{"id":57845,"date":"2013-08-30T01:39:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T23:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=57845"},"modified":"2013-08-30T01:41:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T23:41:27","slug":"retailers-cut-prices-on-games-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/57845-retailers-cut-prices-on-games-consoles","title":{"rendered":"Retailers cut prices on games, consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57797-online-gaming-specials-this-weekend-9.html\" target=\"_blank\">digital specials this week<\/a>, SA retailers have dropped prices on a variety of consoles and games.<\/p>\n<p>South African gaming retailers have launched a number of respective specials on games, consoles and other items.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Rayman Legends special (Kalahari) \u2013 various prices<\/h3>\n<p>Kalahari is offering Rayman Legends for a lower launch price than we\u2019ve come to expect from a new game.<\/p>\n<p>On PS3 and Xbox 360, the gorgeous 2D platformer is R409, while only R269 on PC and R329 on PS Vita.<\/p>\n<p>The special is valid while stocks last.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57848\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Rayman-Legends-Kalahari.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57848\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57848\" title=\"Rayman Legends Kalahari\" alt=\"Rayman Legends Kalahari\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Rayman-Legends-Kalahari.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rayman Legends Kalahari<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Xbox 360 bundle special (Makro) &#8211; R2299<\/h3>\n<p>Makro has an Xbox 360 bundle on special this weekend. The bundle includes a 4GB console, one controller, a play-and-charge kit and Tomb Raider for R2299.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57849\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Xbox-360-bundle-Makro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57849\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57849\" alt=\"Xbox 360 bundle (Makro)\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Xbox-360-bundle-Makro.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Xbox-360-bundle-Makro.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Xbox-360-bundle-Makro-576x600.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xbox 360 bundle (Makro)<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">PS3 and Vita bundle (Makro) \u2013 R4999<\/h3>\n<p>Makro\u2019s other offer includes a PS3 console and PS Vita bundle. The bundle features a 500GB PS3 super-slim console and Dual-Shock 3, a PS Vita WiFi handheld console, a 4GB memory card and Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale, which works with cross-play on both systems.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57847\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57847\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57847\" title=\"PS3 and Vita bundle (Makro\" alt=\"PS3 and Vita bundle (Makro\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/PS3-and-Vita-bundle-Makro.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"470\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-57847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PS3 and Vita bundle (Makro<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More SA gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56586-nag-lan-rage-tickets-discussed.html\">NAG LAN @ rAge tickets discussed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation-4-news\/57722-kalahari-ps4-pre-order-price-goes-live.html\">Kalahari PS4 pre-order price goes live (update)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation-4-news\/57706-playstation-4-at-rage-2013.html\">PlayStation 4 at rAge 2013<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57206-sa-dev-on-snailboy-and-evolving-demographics.html\">SA dev on Snailboy and \u201cevolving\u201d demographics<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SA specials on games and consoles introduced this week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":56227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2480,1179,3038,21,1623,1827,527,15399,2752,5793,5794,79],"class_list":["post-57845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-bt-games","tag-dead-space-3","tag-dion-wired","tag-headline","tag-kalahari","tag-makro","tag-ps-vita","tag-ps3","tag-sa-gaming-market","tag-sa-gaming-news","tag-sa-news","tag-xbox-360"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57845","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=57845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57857,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57845\/revisions\/57857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}