If you have any problems finding a 60GB bundle you should travel to Sweden. They are piled up in just about every game/electronics store here.

 This is about the responce I expect for most folks who already own a PS2 and probably many who don't and were hoping to supplement their early library with bargain priced AAA PS2 games.

The 60Gb bundle is much better value for your money compared to the 40Gb unit. For £50 more you get 2 games and a bigger hard drive. Thats what people see.

Although I have started to see 40Gb deals...£299 for a free game and 2 blu-rays...which is pretty good.

Also, Amazon are doing the 40Gb for £279.99.

Once the 60Gb disappears, I reckon we will see more deals for the 40Gb model. £299 for your choice of one game and one blu-ray as standard would be pretty good IMHO. And maybe £329 for 3 games and 2 blu-rays.

I dont see the point in the 40GB model. I find the fact that there are sooo many different models being released all the time quite confusing and stupid, and im sure im not the only one who believes this. Sony shouldnt have released the 40gb model at all, it should have just stuck with the 60gb, dropped the price and left it be. They didnt however, and they saw a sales spike that quickly went down, and now many people dont want the 40gb one because it (a) is inferior to the previous PS3 and (b) doesnt have BC. Im also pretty sure that many people are w8ing for an 80gb PS3 model to be released.

Ah, now we're talking real and meaningful numbers!

Regarding that adjustment, I'm not exactly sure how it happened, but you're probably wrong in saying that the adjustment was just for a single quarter. My impression is that he fixed the quarter's numbers (I don't know the amount because I don't have the old numbers for reference), and then he re-ran his estimations for later weeks with new parameters to correct the previous mis-estimations. So I think the adjustment is not as bad as you're saying.

Obviously, Others is the hardest market to track. But it is true that regarding the PS3 at least, there hasn't been a big need for corrections. I remember noticing many news articles being posted in this forum with numbers from SCEE for certain specific countries (as in a local rep reporting current shipped numbers to some news outlet), and the numbers almost always made sense in relation to vgchartz's sold-to-customers numbers. There were also reports from tracking companies, and again, they did make sense.

In any case, the subject of this topic is trends, with only partial support from vgchartz's numbers. Those trends are worrying for SCEE's strategy with the PS3, and no tracking mistakes will change that. We're potentially looking at a Christmas in which the only PS3 version in the market is the gimped one! If that happens, it's either because they wanted it to happen, or because they misread the market's intentions.

They released it because the PS2 was too strong and was canibalizing their sales.  People were using their PS3 to play upscaled PS2 games insteead of PS3 games.  Combine that with a low userbase and you get sales that don't return on the investments of the games and angry software developers.  So it makes sense in their minds to sell 40 gigs with no BC only so the people who buy them HAVE to buy PS3 games and not PS2 games at 1/3rd the price or less.

Then once they start getting some meaningful total software sold early on and gain back a lot of the confidence lost in them they can re-release versions with backwords compatability. (Hopefully, or i'll just buy a 20 gig used and replace the harddrive.)

As for less memoery.  I'd assume thats so it's also cheaper for the person who just wants it for 70% Blu-Ray. (Since it's as cheap as you'll get for Blu-ray.) and people who won't go online much with it or download too many demos.  40 Gigs should be plenty if you manage it right.  The tech savy can always drop in a higher HD.