Which mattered/matters most to Sony???

[bobobologna]

That's great that you think that. Personally, I'm a little glad that they did this.

I spent $500 on my XBox360 with a 20 GB HDD and a wifi adapter. I could play DVDs on it but the DVD drive was about a million dB too loud. I also had to check to make sure any original XBox games I bought were compatible before buying them.

I paid $500 for my PS3 with a 60 GB HDD, built in wifi, built in card adapters, and it plays Blurays. It also does a great job upscaling DVDs. It's also pretty quiet for movies. It also plays every PS2 game I've bought flawlessly. No need to check for compatibility. And Bluray movies are fabulous. Ratatouille made me a believer in Bluray (that, and the terrible job WB did with The Departed's DVD transfer).

So you tell me. Is Sony trying to screw me over? Obviously things have changed a little now (XBox360 price drops, Sony taking out backwards compatibility), but I think I got an awesome deal.