PS3 price difference buys a lot of beer
by Dustin Burg 
{ Mar 22nd 2007 at 4:00PM }
It's pretty common knowledge that the PS3 is a bit more expensive than a Xbox 360. In Europe the difference in price is around £146, something Microsoft really wanted to hit home with their latest generous offering. This afternoon, over at the CVG offices, they received a special delivery of £146 worth of Fosters beer, rolled in by beer couriers, and sent to them by none other than Microsoft. Perplexed by Microsoft's sudden generosity, they opened the attached note which read;"What would you purchase for £146...? (The price difference between an Xbox 360 and a PlayStaion 3) Well, for a start we thought you might like £146 worth of beer to kick start your weekend early."
What a great point Microsoft, we would have never thought to purchase beer with all of the money we've saved. But why you didn't share the beer love with Fanboy Towers? We're still a little confused to exactly how much beer one could purchase with the savings in US currency, so we'd welcome the knowledge. Lucky CVG writers ... they get all the drunken fun on Microsoft's tab.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Andre @ Mar 22nd 2007 4:05PM
Gotta love the Apple PowerMac G4 in the background.
Toph @ Mar 22nd 2007 4:13PM
I LOVE this idea, Microsoft! :) Way to go..but Foster's isn't my brew, personally.
King Keepo @ Mar 22nd 2007 4:36PM
So I'm going to take Rolling Rock as being roughly equivalent to Fosters here. At $21.99 a case, and with a currency conversion rate of about two dollars to the pound, you get, er, a lot of beer.
About 13 cases or 312 bottles (so my calculator informs me).
Another interesting point is that with currency conversion being what it is, the PS3 costs UK buyers almost $850, which is insane for any console.
Killer @ Mar 22nd 2007 4:48PM
mmmmmm....BEER...
Some people are going to be wasted for the next week or two. lol
faraz M. @ Mar 22nd 2007 5:18PM
haha that's excellent... personally, it is agianst my religon to drink but still, that one move by microsoft topped all of that advertising by sony that was frankly not very appealing. i can imagine that loads of beer for a fan of it must be much more enticing than a lady taking a dump. haha
jimhuf @ Mar 22nd 2007 5:06PM
offie round the corner does 8 fosters for a fiver thats 232 cans. thats about a months beer.
you cant nock that
MrKniceGuy @ Mar 22nd 2007 5:25PM
HAHAHAAHAH, (sniff) now THAT'S good marketing. Are you watching this Sony? Where's your pooping girl now?!
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/03/17/consoul-shows-more-bizarre-european-ps3-marketing/
Toph @ Mar 22nd 2007 5:28PM
In the US, the 360 is $200 cheaper than the $600 PS3. Let's say instead of Foster's, we use my favorite, Bass Pale Ale..at $7.99. That's 25 6 packs, or 150 bottles. that rocks!
Jonah Falcon @ Mar 22nd 2007 5:43PM
Just what we need - more drunks playing Gears of War online.
notguiltystyle @ Mar 22nd 2007 5:46PM
They should of sent a high def player, wi-fi, hdmi, memory card slots, internal power supply port and 40 extra gigs. But then again you can buy all that with 146 pounds, can you????
ipitch19 @ Mar 22nd 2007 5:50PM
Except you spend that extra $200(in the US) paying for Live for the next 4 years.
Toph @ Mar 22nd 2007 6:04PM
ipitch19, I'd rather pay $50 a year with Xbox Live to get excellent online content and support from an expierienced company than crappy free substance from Sony, that not only has no idea how to offer online services, but also could care less about the gamer they're 'serving'.
(In other words, I'd rather pay for cable channels than deal with free public access programming.)
Plus I'd also gladly pay $60 for each amazing game on Xbox 360 to build my library than nothing on PS3..because there IS nothing on PS3 worth getting yet, and less chance of it day by day!
Toph @ Mar 22nd 2007 6:15PM
I also failed to mention that I could get free water, but i'd rather pay for a good drink instead:)
I could get online with free dialup or pay for cable internet, but I'd rather actually USE the net instead of wait for it on dialup, thanks all the same.
It's ongoing..you get what you pay for, unless again it is a Playstation 3..and in that case you pay for a whole lot of stuff in that shiny black casing that seems to be suffocating the life out of gaming.
Notguiltystyle mentioned a whole plethora of tech he gets with his PS3 for that $600; wi-fi, high def video, etc..well, did he set aside money for a video game system too? I personally can't tell anyone what system fits them, but for me, I want to play games and have a reliable, good online service to back it. If that means I spend more money to get that with Xbox Live and an actual games library, then it's worth it.
BluesmanTLU @ Mar 22nd 2007 6:24PM
150 bottles of Bass! Good choice Toph.
j343 @ Mar 22nd 2007 6:29PM
"They should of sent a high def player, wi-fi, hdmi, memory card slots, internal power supply port and 40 extra gigs. But then again you can buy all that with 146 pounds, can you????"
Fuck that shit i'd rather have beer.
Toph @ Mar 22nd 2007 6:45PM
Thanks Bluesman!
zourskittles @ Mar 22nd 2007 7:40PM
noooo, now if their drunk their gonna do the worst thing imaginable!!
BUY A PS3!
aragorn @ Mar 22nd 2007 8:57PM
you know, when you measure price differences in beer..... it's always a solid arguement.
massive_98 @ Mar 22nd 2007 10:24PM
What more do you want from online? I'm perfectly happy shooting people in Resistance.
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Renaud @ Mar 23rd 2007 8:19AM
And that is why I love the GamingOnConsoles department of Microsoft. I loathe the rest of the da*m*ned company. But Them? I JUST CAN'T!
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OHMYGOD I WANT TO WORK THERE!!!
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andibarnes @ Mar 23rd 2007 8:51AM
What I personally love is the fact that (just out of interest) I logged onto Amazon UK this morning, and they have PS3s in stock! That's right, they didn't sell their entire launch allocation, LOL!
Flashaggie @ Mar 23rd 2007 10:05AM
Look in the background. I wish my boss would let me put up pictures of half naked women in my cube.
jimhuf @ Mar 23rd 2007 11:57AM
iv just seen the advert for the cell processor in the ps3 on play.com. it makes it sound like the processor actually thinks for itself. the processor is only as good as the bloke programming it. check the add out :http://www.play.com/Games/PlayStation3/RNR/3-/1032615/Sony_Playstation_3_PS3_Console_With_60GB_HDD_3_Games_+_FREE_HDMI_cable_+_Click/Product.html
MCHEVA @ Mar 24th 2007 12:15AM
Thats just a slap in the face if someone even gave me fosters I would piss in there eye microsoft hell fucken shamed you there an even more shame to you if you drink that pizzle trust me australia has so many better beers they dont even sell fosters here anymore cause it tastes like the ass end of dead prostitute. If you want a real australian beer get Little Creatures Pale Ale.
Giant Enemy Crab @ Apr 15th 2007 8:10PM
That would actually be a good idea to buy all that beer. By the time your done with it, your HD movies will look just like Blue-Ray! But of course you'd have to give up on online to pay for the beer.