Do you ever sleep soriku, or is digging up this sort of thing your form of rest?

It also sold horribly in the UK.

Less than average sales for a new SKU is not good. Period.

@soriku

When did you last post good sony news?

Did they forget about Betamax? That didn't turn out well for Sony either. Looks like Blu-Ray is going to do better though, I gotta give them that. I think this 40 gig is just another attempt for Sony to get Blu-Ray further advancement, their company is really hoping it catches on.

I'm not entirely sure what the pricing on HD DVD players is at right now, but I know that $400 is a pretty decent price. And hey, if it gets these people to buy a couple PS3 games, it just works out that much better for Sony. At the worst, they sell some Blu-Ray players. At best, they get some more gamers on their side.

She looks like a man >_>

So its a bad thing the customer gets the play PS3 games for $100 less then before, brilliant.

First off, she DOES look like she's high.

Second, the bitching and moaning about no backwards compatibility is so pointless. If Nintendo released a $150 Wii with no Gamecube backwards compatibility, would people still be complaining like this? I don't think so.

ignoring the fact that getting rid of backwards compatibility on the wii would have no financial benefits, people would be complaining if Wii lost BC.  Since when do new SKUs lose features?  People would be quite angry if a new Wii SKU came out with no BC, i can tell you that for sure. 

 Yes, but what if it was $150? Seriously, that would be an amazing price for the Wii! I flew to Alaska to get my Wii (but thank god they have no sales tax there).

 If you have lots of PS2 games then keep your PS2. I have 40+ PS2 games, a 60Gb PS3 with full BC and never even tried a sinlge PS2 game on my PS3.

Anyway if you want BC buy the 80Gb PS3, $500 for PS3 with 1 game is pretty good price. It is a better value than the 360 if you want HD movies and WiFi, both of these were very important to me. Also the 360 failure rate plus the massive power supply brick were a deal breaker to me.