{"id":5364,"date":"2009-03-31T09:40:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T16:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5364"},"modified":"2013-05-02T21:17:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T04:17:29","slug":"ps2-to-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/ps2-to-99\/","title":{"rendered":"PS2 to $99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8434\" alt=\"PLAY_STATION_2-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/PLAY_STATION_2-S.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/>MARCH 31, 2009 \u2022 After resisting a reduction in PlayStation 2 pricing for years, Sony Computer Entertainment announced it was lowering the retail price from $129 to $99 in North America, and from \u20ac129 to \u20ac99 in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: The PlayStation 2 remains the most played video game console system and it has truly lived up to Sony&#8217;s goal for a ten-year life cycle.\u00a0The most surprising thing is that the system was able to go this long before the price was dropped to the once magical $100 level.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARCH 31, 2009 \u2022 After resisting a reduction in PlayStation 2 pricing for years, Sony Computer Entertainment announced it was lowering the retail price from $129 to $99 in North America, and from \u20ac129 to \u20ac99 in Europe. Impact: The PlayStation 2 remains the most played video game console system and it has truly lived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8433,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions\/8433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}