In an interesting bit of news from 28 January I learned that the Sony Corporation has developed a CHEAPER (to produce) Blu-Ray device! What does this mean?! Well it means that SCEA could be dropping the price of the much lusted after, infrequently purchased Playstation 3 console! (It also means that the price of those delicious Blu-Ray players is going to drop, but PS3 plays Blu-Ray DVDs so… just get one appliance and not two, okay!!!)
Now there’s speculation all up and down this rumour because SCEA has denied they are planning to drop the console’s price. And there’s reason to listen to them on this one because the 40gig PS3 option has done better in the market than anyone thought it was going to (given its limitations). However, the last time the cut the price of the PS3 they maintained that it was just a terrible rumour up to the day the price dropped. Sooooooo…. there ya go!
You can read more about this over at Gamasutra’s article.