http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-01-27-andrew-house-talks-sony-ngp-price-3g-version-more-interview

It's a good read through and through. But the main points (that haven't already been posted) are this:

- They know that just making the console experience portable (i.e. the PSP) was not good enough, and they're improving that with the NGP.

- Sony would rather not take a loss on the hardware.

- All games will be available digitally, and some games with physical media as well.

- Direct online play over 3G might be difficult, will vary on a game by game basis.

- There are no plans for 3D on the NGS.

- Developers love how easy the NGP is to create games for.

- Neither Sony nor the game publishers they talk to think that simply porting console games to handhelds is dissatisfactory for consumers, and as such don't find it a viable business strategy.

Good read and good news all in all.

Yeah I noticed with some of the software features they are implementing that they obviously spent a lot of work on it. It really is a farcry from the PS3 launch when it barely had any software at all at launch between the OS and games.

The point where Sony would rather not take a loss..could that mean it will be $350 ..I mean NGP looks like it costs double what an itouch costs but then again i think Sony owns the production factories..so $350-400 confirmed?

Nothing is confirmed from the way he said it. Could be $250 or $500 for all we know.

I hope so. Im willing to pay up to $350 for day 1.

I can't say what I'm willing to just yet. I need to see more features and more games before deciding on that.

I think the possible price point will keep going down until the launch, hw parts will go down in prices fast

sony are really doing all the right things with this device...The fact that it's very easy to program for will be a huge plus in the coming years

Given the 'rich features' a rich price could be expected. Im also expecting it to launch Q1 2012/Q4 2011 Japan given the fact that the spec sheet includes a CPU which isn't even in mass production yet!

I think it may be something like $299 for the game only version and $399 for the tablet version with the average cost of production splitting the two so they break even at launch.

Of course we can expect the price to be high, but he didn't say Sony wouldn't take a loss on it either. He just said they'd rather not, which leads me to believe that Sony may be reado to take a small hit on the hardware at launch, and that they're shooting for a price close to the point of breaking even, but may not be achievable in the time frame. My guess would be $299 for the cheapest version, and a few more SKUs from there.

What makes you think there'll be a tablet version though?

Thanks Rainbird, will read in an hour!