Vietnam welcomes PlayStation

Sony’s Asian aspirations have been given a fresh boost with news that SCE Asia has officially launched the PS3, PS2 and PSP in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Vietnam becomes the eighth country in the region to get an official hardware launch.

Official SKUs now on sale include the 120GB PS3 Slim, the PSP-3006 (a Slim & Lite model-3000 variant) in both Piano Black and Pearl White and a region-free charcoal black PS2 Slim.

The PS3 will be priced at VND 9,990,000 (330), the PS2 at VND 4,490,000 (150) and the PSP at VND 5,990,000 (200). All prices include regional tax.

The other SCE Asia territories (aside from Japan) are Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Korea.