{"id":1630,"date":"2009-08-17T18:57:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T23:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/17\/uk-gets-ps3-price-drop-what-about-the-us\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T11:27:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T16:27:41","slug":"uk-gets-ps3-price-drop-what-about-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/17\/uk-gets-ps3-price-drop-what-about-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"UK gets PS3 price drop.  What about the U.S.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here come the PS3 price drops.  At least in the UK.  According to <a href=\" http:\/\/www.mcvuk.com\/news\/35420\/PS3-price-drops-begin\" target=\"new\">MCV<\/a> (via N4G)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As of today the retailer [Asda] is offering what is described as a \u2018limited promotion\u2019 on 80GB machines, which offers the hardware plus two games for just \u00a3250 \u2013 that\u2019s \u00a350 less than the current UK RRP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am sure this is just an inventory clearance move, but it should be a sign of what to expect tomorrow.  I bet gaming sites are going to crash and burn tomorrow with a glut of traffic.  No matter what happens, I am sure that there will be a large contingent of anti Sony media pissing a river complaining that the price cuts are not deep enough, or that the price cuts will not stop the bleeding.  Oh well, more fodder for the RB.<\/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>So here come the PS3 price drops. At least in the UK. According to MCV (via N4G) As of today the retailer [Asda] is offering what is described as a \u2018limited promotion\u2019 on 80GB machines, which offers the hardware plus two games for just \u00a3250 \u2013 that\u2019s \u00a350 less than the current UK RRP. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/17\/uk-gets-ps3-price-drop-what-about-the-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK gets PS3 price drop.  What about the U.S.?<\/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-1630","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\/1630","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=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2811,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/2811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}