Hardware
Sony Releases Bucket O’ Hardware With A Dash Of Outrage On The Side
August 20, 2008
If you recently bought the new $499 80GB PS3 before the announced $399 price drop (or the Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 bundle like I did), prepare to get pretty pissed. Today at the Leipzig Games Convention Sony announced a new 180 gig version at the same price of $499 bundled with Uncharted: Drakes Fortune, an unintentionally ironic voucher for Pain and a complimentary bag of “What the fuck?” for the holidays. As MTV Multiplayer already pointed out, Sony stated that the 80 gig PS3 was going to be Sony’s mainstay for the near future. It’s not a direct correlation to Apple’s price gouge and subsequent drop for the iPhone in 2007. But it should inspire a similar amount of indignant rage from consumers who ponied up the extra dough. Read the rest of this entry »
