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In reply to a post by time2die:

Can have mine if you like,it's sitting on a shelf waiting for a home in Blockbusters

150 and you're on

Price drop. £170 brand new
http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/ps-vit...

I got a Vita two weeks ago with 8 gg memory card with 10 game download pack and one month PS+ for £169.

So the price drop has just been made official rather than being special offer.

I just got tempted yet again on my visit to blockbusters in my local high street ,they where offering the vita at £149.99,and that was for either the wifi only version or with the 3G.

So previously the wifi/3G was £230 and today it's £150.

After only dumping my Vita a couple of months back I decided to buy another after mrnelster kept harping on about them and the vita titles on the horizon showed at the Gamescom yesterday,then you have that remote play thing which I have not looked into as of yet.

To be honest that Sony Conference yesterday was extremely boring and the camera work for a live stream was appalling so I don't know what happened there or what the logic was for it.

The playstation 4 live reveal in feb was brilliant without the stupid camera issues.

do sony have their own exchange rate?

whats this?

$399/£349/�399

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

do sony have their own exchange rate?

whats this?

$399/£349/�399

Regional prices have always been odd and there are several factors to take in.

1 - Local taxation, US taxes are added at the till as there can not only be state to state variations but also some cities also add their own VAT on top which can have a big range depending on where you live,

In the UK and EU taxes have to be included in the pricing structure.

2 - Currency fluctuations. Companies due to where they are based need to build in some wriggle room on the exchange rate to allow for currency market fluctuations and recently we have seen some very big ones. In the last 10 years we have had 2 USD to the pound slump to 1.5USD. I have seen NZ dollars be anywhere between $4.50 and $2.50 to the pound.

Companies don't want to be constantly shifting prices in line with the markets so they will pick a price according to what they hope the average exchange rate over the next year or so.

Nice knowledge there Adrian .

Besides its nothing new we always pay Top Dollar for everything here in Rip Of Britain the once so called great nation ripped apart by incompetent MPs only interested in lining there own pockets along with the do gooders that do everything apart from anything good.

Thanks mate.

Sainsbury's have a decent deal on too, £175 with the ten game bundle and 8 gig card.

Sainsbury's is apparently good on their memory cards as well.

32 GB vita memory cards are now £43 and 16 GB is £25.

Yeah, I was thinking about getting the 16GB instead of the 8 GB + game pack. I don't know how much time I would spend with the majority of those games and Uncharted is down to 20 quid.

Stop it you're making me want a PS Vita???? I already have two PSP and never use them :/


Come to think of it I also have a Nintendo DS, a Sega Game Gear and an Atari Lynx

Edited by deleted (Wed 21-Aug-13 22:32:40)