{"id":6452,"date":"2009-08-18T20:44:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T03:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=6452"},"modified":"2013-05-29T22:18:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T05:18:17","slug":"ps3-msrp-cut-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/ps3-msrp-cut-25\/","title":{"rendered":"PS3 MSRP Cut 25%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8848\" alt=\"SonyComputerEntertainment-logo-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/SonyComputerEntertainment-logo-S.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"400\" \/>AUG. 18, 2009 \u2022 Sony Computer Entertainment cut the price of the PlayStation 3 25% to $299, and confirmed the arrival of the long-rumored PS3 Slim on Sept. 1. Reports indicated that Sony has been clearing existing PS3 stocks worldwide for weeks. The original model debuted at $599 with a 60GB hard drive. The Slim arrives with a 120GB hard drive plus a smaller, less expensive, cooler running 45-nanometer Cell processor.\u00a0 The new CPU Is expected to be faster than its predecessor, but Sony did not release its clock speed. The Slim is not backwards compatible with PS3 titles. As of June 30, the PS3 installed base stood at 23.8 million worldwide. In related news, Sony&#8217;s video download store will\u00a0 launch in the France, Germany, Spain and the U.K. in November. More European countries will be added in 2010. HD and SD movies will be provided first, with local content to follow.\u00a0 In September, \u20ac20 and \u20ac50 PlayStation network cards will go on sale.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: DFC&#8217;s forecast for the PlayStation 3 had built-in a price drop to $300 for the 2009 holiday season.\u00a0 We felt that this price drop was critical for the PS3 to remain competitive.\u00a0 The drop gives the system a new lease on life.\u00a0 We are hoping to see an aggressive marketing campaign from SCEA this fall.\u00a0 However, the biggest battleground we will be watching is in Europe.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUG. 18, 2009 \u2022 Sony Computer Entertainment cut the price of the PlayStation 3 25% to $299, and confirmed the arrival of the long-rumored PS3 Slim on Sept. 1. Reports indicated that Sony has been clearing existing PS3 stocks worldwide for weeks. The original model debuted at $599 with a 60GB hard drive. The Slim [&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\/6452"}],"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=6452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8847,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6452\/revisions\/8847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}