The company said in a blog post that it will drop the price for existing pre-orders to the new price point. According to the blog post, “We’ve heard from thousands of gamers that if the price was $299, we’d have a home run.”
Compared with the PS Vita, from Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE), the Shield’s hardware is better and the number of games available for Android-based devices is growing. Sony’s PlayStation 4, due later this year, is currently set to cost $349 and the PS Vita handheld is priced at $249.
Like virtually every other stock today, Nvidia’s shares are down. Currently shares are trading down about 2% at $14.55, after posting a new 52-week high of $15.48 yesterday. The 52-week low is $11.15.
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