No - I think you’ll find it is Sony. I appreciate they’re selling at a loss but that’s the videogame industry - make a loss now and make it back off software liscencing.

So yes, they are making a loss when selling UK PS3’s, but they’re not making nearly as much of a loss as they do when they sell a US or japanese PS3s, hence compared to people in other markets we are getting a very raw deal

@Jsar
Nice cost comparison, at the end of the day though you can get a core 360 for £150 or a Wii at £179, i’ll stay away from your balanced appraisal of each needless to say in my opinion you couldn’t see value for money if it smacked you in the chops - backwards compatibility not a huge issue but it doesn’t make it any easier to pay more than other territories when the console contains less components

as for the cost of the machine, £425 is cheaper than any blue,player that you can by at standard retail, cheaper than any PC that you could by with the equivilent power (an equivilent PC graphics card alone would cost you in the region of £200-£300), cheaper than an equivilent xbox360 (machine+HD-DVD drive+play and charge kit+wireless adapter = approx £500 and still isnt as good as a PS3 and has a smaller hard drive)

imho at the moment the biggest rip of console is the Wii, £180 for a gamecube with a motion sensor controllor, score.

You will generally find that if you really REALLY want to want/like something, you will inevitably find a way to do so. I see nothing in this review that negates all the PS3s downsides which have been talked about plenty (eg. backwards compatability, price, over-hyped power).

…and I would hardly say at this stage that Nintendo and Microsoft are worried.

Unless you have a lot of easily disposable income, otherwise the comparison of a £170 20GB japanese model with emotion engine vs a UK £425 60GB model sans emotion engine just doesn’t stack up…at all (sorry but saying we’ve added VAT and offset exchange rates in our favour doesn’t cut the mustard for me)

Sony have ICO team, so they’re fine in the exclusives department (but not in the price department where pride is going to come before a big ass fall)

What is bad news is that Ubi have held back R6vegas till spring and Graw2 till summer, oh and have held back Oblivion for Europe too….

Which is because no matter how many people buy games with their PS3 they still can’t sell that many, as they know Sony are going to be caught with pants around ankels over the next few months….

Add in the US NPD figures and the news will come that MGS4 will go multiplatform, unless Sony want to give Konami a sack of money it just doesn’t make business sense to do PS3 exclusives while it has a tiny userbase..

Interesting that none of that news showed up here but to be expected i guess….i just don’t think comign here gives customers a really balanced view of how they can spend their cash - for big fans of Sony it’s great don’t get me wrong..

Like MrFurious said, there are still plenty other PS3 exclusives for us to enjoy. I still expect Capcom’s exclusivity deal with Microsoft is a timed one and we will see Dead Rising and Lost Planet appear on the PS3 before the end of the year.