Sony cuts Japanese retail price for PlayStation Vita game console

TOKYO, Feb. 18 (Kyodo) — Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. said Monday it will lower the Japanese retail price of its PlayStation Vita game console from Feb. 28.

The prices of the 3G/Wi-Fi model and Wi-Fi model, which are currently available at 29,980 yen and 24,980 yen, respectively, will be both reduced to 19,980 yen, Sony Corp.'s gaming unit said.

A company official declined to comment on the possibility of lowering the retail price for overseas markets.

Launched in December 2011, PlayStation Vita sold estimated 674,365 units in 2012 in the Japanese market, according to game magazine publisher Enterbrain Inc. Its sales lag behind Nintendo Co.'s 3DS portable game console, which sold an estimated 5.63 million units last year.

Earlier this month, Sony cutAsia-Pacific

Train crash kills 21 in central India (Agencies)

Updated: 2010-09-21 07:03

Security personnel conduct rescue operations at the site of a train accident near Badarwas station, about 260 km (160 miles) north of Bhopal in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh September 20, 2010. [Agencies]

NEW DELHI - A freight train on the wrong track slammed into a stationary passenger locomotive at a railway station amid heavy rain early Monday in central India, killing at least 21 people and injuring 53, officials said.

The death toll could rise as the debris of two damaged coaches were being cleared, rail official R.S. Yadav said.

The crash happened at the Bhaderwah rail station, 235 miles (375 kilometers) south of the Indian capital, New Delhi.

The freight train was on a wrong track and hit the