Sony denies PS3 price cut rumor - but it'll still happen

Regular readers will know I’m a big advocate of hardware price cuts - well, aren’t we all? And there’s one home console that is currently in desperate need of a price cut: the PS3. It’s overpriced and underselling. How many more reasons does Sony need?

A couple of days ago, D+Pad published what it claims to have received from an anonymous source in attendance the Sony Computer Entertainment Staff Annual Briefing held in London recently. This source claims that SCEE (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) President David Reeves revealed a lot of new information relating to the Playstation 3’s future.

PSN will see more investment, LittleBigPlanet and Motorstorm are on their way to the PSP, and Uncharted 2, Killzone 2, and God of War 3 were all on show. But the biggest bombshell revealed by the source concerns the price of the PS3.

It’s claimed that David Reeves discussed the current economic climate and the Playstation business in that context. He then stated that “SCEE will be getting more competitive in price from March 2009 onwards.”

D+Pad, as well as almost every other gaming site on the Web, has put two and two together and assumed this must mean a PS3 price cut is on the way in time for Easter 2009. This would coincide with the expected release of Killzone 2, probably the most important release on the console since LittleBigPlanet.

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