Sony Shoots Down PS3 Price Cut Rumors

<p>Seeing as the PS4 is incoming this holiday season&comma; many are expecting the PS3 to get its price chopped to encourage late adopters to finally join in on the &lpar;now&rpar; past generation of gaming&period; However&comma; Fergal Gara who is the marketing director at PlayStation UK has shot down this speculation&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&&num;8220&semi;There&&num;8217&semi;s no plans as yet&period; The PlayStation 3 is a system where it hasn&&num;8217&semi;t been particularly easy to get the costs down&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Furthermore&comma; Fergal Gara said that&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&&num;8220&semi;We continue to look at opportunities&comma; there may or may not be any more&comma; I genuinely can&&num;8217&semi;t answer to that&period; But it will certainly be a more keenly priced machine in relative to PlayStation 4&period; It will sit there as a viable entry level machine for years to come&period; It will be different by territory as to how long its life is&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s still a lot of love for PS3&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Would you purchase a PS3 if a price drop was to occur&quest; What would the price have to be to make you test out Sony&&num;8217&semi;s console&quest; Let us know your thoughts at our Facebook page&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamesindustry&period;biz&sol;articles&sol;2013-06-19-sony-playstation-4-has-given-vita-a-shot-in-the-arm">GamesIndustry International<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;uk&period;gamespot&period;com&sol;news&sol;sony-has-no-plans-for-ps3-price-cut-6410441">GameSpot<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;996cbe59-3feb-438b-8245-f822354a444a" alt&equals;"" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;