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Kytiara on 12 July 2007
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jjseth said:
shams said:

Missing something else...

AFAIK, the 60Gig PS3 is effectively in clearance. Sony will no longer produce the units - once they are sold out, its over (replaced by the 80Gig PS3).

So the $499US price point is temporary (once sold out, only 80Gig models will be available - for $599).

Hopefully once they sell out, they will release the 80Gig model for $499 permanently. I don't think the public will be impressed to find that the price effectively goes up $100 in a couple of months.

 


And you have proof of this how?  Are you Jack Tretton? Do you work for SCEA?  Oh wait, you aren't him, and you don't work for him, so this is just more fanboyism negativity thrown at the PS3.  I don't see sony going off and stopping production on the 60gb version and have heard nothing that would suggest what you write as fact. 

Apparently you have a huge hatred for Sony and are just doing your best to toss more negativity.  Are you one of those people who truly want to see Sony drop out of making consoles? If you are, you are thinking the wrong way, the more platforms available the better it is for ALL gamers. 


So explain why Sony would continue to make the more expensive to produce 60 GB ps3's when they can just make the 80 GB version without the EE, saving themselves money.  Can you give me one good reason why they would do that?  From all accounts, the 80 GB version trades expensive to produce hardware bits for extremely cheap 20 GB of hard drive space (throwing in a game as well, that has little to no production cost overall).

It's only logical for Sony to stop producing the 60 GB model, hell I'd be surprised if they hadn't stopped making them months ago when the 80 GB version was first released in Korea or whichever country that was.  I fully expect that Sony will sell the 60 GB model until it sells out of the current stock and then discontinue it.  At that point, they may reduce the price of the 80 GB version (maybe releasing a 120 GB version or something), but thats a different question.