A forum posting that falsely announced the price of the new PlayStation Portable got picked up by gaming sites across the Internet yesterday, even making a front page article on the hugely popular Slashdot Games.
In his original post, the hoaxer linked to a non-existent Gamespot article; gamers saw the link but seemingly believed the story without checking the source, the story was then picked up by GCAdvanced.com which started the ball rolling.
Amir0x (who started the story), posted the message on the TorchTheBridge.com forums but later admitted the story was 100% a hoax:
ANYWAY...
As any NON idiot already knew (no offense fellas), this story is...
A 100% COMPLETE HOAX
It was...
a.) An experiment to see how QUICKLY people would jump on a story like this about Sony, despite NO evidence at all and a dead link and even a F***ING MESSAGE IN THE ORIGINAL POST THAT THE STORY WAS FAKE (albeit in small text)
and...
b.) Because I was bored, and wanted to see how many people fell for it!
More info:
PSP Price 'Hoax' Widely Circulated
PSP price likely fake
Selection of videos of PSP in action from the Tokyo Games Show
PlayStation Portable Preview Video
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