Won't be surprised if the pound drops even lower. Sony is screwed with the Yen so high.

good news but thats just for christmas right? lets hope it get better sales.

 Yeah the christmas special discount pound was only avaliable until the end of Christmas, after the the value shoots straight back up again.

there is no special discount pound, not until economic'srecovery of the UK... in many many months ahead


Bad for British people, but good for other european why buy british things

 Yeah, I know how currency works, I was just mocking another member who clearly didn't read the OP properly.

And, besides weakening currency isn't bad for everyone, having a strong currency killed out exporting industry, that's starting to benefit now.

It's Libra in Portuguese.

OT: Yes, this is great for Europeans. I recently bought a Wii for my brother for 200 € at Amazon UK.

lol. ^_^

That's not bizarre at all. The UK/GB currency is extremely old, and should actually really be called the "Sterling" (or officially "Pound Sterling") by the British themselves.

The pound is a weight unit, that is translated by 'livre' in France. Historically, 240 pennies (coins) of the Sterling currency would weighed 1 pound, hence a pound of Sterling.

The Latin countries still use the historical (and technically correct) denomination.

Now, if you want to be exact, call us 'Français', and not 'French' (not 'Fwançais' : 'Français', it's a R). Good luck. :p

Misleading title FTW

It's simple, pound is the English term for the weight measuring unit... In Spanish or Portuguese to measure weight, the same unit is called "libra", in french is "livre", in Dutch is "pond", in German is "pfund", etc.

Now, the official name of UK's currency is the "Pound sterling", although a lot of people call it "British pound" or just "pound" (even "quid"), so, non-English speaking countries all they do is changing "pound" for the equivalent in their language and take "sterling" as an anglicism, that's why in Spanish and Portuguese we say "Libra esterlina", in French is the "Livre sterling", in Dutch is "pond sterling", in German is "Pfund sterling" and so on...

On another note, don't assume this will go on forever. If the pound stays weak for a long time, some companies may raise UK prices.