| Aj_habfan said: Does Sony even realize why the 80GB MGS4 bundle was in such high demand? Although I do like the idea of there now being only 1 SKU, we still have about 5 in the graveyard to haunt people. Lesson learned hopefully. |
They know that at a big enough part of their customers wants bc, but i think they have stopped prduction for the mainboards with the ps2 emotion engine some time ago cause these mainboards were more expensive. i don't think that the actual chip is so much money, but if it also allowed them to remove one layer from the mainboard design that would cut production costs additionally.
That would explain why they only had so low shippments of the 80gb mgs bundles in us and no bc bundles in other contries, since they were just using the last mainboards they had on stock for use with these chips.
i personally think that they are trying to bring back bc in a bit, but i think they will look at other options like completly software based emulation or integrating the emotion engine into another chip. Pure software emulation would be the best for them cause it would allow them to sell ps2 games on psn to all current ps3 owners which would increase software library on psn fast with near to no additional costs (they just would have to test all games if they run good with software emulation before they put them up for sales there, and maybe adjust emulation if needed).
