Sony Says NGP’s Price Is Going To Be “Affordable” And Won’t Be Like $599

SCEE boss Andy House has told EuroGamer that the price for their newly revealed PSP2, or NGP, will be “affordable”.

“I can’t put a ballpark on it in terms of figures, but what I would say is that we will shoot for an affordable price that’s appropriate for the handheld gaming space,” he told the site in Tokyo at the Playstation meeting.

While House was unable to confirm the price of NGP, SCE WWS boss Shuhei Yoshida said to Game Informer in a follow-up comment to House’s remark that it’s not going to be like $599 for the least.

When asked by Game Informer, he assured that the price won’t be $599, “It’s not going to be $599”

He mentioned that the pricing has been a major concern for Sony since they started working on the project when it began in 2008, “From the very beginning of the project — since 2008 — pricing was one of the considerations that we had. Hopefully when we announce the price, people will see the proper value.”