Sony officially cuts PSX price in Japan

So after retailers themselves started cutting PSX prices because it is tanking in Japan, Sony quietly cut the price on their monsterized Playstation 2 to ¥44,800 ($410 USD) for the 160GB model and ¥59,800 ($545 USD) for the 250GB one. In addition to playing PS2 games, it has TiVo-like features, photo album support, music library (using Sony's dreaded ATRAC), a Broadband Adapter, and can record shows onto its included DVD recorder. The price cut may spur sales as now the PSX is one of the lowest priced DVD-HDD recorders on the Japanese market. We woudn't mind testing one of these puppies out when (or maybe if?) it hits US shores.