Apparently a poster on GAF is not normal. They were actually reading the official rules of a Playstation contest and in the rules it states the retail value of the Vita is $180. Of course the current price of a Vita is $200, so we have the possibility that its either a typo ($179 is pretty close to $199) or its set to match an upcoming Vita price drop at E3.

http://us.playstation.com/community/roadtogreatness/official-rules/

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Might help sales a little but without any major games announed (which im sure they will only have indies) sales wont be that great

If so, that's good. I mean, I think the current bundle is a steal, but if it helps sell the Vita, who am I to judge?

Is there a hint that this may be in one way, shape, form or another influenced by Nintendo?

That will be good however Vita needs a killer game but this is better than nothing!

Price drops have proven to be ineffective for the PS Vita, not sure why they think a $20 drop would help at all.

You mean beyond the fact that 3DS is destroying it in the market and Sony will try to compete as best it can?

excellent , the "vita plan" coming into full effect,be afraid

Well look at that.

They really need to get to at least the 150 price point. I thought the Vita would a lot better than it has when it was first announced. I should have known that first price point (which matched the overpriced 3DS price point) wasn't going to get it off to a good start (considering Nintendo had to drop the 3DS price asap along with a couple system seller games to get it going again). Vita will continue to struggle till it reaches an acceptable price and has a decent amount of system sellers. Does it have good games? I'm sure it has plenty but it lacks system sellers.