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Sony To Offer Cheaper Playstation Portable As Playstation 3 Release Delayed
Video Games | Mar 15, 06
Sony just made the widely anticipated announcement that its release of the new PS3 console will be delayed until November. The culprit is – you guessed it – changing DRM standards for its high-definition Blue-ray optical disc player that's at the heart of the new device. Lest the consumer dwell on these problems, or worse, just go out and buy Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony also revealed that on March 22 they'll make a new version of the Playstation Portable (PSP) available for less than $200, which is to say it will list for $199, and that extra dollar in savings should set off a stampede of buyers who hate prices with round numbers. This does represent nearly a 20% reduction from the lowest vendor prices for the current PSP, and hey, fifty bucks is fifty bucks.
Anyway, the new PSP is said to support AVC MP Level 3, H.264 and hence allows video playback from Memory Stick Duos. It's otherwise supposed to be fully compatible with the content and network options already available for the PSP. So if you can hold off buying for a few extra days, you'll get pretty much what you would have by buying today, plus an extra fifty or so in your pocket.
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