PS Vita Slim Announced For UK February 7th. £180 No word on rest of the countries.

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Xen on 30 January 2014

180 quid? WHY? Deary me, WHY?

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ethomaz on 30 January 2014

kowenicki said:

can you elaborate on how it is a great move exactly? the consensus internet wide seems to be the exact polar opposite of your opinion.

A new hardware revision is always a great move... it will move sales in UK at least for some time.

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ethomaz said:

kowenicki said:

can you elaborate on how it is a great move exactly? the consensus internet wide seems to be the exact polar opposite of your opinion.

A new hardware revision is always a great move... it will move sales in UK at least for some time.

At this price, it's gonna move LOTS of Vita phats. I wonder when it's coming to the Eurozone (and it's pretty scary to imagine the price for it there).

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brendude13 on 30 January 2014

Some people don't know what RRP is.

Hopefully I'll be able to trade my OLED one for a brand new LCD one, people will probably be desperate for the OLED model (their loss ).

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theprof00 on 30 January 2014

Seems to be a marketing trick to get people to buy the current vitas before the price increase lol.
There's no way it can be 180

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ethomaz on 30 January 2014

kowenicki said:

I'd love you to put some numbers on that...

I suppose its an incentive to rush out and buy the old model before it vanishes.

Why? I read some comments... maybe I'm not used to UK prices... £180 is that expensive? A new model can't be cheaper than a old one... how is the current price of Vita in UK right now?

Serious question.

PS. Great move is the launch of a new model... not related to the price.

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naruball on 30 January 2014

Well, it's quite obvious they learned their lesson with the wild success of the pspgo and just want to repeat that.

Good job, Sony. Never change. Make sure you bring an even worse slim version of ps3 this year, because the last one was bad, bad not terrible enough.