Correct me if I am wrong, I but did a little research and the EE and GS chips were combined onto one piece of silicon when the PS2 slim was launched. This is a single chip... The 80 gig does not have the EE+GS chip in it and therefore is relying 100% on software to maintain backward compatibility. If they remove one, they effectively remove the other. Further, my understanding was that the PS2 hardware inclusion was more or last a last minute decision because backward compatibility was not ready at launch so they had too and planned to later get rid of it anyway.
I'll see if I can find the article...
If this is true, then not having backward compatibility at all on the 40 gig wouldn't be a hardware limitation -- it would simply be a software lock-out to encourage people to buy the more expensive unit. That, in my opinion, would be one of the dumbest moves Sony will have made in the sales/marketing of the PS3 to date.
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