this is getting completely ridiculous! In a weird way, it would have made sense if the PS3 was in short supply and sony didn't want europeans to buy the PS3 so it could reallocate consoles to other markets... but from what i've read here, it's definitely not the case. Even in the sense of a future price drop, does sony think US and Japan are going to buy willingly this PS2.9 once it is released everywhere? I don't get it. can an expert speak up? Kwaab? what do you make of that? i am curious to know....