{"id":50715,"date":"2013-02-18T11:33:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T09:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=50715"},"modified":"2013-02-18T11:41:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T09:41:33","slug":"ps-vita-price-cut-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/50715-ps-vita-price-cut-revealed","title":{"rendered":"PS Vita price cut revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has revealed that its PS Vita will be undergoing a price cut in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The price cut applies to both the 3G and Wi-Fi models of the handheld, which will come into effect from 28 February 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Both models will cost \u00a519,980, which is a significant drop from the original launch price.<\/p>\n<p>That would equate to around R1,880 (without additional import and duty costs), if of course the price drop reaches the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>This could be a step in the right direction for Sony, as the Vita has been criticised for lacking an extensive game library, with very few titles on the horizon as well.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we\u2019ll see some Vita games announced at <a title=\"Playstation 4 fever peaks ahead of mystery Sony event\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/50066-playstation-4-fever-peaks-ahead-of-mystery-sony-event.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sony\u2019s secretive event<\/a>, which is set to take place on 20 February 2013 and rumoured to be the reveal of the PS4.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"Playstation Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jp.playstation.com\/cp\/2013spring_psvita\/\" target=\"_blank\">Playstation Japan\u00a0<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Sony gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/50347-sony-is-still-losing-money-ps-vita-props-up-gaming-division.html\">Sony is still losing money, PS Vita props up gaming division<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/50334-xbox-720-requires-always-on-internet-ps4-gets-cloud-gaming.html\">Xbox 720 requires always-on Internet, PS4 gets cloud gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/50066-playstation-4-fever-peaks-ahead-of-mystery-sony-event.html\">Playstation 4 fever peaks ahead of mystery Sony event<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49718-fresh-ps4-specs-leaked-new-controller-user-accounts-detailed.html\">Fresh PS4 specs leaked, new controller, user accounts detailed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49653-next-gen-ps4-orbis-and-xbox-durango-hardware-details.html\">Next-gen PS4 Orbis and Xbox Durango hardware details<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49614-sony-working-on-new-ps4-controller-design.html\">Sony working on new PS4 controller design<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playstation Vita models finally get a revised price<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":50716,"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":[31,1643,527,8888,8889,8890,4859,71,819],"class_list":["post-50715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-playstation-vita","tag-ps-vita","tag-ps-vita-price","tag-ps-vita-price-cut","tag-ps-vita-price-drop","tag-sce","tag-sony","tag-ster-kinekor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50715","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50718,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50715\/revisions\/50718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}