{"id":1590,"date":"2009-08-05T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/05\/will-sony-announce-a-ps3-price-cut-august-18th\/"},"modified":"2010-06-06T11:58:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T16:58:13","slug":"will-sony-announce-a-ps3-price-cut-august-18th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/05\/will-sony-announce-a-ps3-price-cut-august-18th\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Sony announce a PS3 price cut August 18th?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smgamers.com\/?p=736\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.smgamers.com\/?p=736', 'SMG');\" target=\"new\">SMG<\/a> (via N4G), which is a rare treat.  Imagine a well-written, thought out article on the current state of the Big Three consoles, and how Sony plans to move up the rankings.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And while a cheaper Xbox 360 was unable to halt the Wii\u2019s advance, any gamer worth his salt faced with a choice between the Wii and the Playstation 3 knows that Sony delivers the most consistently reviewed video games and versus a console with no media playback abilities or high definition support, the fully featured Playstation 3 would certainly be the savvy consumers choice for the best bang for your home entertainment buck.  Add to this the impending launch of Sony\u2019s more advanced motion capture controllers that were in development long before Nintendo\u2019s Wii-mote and suddenly even Nintendo should start looking over its shoulder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do not necessarily agree with all points in the article, but like I said in the opening, this is a nice article and definitely worth a read.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this article from SMG (via N4G), which is a rare treat. Imagine a well-written, thought out article on the current state of the Big Three consoles, and how Sony plans to move up the rankings. And while a cheaper Xbox 360 was unable to halt the Wii\u2019s advance, any gamer worth his salt &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/05\/will-sony-announce-a-ps3-price-cut-august-18th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will Sony announce a PS3 price cut August 18th?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-ps3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}