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Microsoft Dates PlayStation 3 Price Drop For Springtime [Aaron Greenberg]
kotaku.com - 1/8/2009
Microsoft Dates PlayStation 3 Price Drop For Springtime [Aaron Greenberg]
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The PlayStation 3 will get a price drop in 2009. It just has to if Sony wants the console to keep up, install base-wise. Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg agrees and expects a cheaper PS3 within months. He tells Edge Online that Microsoft is planning on its console competition becoming more price ...

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GameDev.Net — ... for starters. Microsoft predicts PS3 price drop this spring. In a move that will no doubt spite Sony to not drop the price of their console, as if they were really planning to anyways, Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg argues that a price drop is needed this year for the console to stay competitive install base-wise. While it is a possibility that the PS3 could start actually turning a profit this year, Sony has been denying the planned existence of a price drop anytime soon for quite some time now. So which games do you think were played the most in 2008? If you guessed any ...

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