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Sony has confirmed to videogaming247 today that the newly announced 160Gb PS3 and the PSP 3000 will cost £339.99 and £149.99 repectively.

The 160Gb PS3 will release on October 31 whilst PSP 3000 will launch on the 15th of the same month.

By Mike Bowden

Sony Australia has said that “it will not be introducing the limited edition 160GB PS3 announced by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe at the 2008 Games Convention Developers Conference (GCDC) held in Leipzig, Germany.”

Shame. There is good news however, as both the wireless keypad and Play TV have both been confirmed for the region.

So there you go.

By Mike Bowden

Sony has announced that it’s flagship, web 2.0 platformer thingy, LittleBigPlanet will be release on October 29. Which incidentally is just two days before the release of the 160Gb PlayStation 3.

By Mike Bowden

Sony has just announced a new 160Gb PlayStation 3 for PAL territories in the peak season.

The new machine will be released on October 31 and include 70 euros’ worth of PSN DLC.

Get all the details from the Sony press conference from our live blog.

It’ll make the tea as well. According to this, a “particularly well-informed insider” reckons Sony’s planning a slimline PS3 for launch this autumn, which could be the home of the now much-rumoured 160Gb hard drive SKU. The report uses the logic that both PS2 and PSP were slimmed down to support itself.

This new rumour appears to be an extension of the entire debacle surrounding the supposed cancellation of the US 80Gb PS3 SKU and its replacement with a bundle with a bigger hard drive and DualShock 3.

This could go on forever. And probably will.

SCEE has no plans to release a rumoured 120-160Gb PS3 SKU, GI’s reporting, reponding to persistent rumours that the (maybe) ditched 80Gb US SKU is to be replaced by a package with a bigger hard drive.

“We do not currently have any plans to release a 120GB PlayStation 3 in the UK,” said a SCEE spokesperson.

No official comment has yet been released by SCEA on the situation, so whether or not the 80Gb SKU is even to be discontinued is still unclarified.

SCEE has dismissed talk of a 120-160Gb PS3 as “rumour and speculation” following this morning’s… rumour and speculation. CVG gets brownie points for working out how to operate buttons on a telephone. The story started in reaction to last week’s assumptions that Sony’s dumping the 80Gb SKU in America.