ismael said: So we will have a 120bg ps3 version in Europe too, they always say the opossite they do.

This is a picture of the new SKU (if you want to call it like that) coming to Europe:

http://www.gfdata.de/archiv01-2008-gamefront/startterpackPS3.jpg

 

An 80gb spiderman 3 bundle, interesting I thought that was the 40gb.

Well in that case, then the 120gb PS3(Which I doubt would come out) would be priced at $399.99? Then what off the 30gb the possibility of it dropping down to $299.99?

My comment on this is simple, sony needs a cheaper PS3 in order to gain ground on something, they are loosing sales because of the ps3's terrible price point.

pretty sexy starter pack, with 2 games I would LOVE to own, Much better than the packed in games by Xbox, wouldn't you agree? ;)

superchunk said: yep. 120g will be soon. For the sake of the price and people who will buy it, hope it has BC. I bet it will be identical to the 80g, except for the obvious hdd. Seems pointless though. If I were sony I would drop to the 40g only, add software bc, and dual shock 3. All for the $399 price. I mean what is the 360 breakdown between the sku's? Arcade probably like 20%, 70% for the premium, and 10% for the elite? I am not sure, but that is what I would guess.

 the already have it  for the PS1

they cant do it for the PS2, the Graphics Synthesizer is supposedly impossible to emulate or at least going to take another year to code. 

zackblue said: An 80gb spiderman 3 bundle, interesting I thought that was the 40gb. Well in that case, then the 120gb PS3(Which I doubt would come out) would be priced at $399.99? Then what off the 30gb the possibility of it dropping down to $299.99? My comment on this is simple, sony needs a cheaper PS3 in order to gain ground on something, they are loosing sales because of the ps3's terrible price point.

I disagree. It's the SKUs. They can't make up their mind. Whoever is making these rash and dumb decisions on what needs to be done with the PS3 needs to be shot. I'm sorry, but when a company rehashes SO MANY different models of one system, it makes them look like total fools and assholes when it comes to marketing. They need to get their act together, and fast if they want to sell a lot. One SKU is fine, but just give it something that the consumer WANTS instead of what a company desires. It's just as bad as guy going after multiple girls because he doesn't know which one to stick with. It's PATHETIC.

^^no, it's definately the price point. Look what happend in November when they got the price down to $400. People don't care about all the previous SKUs. They go to a store and see one or two different PS3 models, they ask the sales person or the nearest teenager what the differences between the two are, and they decide which one to buy. They don't care if Sony had 350 previous SKUs out there, they see two in a store and the make a decision based on those two, not the previous 350 discontinued SKUs.

Retrasado said: ^^no, it's definately the price point. Look what happend in November when they got the price down to $400. People don't care about all the previous SKUs. They go to a store and see one or two different PS3 models, they ask the sales person or the nearest teenager what the differences between the two are, and they decide which one to buy. They don't care if Sony had 350 previous SKUs out there, they see two in a store and the make a decision based on those two, not the previous 350 discontinued SKUs.

This is true, mostly. How many PS2 SKUs were there? Probably close to, if not more than, 20. They kept revising the motherboard on the original model, probably close to 10 times, then the slimline PS2 came out, and that went through some revisions, too. It didn't matter that they kept changing it. What mattered was the price was falling.

Exactly. The only people confused by the different SKUs are those of us trying to keep a running tally of all the different ones in all the different regions... and even then it's not hard to keep track if you're paying attention. For the average customer, it's a matter of choosing between two on the shelf, whose important differences basically come down to: 1) price, and 2) backwards compatibility.

This won't be the last PS3 SKU, and it shouldn't be. It only makes sense for Sony to keep updating the harddrive size and the bundled items, because this is a rapidly changing industry.

I'd laugh if Sony released a 320GB model in the PAL counties. lol

That's it, Sony. Keep screwing over the region that supports you the most. Very nice.