Game Console
Sony offers cut price PlayStation 3
A cut price PlayStation 3 (PS3) with a smaller hard drive and no backwards compatibility with previous consoles goes on sale later this month.
The £299 PS3 has a 40-gigabyte hard disk and will be released in Europe, Middle East, Australia and New Zealand. Sony has also slashed the price of the 60GB model, from £425 to £350 as it hopes to ignite sales.
Sony was the market leader in the previous two generations of console releases. However, Nintendo is now in pole position closely followed by Microsoft’s Xbox 360.
More than 5.5 million PlayStation 3 consoles have been shipped worldwide, compared with more than 10 million each of the Wii and Xbox 360.
The new PS3, as Sony claims, is because
We want to get the console to the next level; we have re-engineered the machine to bring the price down.
