Sony Drops PS4 Pro Price in Japan, Glacier White Model Available as Regular Version - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 October 2018 / 3,734 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan and Asia announced it is dropping the price of the 1TB PlayStation 4 Pro in Japan on October 12 from 44,980 yen to 39,980 yen.
The Glacier White model of the PlayStation 4 Pro, which was originally released in limited quantities, is now available as a regular model.
The price of the limited edition Kingdom Hearts III PlayStation 4 Pro bundle has also been cut from 53,780 yen to 48,780 yen.
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It'll be interesting to see how much this boosts PS4 sales in Japan.
And how the ratio will be afterwards between base PS4 and the Pro model. It has been around 3:1 to 2:1 for a while now, maybe this will push it closer to 1:1
Yeah that makes me wonder what the 4K adoption rate is like in Japan.
I don't think it'll boost total PS4 sales notably. It's only a 10% cut on PS4 Pro. As Bofferbrauer says, maybe an improved ratio for Pro.
True it's only 10%. The fact they didn't lower the base PS4 price makes me think this in reaction to slower than expected sales for the PS4 Pro.
Yeah, that could be the reason.
SuperNin Yeah slower than expected sales is surely the reason, when Pro has been notoriously hard to get lately. /s
@Errorist So your explanation is that they are lowering the price because it's selling too quickly to stay in stock?
@superNintend0rk No, but a new and cheaper to produce SKU which finally leads to a long overdue price drop after two years already.
@Errorist That could be the reason but if so, I'd expect them to lower the price in North America and Europe. I guess we'll have to wait and see...
@Super I’m sure they will, question is will they do it before or after the holidays.
Hard to say, but I bet they'll also drop the price of the Slim when they do.
If applied to the American equivalent, how much would the reduction be here?
With yen you can almost just add the decimal point to the 5 digit figure, 100yen is 88cent so 10,000 would be 88 dollars.
So the drop of 5000 yen is about 44 dollars, but if you want a quick estimate with yen just drop in the .
Ie 44,980 becomes $449.80 it's not super accurate but close enough
Hoping Australia gets this deal to. I would like to pick up a Pro by years end.
