I don't think you need not much advertisment. Producing the Box should be that expensive (Basicly you just need a diffrent carton, the game should fit somewhere in the box. And for third party game. Well yes it is, but look this way: Lets say Rockstar gets 30 $ a game for that +probably more games sold. I would say, its a now brainer. I mean, how much do get Rockstar for the game? I would say 35 $ tops (If you substract Licencing to sony, fee for the market, deploying costs.....).

 Also you have to think that way: How much copys of GTA-SA sold on PS2? About 13 Millions Right? How much PS2 are there? About 120 Millions. Thats an Attachrate about 10%? If you calculate XBox360 and PS3 might have sold how much til X-Mas? 20 Million Consoles? If they get the Attach Rate up as 10% after Christmas (The games ships oktober so only 2 Month) they sell "only" 2 Million games. I think something like that will help them sell much much more copys of the game this X-Mas.

For the LAST LAST time, the 20 gig sold great. They just didn't make enough of them for people to BUY THEM!!!!

Not according to Sony:

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/11/r-i-p-playstation-3-20gb-is-officially-no-more/

When I see someone saying a sentence starting with "For the LAST LAST time", I expect them to have thoroughly checked what they're about to say. Apparently, it isn't always the case. Can we stop spreading this myth now?

Correct me if I am wrong but are we supposed to pay an extra $100 for +20 gigs of HD and Motorstorm? WTH? I fail to understand the logic behind this, cos it makes little sense. Motorstorm is $60 worth at best and so, is 20 gigs alone $40 worth??? Oh come on! If I want Motorstorm, I'll either buy it 2nd hand from someone else or just go buy it for $60 after the $499 model, which still costs a lot less! Of course I'd do this all if I was in America now, lol.

OK, but according to Sony, the Wii is too expensive, the PS3 is too cheap, they aren't planning a price cut, they're 'earning' third-party developers, the PS3 will sell 5 million units without any games, and I should get a second job.

But it's LIMITED EDITION!  It's cool, man, it's the thing to have.  All the cool kids have 80 GB hard drives on their PS3s... I guess you're just not cool enough.

/sarcasm off

OK, so let's change the question to: is there anyone according to whom the 20 GB was selling well? theshoe23 didn't even provide any references.

If there are no references to the contrary, we should take Sony's word for it. Or do you have a better idea? If Sony was lying, I'm sure they have been (or will be) caught in their lie, so bring on those links/facts.

Much like the introduction of the XBox 360 Elite model you will see (much) higher sales for the PS3 initially and they may even approach Wii sales numbers for a Week or two but it is likely they will return to a similar level to their current sales. If Sony is lucky sales of the PS3 will stop declining ...

It will boost sales, but I don't think as much as the Elite, i mean if you compare the two, the 360 Elite is a better deal, it has 40 more gb than the PS3 80gb, and costs 120 dollars less. Even if you get a $60 dollar 360 game to match Motorstorm its still less than the PS3 80gb. So it'll probably end the war between the PS3 and GBA, but still won't quite reach the Wii and DS in sales.