Rumor: Sony Planning Cheaper $350 PS3 Move Bundle

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Website Gamervision is citing a reliable internal Sony source, saying that Sony is planning to offer two PS3 Move Bundles, one of which will be about $50 cheaper than the other. One will cost a steep $399 while the other, with smaller hard drive, will allegedly cost $349.

According to Gamervision’s source – the $399 model will include a PS3 Slim (with 320GB HDD), PlayStation Eye camera (needed for Move), PlayStation Move controller (but no nunchuck), a regular PS3 controller (which subs for the nunchuck) as well as the pack-in action sport game.

For the cheaper $349 bundle, Sony will be cutting corners by including a 120GB hard drive, rather than the beefy 320GB one. Although we don’t have any internal Sony sources, these sound accurate to us.

Some websites are now speculating that because the rumored 120GB PS3 would be $50 cheaper, that could mean that all base 120GB PS3 bundles (Move or not) are in for a $50 pricecut – which would be pretty epic for Sony as they’d be at $250 and cheaper than the Xbox 360 for the first time in this console generation (not counting the cheap Arcade Xbox 360).

Call me whatever you want in the comments, but I can’t stress enough that all of these Move bundles don’t include the “Move nunchuck” or as it’s officially being called, the navigation controller. Sony is expecting you to use the left side of the regular PS3 controller in place, and I think a lot of gamers will find that undesirable.