Retraction issued on PlayStation 3 price / date

Sorry to get your hopes up, PlayStation peeps, just to dash them like so, but that article a couple days ago where
CNN Money quoted Stringer tagging a price and relative release date to the PS3? Well, they retracted the statements and their attribution to Stringer — where did the quote come from, you ask? GI attributes it to an "anonymous source within Sony," which doesn't lend the, um, exact same kind of credence as Sir Howard. so until further notice, the
PlayStation 3 still has no known expected price or price range, as well as no estimated window for release for the US version of the console after the Japanese system launches next Spring. Still, it was nice while it lasted.

[Thanks, Eliot, via
GamesIndustry.biz]