A quote from late July...
"My prediction is that you're going to see the creation of a new, low-end SKU this holiday. It'll likely remove integrated WiFi, memory card reader, and most controversially, all backward compatibility. (Remember, there's still some back-compat hardware in even the new "software only" back compat SKUs; removing the remaining CPU is a significant cost savings.) You'll see a new WiFi dongle made available. And finally, this low-end SKU will likely come with a smaller 40 GB hard drive. The low-end price will be set at $399, with the higher-end 80 GB SKU dropping to $499."
I remembered that back in late July this quote was made... Back up for the quote can be found here if you need it...
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/print?board.id=ps3&message.id=1761271&format=one
What (if any) features do you think Sony would exclude if they ship a 40 Gb SKU? The prediction seems to be accurate so far in that the rumour is that it is a 40 Gb SKU and the price drop of the 80 Gb SKU... But, there has been no mention of other stuff being removed in the lower SKU.
