It"s no surprise that after the price drop of Microsoft"s Xbox. That Sony would follow up with its own price drop of the PS2 to $149. Since its price drop sales increased and in even doubled in North America.
SCEA announces that PlayStation 2 sales have more than doubled since the price of the console was cut to $149 last month.
Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) today announced that sales of the PlayStation 2 have more than doubled in North America since the price of the console was cut from $179 to $149 last month. Immediately following the pre-E3 price drop announcement SCEA"s major retail partners saw week-over-week PS2 sales increase by 216 percent. Sales for the three full weeks since the price drop were up 141 percent on the three weeks prior to the announcement, and up 26 percent compared to the same three-week period in 2003.