{"id":3256,"date":"2009-01-25T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ps3-price-cuts-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/3256-ps3-price-cuts-in-2009","title":{"rendered":"PS3 price cuts in 2009?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this point there are only rumours to go by, but if there is any truth in them then June will see the 80GB PS3 getting $100 (R1 000)&nbsp; hacked off its retail price.<\/p>\n<p>The rumors can be traced back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wedbush.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wedbush Morgan<\/a> &ndash; a financial services and investment firm &#8211; which also predicted that Microsoft would chop $50 off the Xbox 360 Pro, taking it down to the $250 mark. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The news follows a report that Sony had recently managed to get its PS3 manufacturing cost down from $690 to $450, just $50 more than its current US retail price.<\/p>\n<p>If the PS3 does come down to $300, then 2009 may very well be &ldquo;the year of the PS3&rdquo;, a title that was expected in 2008 but never really materialised.<\/p>\n<p>Along with some big PS3-exclusive titles scheduled such as Killzone 2, God of War 3 and Uncharted 2, at $300 the PS3&rsquo;s value proposition for 2009 will dramatically increase. And it had better, if Sony is looking to recoup the $2.5billion the console has cost the company to date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?p=11#post11\" target=\"_self\">Discuss PS3 Price Cuts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analyst\u2019s predictions get the rumour mill churning<\/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":[11681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256","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=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}