{"id":61714,"date":"2014-01-31T10:39:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T08:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=61714"},"modified":"2014-01-31T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T08:45:34","slug":"microsoft-offers-usd100-for-ps3-trade-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61714-microsoft-offers-usd100-for-ps3-trade-ins","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft offers USD100 for PS3 trade-ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is offering a $100 discount on the purchase of an Xbox One console when trading in an old console, including Xbox 360 and PS3.<\/p>\n<p>The offer is valid in retail stores in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico, and is limited to one trade-in per customer.<\/p>\n<p>This will knock down the price down from US$499 to US$399 &#8211; in line with the launch price of the PS4.<\/p>\n<p>The trade-in money doesn&#8217;t have to be used for an Xbox One, but if the purchase goes toward something else, you may not get the full $100 value.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there is no sign of the Xbox One in South Africa, but the <a title=\"Xbox One SA launch date and many other rumours\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/61696-xbox-one-sa-launch-date-and-many-other-rumours.html\">current rumours peg it for an October 2014 launch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"Microsoft Store\" href=\"Store Offers - Microsoft Store http:\/\/content.microsoftstore.com\/en-us\/offers\/fashionsquare#offer-trade-console\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Store<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61709-new-tax-to-hit-online-gaming-in-sa.html\">New tax to hit online gaming in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SA consoles and games price hikes imminent\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61706-sa-consoles-and-games-price-hikes-imminent.html\"><strong>SA consoles and games price hikes imminent<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The truth behind SA game prices\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/55940-the-truth-behind-sa-game-prices.html\"><strong>The truth behind SA game prices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/61410-historical-console-market-growth-in-sa-revealed.html\">Historical console market growth in SA revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps4\/61713-ps4-price-to-increase-in-sa-due-to-weak-rand.html\">PS4 price to increase in SA due to weak rand<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does Microsoft want with your PS3?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":59969,"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":[31,15399,1853,10065],"class_list":["post-61714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-ps3","tag-playstation4","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61714","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61715,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61714\/revisions\/61715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}