{"id":8584,"date":"2005-08-17T18:13:26","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T18:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8584"},"modified":"2005-08-17T18:13:26","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T18:13:26","slug":"p-t-barnum-sez-step-right-up-get-your-ps3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8584","title":{"rendered":"P.T. Barnum sez: Step Right Up, Get Your PS3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How goofy is this. Amazon has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B0009VXAM0\/ref=ord_cart_shr\/103-0713548-1883060?_encoding=UTF8&#038;m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&#038;v=glance\" target=\"new\">page<\/a> up already for the PlayStation 3, even though it won&#8217;t be for sale until spring of &#8217;06, if then. And there are even reader-reviews of it, thirteen at the moment. So, Amazon is selling a product that&#8217;s maybe a year away from the marketplace and &#8220;purchasers&#8221; of the vaporous product are already reviewing it. Hey, can I sell my used virtual PS3 on eBay?<\/p>\n<p> The interesting thing about this is the price: US$299. This may or may not be an honest number, and if it isn&#8217;t, it&#8217;s a clever move on Sony&#8217;s part to tweak buyer&#8217;s expectations for an affordable PS3, maybe leading them to hold off on buying an XBox 2&#8230;er&#8230;360 this holiday season. Your move, Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p> [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com\" target=\"new\">Gizmodo<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How goofy is this. Amazon has a page up already for the PlayStation 3, even though it won&#8217;t be for sale until spring of &#8217;06, if then. And there are even reader-reviews of it, thirteen at the moment. So, Amazon is selling a product that&#8217;s maybe a year away from the marketplace and &#8220;purchasers&#8221; of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8584\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;P.T. Barnum sez: Step Right Up, Get Your PS3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}