Why does PS3 suck in Japan?

[Ail]

FishyJoe said:

Ail said:

FishyJoe said:
Wait, they removed BC to lower the price. Japan now has the lowest PS3 prices at close to $310 street price. Now Sony is supposed to put BC back in after it's shut down that production line? It not like they can just flip a switch, they would have to reorder all the parts and retool the production line again. That stuff costs money.

Putting software emulation BC would not require them to change any of their production line ( and wound't actually cost them anything because the software has been developped anyway...)

Pure speculation. If it was so easy or cheap to do software emulation, why haven't they announced it? I'm not going to reargue that thread anyways, since thre are already a million pages on it.

The fact is that emulation doesn't exist now and it has not been announced in any way, shape or fashion by Sony.

What's in the 80Gb then ? I thought it didn't have the emotion engine...

Anyway they are still factories producing the 80Gb ( MGS4 bundle is 80Gb, tell me if I am wrong) so it woudn't be that hard for them to start selling the 80Gb model in Japan...