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Sony slashes price of PSP to $130

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 25 Feb 2011 2:31 User comments (4)

Sony slashes price of PSP to $130 Sony has announced today that it is slashing the price of the PSP handheld to $130, a full $40 discount.
Additionally, PSP Entertainment Packs will sell for $160.

The price cut comes as PSP sales have continued to collapse, and on the heels of Sony's announcement of the next-generation NGP handheld, which will launch by the end of the year.

Sony's updated pricing goes into effect on February 27th.

The NGP adds dual micro-analog sticks, giving gamers a feature they begged for on the original PSP.

The device has a massive 5-inch multi-touch OLED screen with 960×544 resolution, a multi-touch panel on the back and will run on a quad-core ARM cortex processor.



Sony has added tilt-sensitive SIXAXIS controls, standard and front-side cameras, GPS, an electric compass, Wi-Fi and 3G support, and access to Android gaming.

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4 user comments

125.2.2011 15:07

If they were hackable they might sell them but since the new ones can't be hacked it's just dead last gen technology that nobody wants.

225.2.2011 16:00

Originally posted by jookycola:
If they were hackable they might sell them but since the new ones can't be hacked it's just dead last gen technology that nobody wants.
I think it's worse than that. Its dead technology that no body can even bother to hack.

326.2.2011 07:03

Either way they should be brought down to $100 not $130. There's hardly a spark of life left in them, and frankly they need to be removed from much needed shelf space.

426.2.2011 10:47

careful because Sony might sue you next haha.. anyway I'm getting the psp since both my 1000 series umd door and wlan switch broke and lazy to fix it... and my psp slim 2000 series broke in 2008... well didn't break, up and down button doesn't work even replacing the pad...

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