| Munkeh111 said: I think Sony should release a model for an extra £50 with the RSX built in (which would only cost them a little extra) and some extra HDD space |
how much extra is the question. the chip price is not the problem, I don't think sony just removed the chip from the ps3 just for the cost of the chip (which is most likely below 10$). i think there were other problems with it like the pcb needed for adding the ps2 chipbeeing much more costly with it, or another thing might be that they were running out of the ps2 chips (ps2 slim models of ps2 all use one chip that integrates both EE and GS, and some of the newest even have the system ram integrated with the processors into one ASIC, which makes it a bit strange that they were using graphic chips only in the 60gb versions, maybe using up the rests of the old stock?)
anyway this would only make sense if they could use the same pcb for the models with bc and for the ones without to avoid extra costs of 2 completly different production lines.
