News: Sony Europe's VP makes gamer's wallets everywhere wince.
Gamasutra has posted a report about comments that George Fornay, President of SCE France and VP of SCE Europe, has made about the price of the PS3.
In an interview aired on French radio station Europe 1 Fornay said that the PS3 would be priced "around А500, in the range of А499 to 599". This roughly translates to a range of $612 to 734.
While this is by no means an official proclamation from Sony, it should carry some weight. It should also be noted that many systems have ignored the conversion rate in their pricing and sported identical numerical prices in Europe and America. For example, the Xbox 360 launched at $399 in America and А399 in Europe. So we in America might be looking at a price of only $500-600.
Hopefully we'll learn more at E3.
source: Gamasutra