Just in time for Christmas!
Today, Sony announced a permanent price cut for the PlayStation 4 in the United States and Canada. The system will be available for $349 USD in the US and $429 CAD in Canada, and will apply to all the upcoming holiday bundles. Don’t go rush out and buy a PS4 today, though — the change takes place tomorrow to go with the launch of theNathan Drake Collectionbundle.
Earlier in the week,Target leakedthe price drop on its website, advertising theUnchartedbundle for the new, lower price. TheUnchartedbundle isn’t the only bundle affected by the change; theStar Wars Battlefrontbundle is down to $349 as well, theDisney Infinity 3.0bundle is now at $399, and theBlack Ops IIIandStar Wars Limited Edition(the Darth Vader one with the digitalStar Warsgames) bundles have both been dropped to $429.
This change seems random — theUncharted, Battlefront,andDisney Infinitybundles have all been discounted by $50, but theCall of DutyandDarth Vader-Lookin’PS4s are down a mere $20. It’s not even that they’re special consoles or that a third party has touched them; theInfinitybundle has the same Vader-themed PS4 and downloadable gamesandit comes with approximately $90’s (game, playset, Boba Fett) worth of goodies.
This news comes almost a month after the PS4 got itsprice slashed in Japanfrom 39,980 yen (331 USD) to 34,980 yen ($292). That’s right — it’s still a little cheaper to import a Japanese PS4. Isn’t life funny?
