So I got tired of wating for you guys to tell me how it is
and I have decided to go out and ask my friendly neighbouhood SonyStyle sales associate about this issue.
I asked a guy to tell me "friggin' NOW" whats is going on... He was cool and he did not send me far and wide, he said they have heard about the upcoming release, he showed me internal email that was mentioning the fact that service manuals were "discovered" online and he did and did not confirm the price of USD 199 and USD 299 per unit, what he did not know is the date of the release and the date of shipment. But they are aware of the fact it is coming sometimes soon.
I also mentioned that no Sony release is made right now, to which he replied in fashion that made me, almost, think that there will not be official prerelease campaing for those. He kind of shrugged off this press release nonsense.
PS How did people do this before when they needed to find stuff out??? Did they really have to go out and get news themselves, (I cannot imagine my life without google and wiki), actually???
PSI and where is the spell checker???