FILE- This March 8, 2012 file photo shows attendees walking past the Sony PlayStation PS Vita console on display in the Sony PlayStation booth at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Sony’s PlayStation Network service for video games was unusa
FILE- This March 8, 2012 file photo shows attendees walking past the Sony PlayStation PS Vita console on display in the Sony PlayStation booth at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Sony’s PlayStation Network service for video games was unusa Paul Sakuma, file, Associated Press
Herb Scribner
By Herb Scribner
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There’s some new speculation about the cost of the PlayStation 5, which is still due to be released in the holiday 2020 season.

What’s going on:

  • A new listing for the Sony video game console on Amazon UK showed the price to hover around £599.99 ($765.32) for 2 terabytes of data, according to ComicBook.com.
  • The listing was already taken down. But people snapped screenshots of the order before it disappeared from the website.
  • HotUKDeals.com shared the listing as well. People pointed out on that website that the listing was fake and only a placeholder.
  • “It’s got the PlayStation 5 listed under Sony’s items for £599.99, and someone was even able to put in an order even though that purchase will likely get canceled,” per ComicBook.com.

A rumor from March

  • In March, a new leak from Canadian retailer Play N Trade suggested that the PlayStation 5 could cost close to $600 in Canada — so about $400 in the U.S., as I wrote about for the Deseret News.
  • The rumor came after the Play N Trade offered preorders for the system at that price.

Upcoming ...

  • Sony will host an event for the PlayStation 5 on Thursday, June 11. It will begin at 4 p.m. ET (2 p.m. MT). The company is expected to show off new games for the system, as I reported for the Deseret News.
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