@libellule,
The 20GB model was not going to sell well in the first 2 or 3 months. Early adopters have the cash and are interested so they go for the full package. The 20GB model would sell just fine right now, and I guarantee there are people who would flock in droves to purchase it at the $399 price point.
The 20GB being phased out was either just another Sony blunder or deliberate. I am not sure which but it was a mistake.
Nothing anyone has said or will say is going to change the FACT that this is a clearance sale...and a clearance sale is just a temporary price cut. This is just one big game of semantics and it ultimately does not matter. Because even if they lower the 80GB model to $499 this still was not a full fledged price cut.
And what makes me laugh is that some of you guys so desperately want it to be what it isn't that you are in here screaming till your face is blue about a word game. This boils down to two sides who want to use different terminology for the SAME THING. The funny part is that no matter what you call it, it is what it is.
You folks remember to turn the lights out when your done....








