img src="http://www.edge-online.com/files/imagecache/article_homepage_large_144x108/kim_shane_1.jpg" alt="Microsoft Wary Amidst Economic Uncertainty" title="Microsoft Wary Amidst Economic Uncertainty" class="imagecache imagecache-article_homepage_large_144x108" /br /pstrongMicrosoft is riding high on Black Friday a href="http://www.edge-online.com/news/microsoft-claims-31-360-ps3-black-friday-sales" rel="nofollow"sales /aand increased hardware uptake following a September price cut, but the company isn't completely certain about sales growth next year amidst continuing economic downturn./strong/p pa href="http://www.edge-online.com/news/microsoft-wary-amidst-economic-uncertainty"read more/a/p

img alt="Sony: PS3 price will not rise in UK - Image 1" title="Sony: PS3 price will not rise in UK - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126964/uk-2.jpg?183601" style="cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" align="right" border="0"a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/sony/880" id="tag" title="Father of PlayStation"Sony/a may have put its foot down when it comes to price cuts, but what about price raises?brbrThe current economic waves have weakened the Pound against the Yen and the Euro, sparking some worry that Sony might raise the price of the PlayStation 3. br br Sony dispels these concerns, saying that they won't raise the price of the PS3. The same can't be said for all their other products though. Says a Sony rep:brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;" Sony a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/uk/4320" id="tag" title="United Kingdom"UK/a can confirm that in the past 48 hours it has communicated to its trade channel that due to adverse changes in the Yen/Euro amp; Euro/Pound exchange rate over the last six months, and with this uncertainty set to continue into 2009, Sony will increase the trade price of a number of products over the coming months./pbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"The precise level of price increases has not yet been agreed, but it is likely that the vast majority of products affected will see increases of significantly less than 33 per cent. As these testing trading conditions continue, Sony does not believe that it will be alone in taking this form of action./pbrHopefully the PSP won't be in any danger either. Chances are though, accessories like the PS3 wireless keypad and the AC Adapter will be getting the heavier price tags.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related Articles:/spanbrullia title="Discounted 40Gb PS3s on SonyStyle UK" href="http://ps3.qj.net/Discounted-40Gb-PS3s-on-SonyStyle-UK/pg/49/aid/126876"span title="Discounted 40Gb PS3s on SonyStyle UK" style="font-style: italic;"Discounted 40Gb PS3s on SonyStyle UK/span/a/lilia title="Launch and price details for US: PS3 Wireless Keypad, AC Adapter" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/Launch-and-price-details-for-US-PS3-Wireless-Keypad-AC-Adapter/pg/49/aid/126721"span title="Launch and price details for US: PS3 Wireless Keypad, AC Adapter" style="font-style: italic;"Launch and price details for US: PS3 Wireless Keypad, AC Adapter/span/a/lilia title="More from the Sony staff meeting: God of War 3 looking great, possible price cuts next year" href="http://www.qj.net/More-from-the-Sony-staff-meeting-God-of-War-3-looking-great-possible-price-cuts-next-year/pg/49/aid/126581"span title="More from the Sony staff meeting: God of War 3 looking great, possible price cuts next year" style="font-style: italic;"More from the Sony staff meeting: possible price cuts next year/span/a/li/ulbrbrimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/ps3/~4/S6cLsMAL5YY" height="1" width="1"/

p style="text-align: center;"a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126938/Sony_qjgenth.jpg?029043" rel="lightbox[article126938]" title="Sony 20Hi-Def 20Amazon 20Portal 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126938/Sony.jpg 3F029043 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin: 3px;" alt="Sony Hi-Def Amazon Portal - Image 1" title="Sony Hi-Def Amazon Portal - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126938/Sony_qjgenth.jpg?029043" align="" border="0"/a br/pbrIn celebration of a brand new "Sony Hi-Def Portal" created on a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/amazon/3269" id="tag" title="online store"Amazon/a.com, a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/sony-pictures-home-entertainment/3559" id="tag" title=""Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/a and Amazon are going to hold a "hi-def sweepstakes" which will last from December 8 until January 18. brbrThere will be 14 winners total. One grand prize winner, one first place winner, two second place winners and ten third place winners. Here's the list of who gets what:brullispan style="font-weight: bold;"Grand Prize /span(one winner)/liulliOne (1) Sony BDP-S550 Blu-ray player/liliFive (5) Sony BMG Music Blu-ray titles/liliTen (10) Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Blu-ray titles/li/ullispan style="font-weight: bold;"First Prize /span(one winner)/liulliOne (1) PlayStation 3 br/liliOne (1) copy br/liliOne (1) copy Resistance 2/li/ullispan style="font-weight: bold;"Second Prize/span (two winners)/liulliOne (1) "The House Bunny" Blu-ray Disc autographed by Anna Faris/liliOne (1) "Hancock" Blu-ray Disc autographed by Will Smith/li/ullispan style="font-weight: bold;"Third Prize/span/liulliOne (1) "Hancock" Blu-ray Disc/li/ul/ulFeel free to visit a title="Sony Hi-Def Portal at Amazon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/SonyHD/b?ie=UTF8amp;node=979943011amp;ref 5F=amb 5Flink 5F6333352 5F3"Sony's new portal/a for more details or if you simply want to do a little holiday shopping. They've slashed US 50 off several PS3 bundle packs (hint, hint, nudge, nudge).brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related Articles:br/spanullia title="PS3 gets price cut, now US 250... via PlayStation Credit Card" href="http://ps3.qj.net/PS3-gets-price-cut-now-US-250-via-PlayStation-Credit-Card/pg/49/aid/126926"span style="font-style: italic;"PS3 gets price cut, now US 250... via PlayStation Credit Card/span/abr/li/ulspan style="font-weight: bold;"/spanbrbrdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=AOKynsCy"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=RklsuQUY"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=aZKYnv6K"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=43" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/QJ/PSP/~4/oReeQnoA5ks" height="1" width="1"/

p style="text-align: center;"a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126938/Sony_qjgenth.jpg?029043" rel="lightbox[article126938]" title="Sony 20Hi-Def 20Amazon 20Portal 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126938/Sony.jpg 3F029043 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin: 3px;" alt="Sony Hi-Def Amazon Portal - Image 1" title="Sony Hi-Def Amazon Portal - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126938/Sony_qjgenth.jpg?029043" align="" border="0"/a br/pbrIn celebration of a brand new "Sony Hi-Def Portal" created on a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/amazon/3269" id="tag" title="online store"Amazon/a.com, a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/sony-pictures-home-entertainment/3559" id="tag" title=""Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/a and Amazon are going to hold a "hi-def sweepstakes" which will last from December 8 until January 18. brbrThere will be 14 winners total. One grand prize winner, one first place winner, two second place winners and ten third place winners. Here's the list of who gets what:brullispan style="font-weight: bold;"Grand Prize /span(one winner)/liulliOne (1) Sony BDP-S550 Blu-ray player/liliFive (5) Sony BMG Music Blu-ray titles/liliTen (10) Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Blu-ray titles/li/ullispan style="font-weight: bold;"First Prize /span(one winner)/liulliOne (1) PlayStation 3 br/liliOne (1) copy br/liliOne (1) copy Resistance 2/li/ullispan style="font-weight: bold;"Second Prize/span (two winners)/liulliOne (1) "The House Bunny" Blu-ray Disc autographed by Anna Faris/liliOne (1) "Hancock" Blu-ray Disc autographed by Will Smith/li/ullispan style="font-weight: bold;"Third Prize/span/liulliOne (1) "Hancock" Blu-ray Disc/li/ul/ulFeel free to visit a title="Sony Hi-Def Portal at Amazon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/SonyHD/b?ie=UTF8amp;node=979943011amp;ref 5F=amb 5Flink 5F6333352 5F3"Sony's new portal/a for more details or if you simply want to do a little holiday shopping. They've slashed US 50 off several PS3 bundle packs (hint, hint, nudge, nudge).brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related Articles:br/spanullia title="PS3 gets price cut, now US 250... via PlayStation Credit Card" href="http://ps3.qj.net/PS3-gets-price-cut-now-US-250-via-PlayStation-Credit-Card/pg/49/aid/126926"span style="font-style: italic;"PS3 gets price cut, now US 250... via PlayStation Credit Card/span/abr/li/ulspan style="font-weight: bold;"/spanbrbrdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=t9eWxG5o"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=Akg3Ey9F"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=MAcwOanS"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/wii/~4/HCYlac2FO_w" height="1" width="1"/

p style="text-align: center;"a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126938/Sony_qjgenth.jpg?029043" rel="lightbox[article126938]" title="Sony 20Hi-Def 20Amazon 20Portal 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126938/Sony.jpg 3F029043 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin: 3px;" alt="Sony Hi-Def Amazon Portal - Image 1" title="Sony Hi-Def Amazon Portal - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126938/Sony_qjgenth.jpg?029043" align="" border="0"/a br/pbrIn celebration of a brand new "Sony Hi-Def Portal" created on a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/amazon/3269" id="tag" title="online store"Amazon/a.com, a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/sony-pictures-home-entertainment/3559" id="tag" title=""Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/a and Amazon are going to hold a "hi-def sweepstakes" which will last from December 8 until January 18. brbrThere will be 14 winners total. One grand prize winner, one first place winner, two second place winners and ten third place winners. Here's the list of who gets what:brullispan style="font-weight: bold;"Grand Prize /span(one winner)/liulliOne (1) Sony BDP-S550 Blu-ray player/liliFive (5) Sony BMG Music Blu-ray titles/liliTen (10) Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Blu-ray titles/li/ullispan style="font-weight: bold;"First Prize /span(one winner)/liulliOne (1) PlayStation 3 br/liliOne (1) copy br/liliOne (1) copy Resistance 2/li/ullispan style="font-weight: bold;"Second Prize/span (two winners)/liulliOne (1) "The House Bunny" Blu-ray Disc autographed by Anna Faris/liliOne (1) "Hancock" Blu-ray Disc autographed by Will Smith/li/ullispan style="font-weight: bold;"Third Prize/span/liulliOne (1) "Hancock" Blu-ray Disc/li/ul/ulFeel free to visit a title="Sony Hi-Def Portal at Amazon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/SonyHD/b?ie=UTF8amp;node=979943011amp;ref 5F=amb 5Flink 5F6333352 5F3"Sony's new portal/a for more details or if you simply want to do a little holiday shopping. They've slashed US 50 off several PS3 bundle packs (hint, hint, nudge, nudge).brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related Articles:br/spanullia title="PS3 gets price cut, now US 250... via PlayStation Credit Card" href="http://ps3.qj.net/PS3-gets-price-cut-now-US-250-via-PlayStation-Credit-Card/pg/49/aid/126926"span style="font-style: italic;"PS3 gets price cut, now US 250... via PlayStation Credit Card/span/abr/li/ulspan style="font-weight: bold;"/spanbrbrimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/ps3/~4/KmOj7vjl9JE" height="1" width="1"/

p style="text-align: center;"img alt="PlayStation Credit Card - Image 1" title="PlayStation Credit Card - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126926/ps3-deal.png?534730" style="cursor: pointer;" align=""br/pbrWell, theoretically, the PS3 span style="font-style: italic;"is/span getting a "price cut" in the sense that you can purchase a unit for cheaper. Waaay, cheaper. a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/sony/880" id="tag" title="Father of PlayStation"Sony/a's offering a deal: "Get a new PlayStation 3 system for as low as US 250 !" Whew - that's like... Nintendo Wii cheap! Definitely a steal, yes? But you'd have to read the fine print. It is banal to dismiss asterisk signs, especially in deals.brbrThis deal is actually more of a promotional campaign for the PlayStation a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/credit-card/4634" id="tag" title="plastic money"Credit Card/a, rather than a permanent price cut. As announced a few weeks ago, the PlayStation Credit Card will be ushering a PS3 discount for the rest of the year, thus giving everyone that temporary US 150 discount.brbrThere are three ways to start your journey with the Plastic of Unlimited Glory/Bankruptcy. If you're taking that plunge to the land of no return, you can apply for a PlayStation Credit Card via Sony.com, SonyRewards.com, or and a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/sony-style-store/10295" id="tag" title="retail site"Sony Style store/a. (Or you can head to the source link below).brbrGood luck to all those applying for a PlayStation Credit Card!brbrspan style="font-style: italic;" US 250: Reduced pricing based on purchase of PS3 at the #36;399 MSRP, does not include tax or shipping and handling fees./spanbrbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related articles:/spanbrullia style="font-style: italic;" title="Kiss your money goodbye, the PlayStation Credit Card is here" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/Kiss-your-money-goodbye-the-PlayStation-Credit-Card-is-here/pg/49/aid/126647"Kiss your money goodbye, the PlayStation Credit Card is here/abr/li/ulbrbrimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/ps3/~4/7nVAfVhtpno" height="1" width="1"/

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