Walmart and Kmart are enticing consumers to get a jump on their holiday shopping by holding a series of "Black Friday-style" sales well before the Friday after Thanksgiving. The price cuts go into effect tomorrow, Saturday, November 8th. Walmart is offering up a 15.4-inch Compaq CQ-139WM laptop with 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive for only $298. They are also selling a PlayStation 2 bundled with a $30 Walmart gift card for $129 and a PlayStation 3 bundled with a $100 gift card for $399.

Over at Kmart, they are offering up a 32-inch Sylvania LCD HDTV for $439.99 and starting on Sunday, Wii Fit will be available for just $89.99, balance board included. Get shopping!

Sony Europe has completely removed the costly PS2 certification process in their region. This move, in effect, makes the console open source worldwide. There are 131 million PS2s in the world, so this move must be exciting to some studios looking to make games on the cheap. Except to see an influx of software from Russia and India in the near future.

And another price reduction from Sony. This should teach us all to wait and not buy right away. But will we listen?

Granted, this is a rumor, but….the story is that Sony is planning a $400 40GB PS3 for the holiday season.

The story goes on to say that the price may drop soon to $500 for the 80GB version and that both will come bundled with a Blu-ray version of Spider-Man 3.

Hold onto your hats – er, wallets – the PS2 is supposed to be selling for $100! Now that’s news!

Remember the original PS2? The gaming console that has been superceded by the slim version, as well as the PS3 (well, sort of) and now costs about $50 if you look hard enough? Well, someone found a PS2 that was well worth the cost.

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While Sony is offering price reductions on its PS3 system, it continues to sell the PS2, now updated with a weight reduction, new components, and probably, less shipping charges.