PSP Price Gets Cut To $129.99

It’s probably not the best time to purchase a PSP, since work on Sony's next handheld is well underway, but if you're on the hunt, you'll probably be happy to know that the price is about to drop on the PSP-3000. According to a recent PS blog post, starting this February 27, the cost for will shoot down to a more agreeable $129.99 price point. Also, those “entertainment packs” will receive a cut, too. You’ll be looking at $159.99 on those.
    

• Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines  
• Dissidia Final Fantasy  
• LittleBigPlanet  
• Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker  
• Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters  
• Resistance: Retribution  
• Toy Story 3: The Video Game  

• Crisis Core  
• Daxter  
• Monster Hunter Freedom Unite  
• Killzone: Liberation  
• SOCOM US Navy SEALS: Fire Team Bravo  
• Tomb Raider Anniversary

I'll think about it.

Might have to pick up Peace Walker now. 

time to buy! 

meh, kinda interested in some psp games but I really should have bought one before they announced the NGP if I was gonna get it

Great news.  Haven't had a handheld since the Gameboy Color.   I've been biding my time to pick one up so that I could shred through Persona 3 Portable.  That's all I would need.

why not just make it 100 dollars... or 99.99

 Might have to pick up MHFU for 10 bones.

this will have no effect

A price cut after they announced the NGP? Please, its not as much as a generous offering to the public as it is a blatant "hey we need to get rid of this crap before the new one comes in!"

Peace Walker and Killzone Liberation for spare change? Nice!

When pspgo is 99-125 i will glady pick it up

finally.

Definitely getting ready for an NGP launch, be interesting to see if Japan gets a similar cut since the system is still doing relatively well here, and just got a boost from MHP3rd.

I'd bet that PSPgos are just being silently discontinued at this point.

Really? That thing is still more than $100 USD?

I wonder if one day all the PSP's  will eventually end up in a landfill...

Man, I really wanted a PSP go, I wish they'd drop the price on that. No, I'm totally not being sarcastic. There are like 10 PSP games I want to play, and I love the design and digital distribution the Go has to offer.

Weren't the 2000 bundles like $129.99? Sony is terrible with this pricing stuff.

Interesting. If every penny I got wasn't being put towards getting a new PC I would love to pick up a PSP. Since sadly it seems to be about the only platform that people make turn based strategy RPGs of any kind of quality for any more.

Pretty great price for the system.

And yet, as good as this new price may be, I still don't feel the intense urge to buy it. Ah well...

Oh christ what. I was just about to buy one the other day. This is a godsend.

140 for a PSP + Monster Hunter or 290 for a Nintendo 3ds and Pokemon Black?
 
Fuck, Nintendo, you lose this time.

" this will have no effect "

The one system I halfway regret buying. Other than Lumines and Puzzle Quest, totally forgettable.

I need to get another PSP before the NGP is released, but I'm hoping the price will drop even further the closer we get to launch.

Considering that its the software thats the problem and not the console itself, thats a pretty good deal. If you dont have an Ipod touch or something like that I would say snap one up. The media abilitys more than make up for the limited software, and its not like there arent a handful of gems well worth playing. 

" Considering that its the software thats the problem and not the console itself, thats a pretty good deal. If you dont have an Ipod touch or something like that I would say snap one up. The media abilitys more than make up for the limited software, and its not like there arent a handful of gems well worth playing.  "

I am getting dangerously close to buying a second PSP just for the TV-Out functionality of the PSP 3000.

This is extremely tempting... But that money needs to be spent toward the NGP...

Thought it said PS3 and then I was all excited... im a crazy dreamer.

My birthday present to myself just became a PSP and Crisis Core. And probably the new Parasite Eve. Why not?

" Interesting. If every penny I got wasn't being put towards getting a new PC I would love to pick up a PSP. Since sadly it seems to be about the only platform that people make turn based strategy RPGs of any kind of quality for any more. "

" @crusader8463 said:

" Interesting. If every penny I got wasn't being put towards getting a new PC I would love to pick up a PSP. Since sadly it seems to be about the only platform that people make turn based strategy RPGs of any kind of quality for any more. "

thats so true, the new tactics ogre is supposedly great, though there are some real gems like Jeanne D'arc, most of the Disagea titles and of course FF Tactics. the lord of the rings game is worth a mention but not nearly as deep as the others. "

" 140 for a PSP + Monster Hunter or 290 for a Nintendo 3ds and Pokemon Black?  Fuck, Nintendo, you lose this time. "

I should definitely sell my my PSPgo. It's just sitting in a drawer at work, collecting dust : /

I'm awfully tempted, but with the NGP on the way and the known screen line issue on the 3000 series, I'm still reluctant...

And I still don't want one. Go figure!

they should pull out their UMDs already . Cheap shot Sony...