Original URL: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/01/24/sony_denies_new_ps3_pricing/
If you’re hoping to bag a cut-price PS3 then Sony has some bad news in store. Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has stated that rumours of a $299 (£150/€210) PS3 are nothing more than wishful thinking.
Speculation about a newly priced PS3 appear to have stemmed (http://forums.slickdeals.net/showpost.php?p=9641010&postcount=8) from Slickdeals.net, where one user’s thread claims that a $299 version of the console will be launched on 28 January.
However, SCEA’s since confirmed (http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=157928) to gaming website Gamepro that it has “no plans for any pricing announcements on PS3", instead verifying that any news of a price change is "purely rumour and speculation”.
The news will be a double disappointment for penny-pinching gamers. Earlier this week, Sony denied that a white PS3 rollout (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/01/23/white_ps3_fcc/) was in the works for Europe and the US, despite it lodging documents with the US Federal Communications Commission for a Ceramic White PS3.
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