PSP price drop "US only" according to Sony rep

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Originally Posted by qj.net

In a bid to increase sales of the [Only registered users can see links. ] PSP handheld system, [Only registered users can see links. ] and [Only registered users can see links. ] have both [Only registered users can see links. ] of the PSP Core Pack by US 30. The Core Packs, which originally sold for US 199.99, are now priced at a more desirable US 169.99.

While all of this is good news for those who want to score a PSP in North America, it seems that the price drops are not yet a worldwide phenomenon. According to CVG, there's still no [Only registered users can see links. ] [Only registered users can see links. ] for the PSP in sight. CVG also reports that a Sony representative told the gaming news site that the price drop is "a U.S.-only thing" at the moment.

Retailers have [Only registered users can see links. ] to start giving the PSP price drops due to dismal sales figures for the system last year. Early March saw moves by Sony to start reducing the price of its handheld system, with PSP Senior Marketing Manager [Only registered users can see links. ] revealing that Sony is in the process of reducing parts and potentially adjusting the size of the PSP all together.

For the amount of time the PSP has been out, I think it's great that theres been a price drop, but yeah, it needs to be a worldwide price
drop imo.