Sony to discontinue 60GB PlayStation 3 in Europe

[johnlucas]

Words Of Wisdom said:

johnlucas said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

Sony is doing this so that people will suddenly start buying the 80Gb models since the 40Gb won't have BC.

Once they get their sales increase, they may roll out a new model that does full everything.

But shouldn't they have done that from the beginning, W.O.W.?

John Lucas

It's hard to say. Maybe that's an approach they were trying to take with the 20Gb. Did it work there? It's becoming harder and harder to rationalize some of the decisions being made on Sony's part. This one looks straight forward, but looks can be deceiving.

It's confusing the hell out of me, I know that. They're scrambling, man. They're trying to make something happen. Sony INTRODUCED integrated built-in backwards compatibility to the business with the Playstation 2 in 2000. This is why the Game Boy Advance of 2001 plays old Game Boy and Game Boy Color games. This is why DS of 2004/2005 plays old Game Boy Advance games. This is why Wii of 2006 plays old Gamecube games.

Sony made built-in backwards compatibility an industry standard, a great one I might add. To see them in this kind of confusion is troubling. Because all these different units will find themselves in other regions eventually. The internet made the world more connected. You can't do this kind of thing. They're cannibalizing their own sales and thinking that hard drive size configurations are the key to boosting sales when it is really lack of popularly compelling game selections and a ridiculous price that keeps people away.

By doubling from PS2's $300 US to $600 to the PS3 they stopped most of the transfer of old audience to the new machine. Many people are sticking with their PS2's instead or are picking one of the competition's 7th gen offerings 360 or Wii in lieu of that development. PS2 is cannibalizing PS3 and all these changes only make it worse. It was a bad setup from Get-Go and really there's nothing they can really do to reverse this. I'd say it's best to stick with their guns and stay with original setup they had at launch and just try to get the games in. But that's impossible, isn't it, when hardware bases won't allow for sizable enough software bases. Dang.

They're screwed. It's just that simple. But doing all this mess will only screw them quicker. I'd try to slow the pace if I was them. Bundles might be their only option at this point. Not all these spec changes.

John Lucas