{"id":562,"date":"2007-07-09T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-09T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T09:08:00","slug":"sony-announces-ps3-price-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/562-sony-announces-ps3-price-cut.html","title":{"rendered":"Sony announces PS3 price cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PS3 with a 60-gigabyte hard drive will sell for US 499, which should assist in doubling sales of Sony&rsquo;s gaming console. The new 80 GB model will go on sale in August for US 599.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sony.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sony<\/a>&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playstation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Playstation 3<\/a> is struggling to keep up with Nintendo&rsquo;s Wii and Microsoft&rsquo;s Xbox despite its superior technology, and many believe that lower prices will make it more competitive.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo&rsquo;s Wii retails for around half the price of the Playstation 3 while Microsoft&rsquo;s Xbox 360 Elite is priced at US 479-00.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=80655\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has announced that it will cut the price of its Playstation 3 by US 100-00, and introduce a new 80 GB PS3 which will retail for US 599-00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}