Price reduction of Sony consoles

Sony has warned representatives of retail networks about fast reduction of prices on console PlayStation 3 and PSP, informs CVG referring to the information received from the large British corporation, engaged sale of video games. Thus to journalists have not told, when these game systems will fall in price. Also it is not informed, consoles after reduction of price will cost how many. Representatives of company Sony have refused to make comments on these hearings. Employees of British trading networks GAME and Gamestation also have not confirmed the information on reduction of price. In January of current year an analyst Michael Pachter (Michael Pachter) from Wedbush Morgan Securities has foretold that in April PS3 with a hard disk on 80 gigabytes will fall in price for 100 dollars. At the moment this model costs 399 dollars. By word journalists CVG, the appropriate declaration can be made already in the end of March on action Game Developers Conference 2009. Let's remind that PlayStation 3 is one of the most expensive consoles of a new generation. According to the last data, Sony it was possible to realise all over the world more than 21 million prefixes. Thus PS3 concedes on sales to consoles Xbox 360 and Wii. The game system PSP which sales have already exceeded 50 million consoles, also concedes Nintendo DS in the market of portable game systems.

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British have bought 2 million PlayStation 3 consoles

People in the UK bought more than two million PlayStation 3 prefixes, the MCV, with reference to the statement made by one of the heads of Sony Maguayr Ray (Ray Maguire). He also added that sales of portable gaming system, PSP has already exceeded the three million mark in the console.
Maguayr sure that in the next 12 months, Sony will be able to sell in the UK have about one million PlayStation 3. To a large extent, this should help the success of the game Killzone 2. Recall that the shooter was headed by the British charts in the first week after the start of sales.

Console PlayStation 3 has been on sale in Europe 23 March 2007. According to Sony, the company managed to sell more than 21 million prefixes. At the same time PS3 is still on the last race in the current generation of consoles.

PSP sales in Europe began in 2005. To date, Sony was able to realize more than 50 million portable game systems. According to rumors, the company started to develop a new, already the fourth model PSP. According to anonymous sources close to Sony, portable console will lose its slot for the UMD-discs and get sliding screen.

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