ive been finding out that a lot of people DONT KNOW that the 40gig has no bc!!! they're pretty pissed after they find out!!

I would want the original ps3..

Not the dumbed down, cost cutting versions.

Thats just me tho. :)

to everyone that says something about get rid of the motorstorm bundle to lower costs, you do know it cost virtually nothing to bundle a game. The whole point of it is to raise perceived value of the system without acually raising the cost to the manufacturer. I would guess is cost Sony about 50 cents to bundle motorstorm but consumers think that it is worth $60.

Final-Fan said: Yeah, can the 80GB ... then bring back the 60GB! Full circle, Sony alternates models every four months for the rest of the generation. It makes as much sense as whatever they're really trying to do.

 Like the Mc Ribb!

EHSTEVE said: madskillz said: Sony is just proving one thing - they don't have a clue. They axed the 20gb within a few months after launch - the 60gb shortly thereafter, and now the 80gb, leaving folks with just one choice. Keeping the 80gb around is really the only choice for PS2 gamers who haven't made the jump and would love to keep their collection. Now, Sony is saying 'Either buy the PS3 now and have one that will play your PS2 games or miss out altogether.' Sony needs to find the jackass who keeps pressing the panic button and bury him. Each move like makes the last-gen wins look like flukes ...   God forbid those ps2 owners be forced to play their ps2 games on their... PS2!! It's a scary thought.

Cause... no one in the world has limited space in which to put videogame consoles.  No one at all.  In fact everyone has multiple TVs with which to hook up all there videogame systems with near equal quality.

Actually few people do.  I'm one of em... and even I wouldn't have room for an extra console at this point.  I have to rotate between my Atari, N64, Balley Astrocade and SNES as it is.

well we have to be frank, what Sony is doing this gen is simple consumer shafting. They created a situation, where some part of the PS3 community is better than than the rest due to better HW. And i'm not exagerrating. Full BC and a lot of other extras for some and the rest can go bark up a tree. One of the stupidest business models yet if you ask me. This IS going to put off a lot of people in the long run.

Changing hardware over time (and in the process shafting some people, in a sense) is nothing new for the electronics industry. What's so irritating about the current situation with Sony is that they're doing it backwards: they're dropping functionality as they go along instead of adding it. In the past, we've been able to count on hardware being a little buggy, poorly featured, and overpriced at the start compared to later revisions, but as an early adopter you accepted that as the cost of getting it first. Now, if you want a particular feature you're expected to rush out and get it today, because it could be gone tomorrow. I don't think this strategy is doing anyone any favors.

Borkachev said: well we have to be frank, what Sony is doing this gen is simple consumer shafting. They created a situation, where some part of the PS3 community is better than than the rest due to better HW. And i'm not exagerrating. Full BC and a lot of other extras for some and the rest can go bark up a tree. One of the stupidest business models yet if you ask me. This IS going to put off a lot of people in the long run. Changing hardware over time (and in the process shafting some people, in a sense) is nothing new for the electronics industry. What's so irritating about the current situation with Sony is that they're doing it backwards: they're dropping functionality as they go along instead of adding it. In the past, we've been able to count on hardware being a little buggy, poorly featured, and overpriced at the start compared to later revisions, but as an early adopter you accepted that as the cost of getting it first. Now, if you want a particular feature you're expected to rush out and get it today, because it could be gone tomorrow. I don't think this strategy is doing anyone any favors.

how did you come to that conclusion? since the release of ps3, the features they have added to the ps3 have totally outstripped the features removed.

 

what features have they added?
are those features in the 40gb, potentially the only model left?

I'm not aware of any features they've added, unless you're talking about software features. Those are available to people regardless of which model they buy, and so aren't relevant here.