gasp worthy show displayed by MS today i don't see the gap closing anytime soon. IMO a gameplay reveal of Uncharted 4 wins sony the show. and TLOU will contribute to further widening of sales gap in Sony's favour.

[Nodoze]

No. They don't need to. They are still selling through.

[bu3ouf91]

No way

[360ICE]

Pricing strategies are often less creative than one would think. PS4 is selling well at the current price. AKA, no price drop inbound yet.

[chaosdemon09]

Actually I think tiger direct let the cat out of the bag

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Son...

359 bucks now. Had to pass up if your holding back now ^^

[classic19]

MS showed mostly 3rd party games: look dame good.. coming to other platforms tho. sony will most likely win E3 with the exclusives they are suppose to show.. hurt like that... both consoles has a bright future tho.. get mad at facts you have a problem.. o yeah, ps4 isn't getting a price drop no time soon, maybe a year from now next E3..

[KinjoTakemura]

Ain't gonna happen. The Xbox One will drop below 399 before the PS4 does.

[MasterofMagnetism]

Why would they drop the price when PS4 is still selling very well?

[Jeff257]

Whether they announce one today or not I don't know. Most likely not but I could see them adding in a 1TB HDD and keeping the price at 399. Then all remaining 500 GB PS4s will see a price drop to 349 until there are no more left. They also could announce that the rumored vita ps4 bundle is real and set that price at 499-550. There are just so many ways Sony can go but the most likely is the larger HDD.