They don't explicitly say PS3, but seems like this'll apply to all the Sony brand

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/3496632/Sony-to-raise-prices-by-up-to-a-third-to-offset-tumbling-value-of-the-pound.html

Is this the right descicion for Sony? Well at least for this descicion'll not impact on this year to costumers. 

what did sony guys think ??

Lol @ this recent topic:

http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=49965

The problem is: England is in the European Union which means ordering something from Amazon.co.uk is now almost 1/3 cheaper than ordering from amazon.de amazon.fr etc.

In other words Games cost ~42Euro when bough from amazon.co.uk and 60 Euro when bought from the local amazon.

Weak pound rules.

Kyros said: Weak pound rules.

For YOU. People who actually live in the UK find prices are rising rapidly.

 

Wow. I don't see them doing that on the PS3.

Life can be cruel n'est ce pas? Excuse my limited compassion. For a decade we Germans have been the number one exporter in the world but nevertheless had near flat GDP growth, flat house prices, wage restraints, high taxes ...
While the English had a boom build on financial services and increasing house prices. (Do you actually "produce" something?)
I mean I wish you luck but seriously that's how it is and I think its cool that I can profit a bit from it.

Kyros said: For YOU. People who actually live in the UK find prices are rising rapidly. Life can be cruel n'est ce pas? Excuse my limited compassion. For a decade we Germans have been the number one exporter in the world but nevertheless had near flat GDP growth, flat house prices, wage restraints, high taxes ... While the English had a boom build on financial services and increasing house prices. (Do you actually "produce" something?) I mean I wish you luck but seriously that's how it is and I think its cool that I can profit a bit from it.

I hadn't thought about it like that. I suppose that since we 'run' the economy (financial services) we do it on terms favourable to us. Yet the countries which manufacture stuff do less well than us - Africa provides most of our food, for example, but they are paid much less than it is worth in our country.

I would just say that, despite the impressive figures like GDP growth and house prices our country has had, due to the stupidity of our Labour government we as people have not benefited at all (schools and hospitals have not improved; taxes remain high; our infrastructure hasn't been improved; government and personal debt has never been higher; etc.). Now we are suffering a recession and the government doesn't have a surplus they can now inject to help us - they have a huge deficit.

 

I think I have to put my statements into perspective because here I would have to disagree. I made a tour through southern England and Wales in the mid-nineties and I was in London again last year and England DEFINITELY has improved a lot. ITs sometimes too expensive and sometimes the infrastucture still is creaky but wow things have changed.
You just have to look at the HDI human development index (this tracks things like healthcare, schooling, money ...) to see huge improvements in the UK during the 90s
http://hdrstats.undp.org/countries/country_fact_sheets/cty_fs_GBR.html

I mean providing sophisticated financial and other services is a good thing per se and Britain has many things going for it (Much less red tape than in Germany for example) . But that doesn't change the fact that I have no problem profiting a bit from your hopefully short downturn (I mean we also have no party at the moment)

So it looks like a price drop will be replaced by a price hike? The sales will probably surge nicely before the hike -- it's a very good move by Sony.