Will the PS4 Cost More than $400?

By Brian P Rubin | 07 February 2013 | 12 Comments

PlayStation 4, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 4. It’s all anyone can talk about now, ever since Sony made their non-announcement-announcement last week. The latest addition to the stack of rumors concerns the system’s price—and hopefully what we’re hearing will not be true.

According to a post on SiliconEra, the Japanese newspaper Asahi has reported that the PS4 will carry a price tag higher than ¥40,000, or $430, when the system’s released in Japan. The post notes that $400 is still lower than the lowest-priced PS3 launch unit, which retailed for between $500 and $600 for its various iterations…but that still sucks a lot, right?

Not too long ago, analysts were predicting that $400 would be the price ceiling for Sony and Microsoft’s next-gen systems. I mean, the Wii U came out at $300 and $350, and that’s pretty reasonable. I think that given the Vita’s very clear struggles in the year it’s been out at its pretty high price, it would behoove Sony to try and get that cost as low as possible.

Maybe I’m crazy here. Would you pay $450 for a PlayStation 4? I…I don’t think I would.

Via SiliconEra

12 Comments

Posted by Gonzalo on 07 February 13 at 10:07am

If the ps4 is 450$ the xbox 720 would be around that same price tag I supose
Posted by shrimpaycheck on 07 February 13 at 10:09am

Considering I can build an entry level gaming PC for that much, it would all depend on what games are not going to come out for PC. My current gaming PC is looking just fine for the foreseeable future.
- Posted by L.R. (Screamoluvr) on 07 February 13 at 10:54am
  
  Any PC you build for 450 is probably going to run minecraft and tf2, not much else.
  - Posted by BotheresomeOne on 07 February 13 at 11:16am
    
    You obviously don’t shop smart #neweggblackfridaysale
    - Posted by Tommy on 07 February 13 at 2:10pm
      
      Entry Level PC for $400. LOL
      This is entry level:
      
      Case – 50
      mobo – 100
      cpu – 100
      Ram – 50
      windows – 50
      PSU – 50
      
      Thats 400 and you don’t even have GPU yet.
      
      Entry level PC is $600. Stop trying to act like you have a brother that tosses you PC parts off of the back of trucks.
      - Posted by johnxfire on 11 February 13 at 4:42pm
        
        Lol. You could go a bit lower on everything and bump off Windows. Would be decent enough for games.
      - Posted by Paul on 24 February 13 at 9:17am
        
        Also no HDD there either.
Posted by Michael on 07 February 13 at 10:45am

I’m not getting either of the new consoles this year at the very least, have an xbox 360 right now and I’m getting a gaming pc in the summer, sure the ps4 and 720 will look good at launch, but even a year down the line pc’s will kick their ass again
Posted by Mark on 07 February 13 at 12:10pm

Wait what? 450 USD for a next gen consoles is very reasonable, 2004 the average salary was around 50 thousand/year and the XBOX 360 had a launch price of 400 USD, today the average salary is around 60 thousand, so a mere 30 dollars is more than reasonable.

Only reason the WII U is dirty cheap is because we all know that dirty cheap is going to be it’s only accomplishment.
Posted by Prince Adam on 07 February 13 at 1:45pm

If either system is more than $400, then I don’t think I’ll be buying one. Mainly because I’m still in high school and don’t have that much money laying around, and I don’t want to coerce my parents into getting one like I did with the current-gen consoles.
Posted by Rynn on 07 February 13 at 1:58pm

I’m definitely not, least not immediately.
Posted by Jake on 07 February 13 at 2:12pm

At 450 I could buy a second graphics card and be set for many years to come, suppose it depends on exclusives. I’ve actually considered buying a WiiU for Nintendo games, so I feel like I may feel the same when Sony and Microsoft lay down their cards.