I don't know. Maybe...
Right now though it seems like Sony is doing everything they can to sacrifice long term sales to boost short term sales.
I think they are panicing too much. The new USA adds seem more like "Energize your base" adds instead of "Get people who want a Wii or 360 to change their mind and get PS3" adds.
The cut down to the 40 gig only seems like a move to just sell the 60's at the cost of PR if they bring another higher model with BC to europe. (Since they said they had no plans to.) Or if they just don't and keep the 40 gig there only they are sacrificing console sales to boost software sales... which seems... weird. I mean it's good when your the market leader, but when your as far behind as sony is that's just a losing duck and cover strategy.
Maybe there plan is to just scarifice the longterm sales to get a giant boost of momentum and hope the momentum causes them to make back their long term sales.
