It has been the natural evolution for gaming consoles to get better with each year, but is it true with the ps3? I've heard time and time again that ps3 owners on this site prefer the 60gb version of the system, due to the BC. With the later versions of the ps3, they got rid of the BC and swapped parts to make the system cheaper to make; I however do not know whether this made the system better or worse.

Let's pretend for a minute that you do not care about BC...which version of the system would you get? 60gb, 80gb, etc?

The cheaper version, instantly. There is no difference besides BC. Who really fills up 60gbs on a videogame console?

Also, dropping BC made the console worse, worse, worse.

but PS3 now(compared to 60 GB) run much quieter,cooler,better wifi and imporved blue tooth connections with a better blu ray lens.So in a sense PS3 hardware has improved in the main features but the dropped some of the parts due to different reasons.

Which reason was it that they dropped Backwards Compatibility?

Was it the one where everyone was playing PS2 games and having a good old time?

I'll never understand why...Sony, Jesus.

You can still find the 60gb versions on ebay and amazon for 400ish so I wouldn't be saving all that much from the 80gb console.

no i think they didn't want PS3 to hinder the sales of PS2 since PS2 returns a good profit while PS3 doesn't.

if BC isn't your thing then definitly new 80GB

i listed the reasons in my last post

As a consumer, that pisses me off. Sony actually went to extra trouble to keep me from having something that they gave away for free early on, just so I'd have to buy an inferior version of the previously free thing for 100 dollars. It's basically a price increase on what was at the time a 599 dollar console. You got less for your money.

Then again, "less for your money" is a reoccouring theme with Sony this generation, and thus, they are and shall forever be third with their Playstation 3.

Give me the reigns of that company 2.5 years ago, and the Wii would be sweating right now.

prepare to see a PS2 BC as a FW update in a year

heh. the best part about that statement is you're probably right...

OT: even if you don't care about BC, today's PS3s do kind of suck in HW features (no media card readers, only two USB ports...) however, they do use a lot less power and have bigger hard drives, so I guess it's kind of a tradeoff in that case. However, if you do care about BC (like most people do) today's PS3s absolutely suck a** compared to the launch versions. (that's what makes that lousy first year of owning a $600 paperweightmy PS3 worth it all)