{"id":11207,"date":"2011-04-08T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"sony-psp-s-rrp-cut-by-24-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11207-sony-psp-s-rrp-cut-by-24-in-europe","title":{"rendered":"Sony PSP\u2019s RRP cut by 24% in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that probably has nothing whatsoever to do with the recent launch of the Nintendo 3DS, Sony has cut a massive 24% of the PSP&rsquo;s RRP in Europe, marking it down from &euro;169.99 to &euro;129.99. At current exchange rates, that&rsquo;s around R1700 and R1300 respectively, although &ndash; much like most imported electronics &#8211; the PSP sells for R2000 or so at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The console&#8217;s new recommended retail price, complimented by a whole host of affordable games in the Essentials, Platinum and minis collections, opens up a world of portable gaming for less &#8211; particularly for our younger audiences,&rdquo; says SCEE&rsquo;s European hardware marketing manager Isabelle Tomatis. &#8220;Along with the entertainment services available to all PSP owners on PlayStation Network, there is no better value portable entertainment system around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ve contacted local PSP supplier Ster-Kinekor for comment, but it&rsquo;s pretty likely we&rsquo;ll be seeing a corresponding price cut of some sort locally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kratos\u2019s Blades of Chaos, what a savings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}