Images leaked on web show that the system will be available for $99 starting on April 5 likely to coincide with April NPD and the DSi launch.

Jacob Mazel

After launching in late 2000, Sony's PS2 looks like it is finally about to dip below the $100 threshold in the United States. Images leaked on to the internet from retail computers suggest that the PS2 will drop to $99.99 on April 5. The date is the start of the first full week in Sony's new fiscal year, the start of NPD's tracking period for April, and the debut for the DSi which Sony will want to offset. At $130, the $30 price drop represents nearly a 25% price drop for the PS2 and may foreshadow a PS3 price cut later in the fiscal year ending March 2010.

The PS2 price cut may signal that Sony plans to cut PS2 production soon. Sony has shipped 136.8m PS2s to retailers worldwide as of December 2008, but unit sales of PS2 to stores were flat in the three months ending December 2008 (2.52m) compared to the three months ending September 2008 (2.5m) according to Sony's investor's website .

With the price cut, Sony can probably sell 2 million PS2s in the USA to gamers in 2009, clearing out inventory in store houses and allowing the company to wind down production capacity for PS2 by focusing on developing videogame markets in Latin America, Eastern Europe, mainland Asia, and Africa.

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=3297

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THIS is HUGE HUGE NEWS if true

PS2 is doing so well already

so this is SONY's big 31st April announcement!

disappointed of u ask me :(

@blackstar

lol n sites were saying

maybe SONY would announce the FF7 Remake LOL

Do people still not own PS2's that want them.....?

There's a thread about it.
http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=65852&page=7
Plus the DSi is a handheld and the PS2 is a console, 2 different markets.

i dont think this will help that much in the states though, since most ppl already have one. it also wont affect the dsi sales at all, because their 2 different styles of play. i do think it will get rid of what stock they have, and i think they will discontinue the ps2 by as late as summer of 2010.

yeah ill be buying one since i got rid of my ps3 and placing it below my 360 in my room

does it come with that big brick power unit or will it be a new version i remember they said they were getting rid of it

dont think it will slow down ds sales they should of waited tell the holidays to cut it so sony can rack up some money

PLEASe get the images up

I have submitted the article on N4G

its already at 50 DEGREES

But it won't get approved if the images don't show!

Oh wow. A defunct console getting a price cut to "counter" a revision to arguably the most popular handheld of all time.

Yep. Dashing move.

This is not a counter. When did home consoles start countering handhelds?