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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:24PM BlackedOut said

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Nice pricing.
Microsoft are you taking notes?
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:28PM BlackedOut said

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Oh wait, pound to dollar ratio makes this a saving on the Eye + Move of $5.
I jumped the gun a little on that one.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:46PM AnimaOnline said

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@BlackedOut
The difference in RRP (recommended retail price) is actually $22.04. Judging from the price at GameStop ($99.99) the actual difference if you were to buy from ShopTo in the United Kingdom is $33.19. That's pretty substantial.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:57PM prodigy69 said

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@AnimaOnline

yup ShopTo.net is the place to buy from in the uk.

they're great
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 6:34PM BlackedOut said

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Anima, In the UK you don't get the full game, you get demos. That's why I just calculated it as the combined price of the Move wand and PSEye.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:24PM Wag said

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Wow, nice of them to give people nothing for the same price.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:34PM AnimaOnline said

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@Wag
Current conversion rates would make 50 British pounds = 77.95 U.S. dollars. It's noticeably cheaper.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:37PM AnimaOnline said

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Also, note that that's the RRP. In the UK it actually selling for £42.85 ($66.80).
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 6:08PM MrAhh said

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@AnimaOnline lol, you have to admire the quick to hate people though, I wish I hadn't taken that time out to go to xe.com to do the conversion and just read your post.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:30PM Dustin F said

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I'm sure this has been covered, but a lot of people bought Eyes... is there a bundle for them at comparable savings? This could be a $70 setup for me, which for these demos, the sports game, and the controller, would be a hilariously good value.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:36PM squallgengar said

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@Dustin F
I never had to buy eyes, thankfully. I was already born with two.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:32PM trent steel said

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in that position the move controller looks like a fleshlight
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:35PM AnimaOnline said

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@trent steel
You would know.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:35PM squallgengar said

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@trent steel

Really? Still? :/
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:38PM TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2 said

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@trent steel

I know what one looks like (thanks to the Internet)... And I don't even see a slight resemblance.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:39PM Oily Taint said

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@trent steel

You may have just invented something hellish and diabolical.

Motion controlled porn.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 5:14PM Dustin F said

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@Oily Taint

LOL, that's old school. Call that girl in MGS4 with your codec and use the Sixaxis motion control.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 5:16PM Oily Taint said

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@Dustin F

There's a hot girl in MGS4?

Just kidding.

She's on my lunchbox.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 5:52PM Dustin F said

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@Oily Taint

She's one of the most annoying women ever portrayed in a game. Of course, this is mainly in MGS2, when Raiden is fighting for his life amid calls of 'do you remember what we did on April 14th? Why don't we talk about our relationship?'

Granted... not entirely unrealistic, but ,,,, ugh
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Posted: Jul 30th 2010 10:54AM Assassin said

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@Dustin F

It's actually April 30.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:37PM Grey said

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Good for the UK. I think what if Sony wants to get into the casual market they need to take a page out of Microsoft's book and sell a no harddrive Sku for the PS3 priced at $299. From a consumer standpoint, if I was interested in this motion control gaming "revolution" and didn't have a 360/PS3 I would probably get the 360 Kinect bundle because it would be $100 cheaper if the rumors that the move bundle being $399 are true.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 5:54PM Dustin F said

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@Grey

A no hard drive console is a horrible console that is far less profitable. MS can pretend they had a brilliant business plan because they could face huge, huge loses for a million years, but sony can't take a risk like that.

And a hard drive isn't expensive. More than paid for when you consider people can buy things online and many PS3 games require an HDD install.

No, Sony was wise to copy MS's older playbook in always having a hard drive.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 8:05PM McDuckScrooged said

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@Grey You would be ultimately conning yourself..

What you dont understand is that all ps3 skus have shipped with a hdd this in turn guarantees to developers that there will always be a hdd for the user and means that they can use the hdd to boost and speed up read operations. This is a given on all ps3s, regardless, the developers are always given the hdd as a fall back and all users will always have the ability to have whatever storage they want.

With the 4GB Xbobx 360 bundle, while it would be possible to play most games, within a short period of time I guarantee that you would be forced to buy a drive and the drives would retail around $100 which would mean that in total you would end up spending the $400 anyway..

By all means feel free to do whatever you want to do.. Makes no difference to me, I know Sony would never offer a driver-less version of the ps3 and for that I am really glad and I am also glad that I can change the drive to whatever I want.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:37PM Kid Icarus said

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for once the US has the better deal than Europe
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:45PM sigma8 said

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@Kid Icarus
Do they? 50 GBP is cheaper than 99 USD. Depends on how much you want the Champions game, I guess.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:49PM AnimaOnline said

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@Kid Icarus
As I've explained above, the deal is actually better in the UK. You've also got to remember that the price in the article is the RRP (Recommended Retail Price). It's actually selling for £42.85 ($66.80).
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:50PM AnimaOnline said

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Well, if you were intending to buy Sports Champions then it works out at the same price. We just get a load of demos on top of that. I guess it comes down to whether or not you wanted Sports Champions.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 5:02PM Kid Icarus said

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@Kid Icarus

I was talking about the game bundled with it, a bunch of demos, while neat, seems to be a lesser value...especially with how fun Sports Champions is
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 5:07PM AnimaOnline said

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@Kid Icarus
Sports Champions is only $38.74 in the UK. You could buy the Starter Kit and Sports Champions and it'd come to the same price as the US Starter Kit.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 4:50PM GordoJones88 said

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Is Echochrome 2 a Move launch title in September? Anybody?
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 5:05PM MLC said

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There will be a demo disc in the US version of the PS Move bundle as well. It's not 9 games though. I read somewhere, PS Blog I think, that the same demos included w/ the bundle will be on PSN to download as well.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 5:16PM Dustin F said

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@Sally

I love Prologue. I'm happy I bought it. I appreciate the sympathy you are showing me for this victimization, but I don't need any... it was worth every penny!
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 5:29PM scratchh said

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well what with the price brakedowns provided (thanks all!) it seems the UK wins by mere fact of greater choice in the matter. dont want sports champions? don't get it.

but i don't care, i want sports champions and am going to get the $99 bundle in the US regardless. would be nice if others in the US had the option of getting a bundle without it if they aren't interested though.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2010 6:28PM Goaliegeek said

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I already have the Eye. Just gonna get the Move. maybe 2 of them. Wish Sony would include a demo disc with the purchase of a move controller (US). Or atleast have a form you can fill out to have one sent to you.
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Posted: Jul 30th 2010 5:57AM thealtenbach said

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I love how they are completely ignoring us people who already have an Eye, how about a bundle without one Sony?
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