New 40 GB PS3 Info (be prepared for moans and groans, it'll be painful)

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davygee said:

NJ5 said:

I don't know about America, but most people where I live would prefer to sell their PS2 and use the money to buy a shiny PS3 which can play their PS2 games. There are also plenty of stores which offer exchange programmes, which would reduce the price of the higher-priced pack. Furthermore, with the better pack you get more disk space, and depending on Sony's announcement, you may get an additional controller and/or games.

Having 2 consoles in your living room can be a pain, and most people would prefer not to bother with the cable mess.

 

How much can you seriously get for a 2nd hand...potentially 7 year old machine.....$30, $40....the price of a PS3 game!

 It's actually a little more than that, but that's not the only factor.  Why do I now have to have 2 machines when one originally did the job.  When I got a Wii, I was specifically thrilled that I could still play some of my fav. gamecube games on it and get rid of the cube.  I still have about 10 cube games but no more cube...  I also have played a bunch of backward compatible xbox original games (and still own a few) on my 360.  There are still at least a dozen titles from the original XBOX that I want to play so BC is important to me.

To each his own, but again, I think sony is making a major mistake if they do, in fact, completely remove BC on the new 40 gig PS3.

In addition to that one small issue, there is a disturbing trend going on that orignally Sony hammerd Microsoft for:  Multiple SKUs...

60 gig -- 100 percent backward compatible, all additional features

80 gig -- less backward compatibility, all aditional features, game pack-in

20 gig -- no card reader, full backward compatibility, no wifi

40 gig -- no card reader, zero backward compatibility, less ports, includes wifi

None of these really seem like a well thought out console feature list other than the original 60 gig unit...