Uncharted The Nathan Drake Bundle PS4 Price Drop

Sony announced this week that it will be dropping the price of the PlayStation 4 in Japan and much of Asia next month, and it looks like the strategy will extend to the UK as well. While the platform holder's being a little more subtle about things on these shores, Eurogamer.net received confirmation from SCEE that two Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection bundles will hit these shores on 9th October – and the 500GB option will retail for £299.99.

This is important because the RRP of the console has remained at £349.99 since launch, save for the odd weekend promotion here and there. It's worth noting that the 1TB version of the abovementioned bundle will sell for the slightly more expensive £329.99, but this is, once again, lower than the machine's original mark-up price. Both bundles will utilise the lighter, less power hungry CUH-1200 hardware model, which has lowered manufacturing costs.

The reason that we suspect Sony's not going overboard about this is because you can already buy a PS4 in the UK for less than £299.99 if you shop around, which doesn't make this particularly important news. But because of the uniquely competitive nature of the UK high street, you're likely to see retailers go much lower than ever before if this does represent an RRP reduction across the product's entire line. Of course, we'll still need to see if the rest of Europe and North America follow suit. It's looking likely now, isn't it?

[source eurogamer.net]