BC is a perfect way for Sony to communicate with the 100 million PS 2 users that their next home is the PS3. When it lost it, it became no different than Xbox 360 to the PS 2 users. Think about Hd dvd or Blue ray units. They all have BC to regular dvd to make the transition easier and even upscales them.  BC was Sony's strongest competive advantage over Xbox 360 and they forsake it. Its just a marketing ploy they couldve used even if no one uses it.

Get the 80gb :D Problem solved.

 Double posting... the site is somewhat slow.

Droping it was a good move. No one is going to care about about old PS2 games. This is just something for people to bitch about.

Do we really need another thread about this?

As always Leo-J misses the point ...

I agree with the original poster. In order for Sony to tap into the Playstation Brand they needed to release a system which was an affordable alternative to someone who was looking for a PS2, and offer backwards compatibility with the PS2.

That's why they have two different systems on sale.

I couldn't care less about BC who cares if I have too keep my PS2 to play older games, what do I care. I wouldn't throw it out anyways so for me BC is useless, although if giving the choice to have it, I would obviously take it.

well they had to have a cheaper model for christmas, and that ment either losing billions with another price cut, or another model with less features, unfortunetly it lost BC, in the short term it may hurt sales but by early to mid 08 nobody is going to care.

Nobody cares about ps2 games... they care about new games. Why do you think they would buy a ps3?

Some people care and others don't. Having both on sales would be the best plan.