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Sony Denies Holiday PSP Price Drop
1up reports that Sony has no intention of dropping the PSP's price this holiday season. The idea of a price drop, put forth by CNN's Game Over column, has been flatly denied by the company. 1up writer Susan Arendt thinks they may be just a little bit false here: "I'm going to be the 'glass half-full' person and suggest that by saying the company 'currently' has no plans to cut the price 'at this time,' the Sony rep wasn't just being repetitive and redundant, but rather suffering from a Hamlet-esque condition of protesting too much, indicating that Sony does, in fact have a big fat price drop planned, especially considering their history of holiday price cuts."
This is, of course, assuming there would be sales of the PSP between now and 3 months from now.
In fact, on current form, Sony should be announcing a price hike.
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What? You mean you haven't got your presents sorted already?! Theres only 130 shopping days 'til Christmas!
I thought I missed the opportunity to get a $250 PSP, thanks SONY for keeping them around a little longer.
I for one, do not, want a cheap-ass $150 PSP to compliment my $700 PS3.
I hope they raise the price just to show the world how much better the PSP is than the DS.
In related news: Sony denies plans to release compelling content for PSP.
A Sony spokesman today denied that Sony was doing anything that would encourage potential customers to purchase its PSP portable gaming system, currently languishing on store shelves everywhere. "Sony really likes what Nintendo has done with the DS. Apple's video iPod is pretty impressive too. We can't do anything to touch that and we think that even trying would just muddy the waters and possibly confuse customers into purchasing our system". To avoid millions of disappointed customers, Sony has developed a three point program:
1. Keep prices uncompetitively high.
2. Avoid revisions with features competitive to the DS.
3. Keep working hard to thwart hackers trying to run homebrew mods: as the only group interested in the PSP, Sony needs to remain vigilant in case this community comes up with the great games that they haven't.
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