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Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Sharples has said that the recent comments made by Sony Computer Entertainment France boss Georges Fornay regarding the price of PlayStation 3 have been completely misinterpreted. Sharples said that Fornay did not state that the PlayStation 3 would go on sale for 500 euros and that this is “a mistranslation or misunderstanding of the discussion, which was actually focused on the relative value of PS3 as a Bluray Disc player.“
Sharples went on to tell GamesIndustry.biz that Fornay “summarised by saying that PS3 would be expensive when one looked at the current price of a video games machine, at far below 500 Euros, but extremely good value when looking at the BD and HD technology inside.“
So according to Sharples we can expect the PlayStation 3 to be priced above the current price of a video games machine and below that of a Blu-Ray player. That’s quite a broad price range, with Blu-Ray players expected to retail at around $1000 when released in North America, and the “current price of a video games machine” being around $149 for the PlayStation 2.
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