Holy crap! 40GB PS3 launching Oct. 12th!?! Is this guy legite!?!

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kber81 said:

*~Onna76~* said:
How many more versions will we get?

Is it really matters for people who already bought the system? Personally I couldn't care less. It's an answer for peoples calling. The truth is most people simply don't want to pay $499 for gaming machine. $399 is much more friendly. For me the most important feature of current sku's is WiFi. Definitely it should stay as a standard. BC, card readers, extra USB ports are useful but definitely not essential.

$399 is a much more friendly price.  It is $100 cheaper than the original 20Gb PS3 released last year and discontinued earlier this year.  Wifi certainly is more essential to the PS3 than the card readers.  And 2 USB ports are more than enough TBH.  Who needs 4?  Also, they will probably release a cheap USB card reader if you need one...you can pick them up for around $10-$15 anyway.  Because the new unit uses less power and the lack of extra ports for CF, SD, MS and USB's state to me that the new PS3 will be a smaller unit.  It may not be quite a PS3Slim, but it should be smaller, which will be more attractive to the Japanese market as well.  PS2 backwards compatibility is very important though, but I'm pretty sure this can be done with software emulation alone anyway, whether the new 80Gb models still need a hardware emulation chip even after the EE has been removed, we are unsure about.  But I reckon this will be essential in the future, also when they start the downloading of classic PS2 games from the online store as well as the PS1 games.

I reckon once this unit is released, they will stick to 2 versions from next year onwards.  An entry level machine (40Gb, no card readers, 2 usb's) and the premium machine (80gb+, card readers, 4 usb's, HDMI cables and packaged games).

But in the end, you cannot complain about a $399 PS3 with 40Gb drive a free Spiderman 3 on Blu-Ray...a great deal.