You young people do not seem to have the slightest clue as to what is going in the industry on so I'll try to explain it a little more in detail:

If X wants to sell an electronic product Y that contains anything that might emit radiation of any kind, the product has to be certified that it conforms to certain regulations (which may or may not differ from country to country). This new SKU as per the linked document obviously contains a new Wifi connection, so it has to pass this examination that ensures Y does not disturb other equipment. Since Sony is Japanese, the test was done in Japan. This EMI (ElectroMagnetic Interference test) apparently passed early september so it can be sold in Japan (and by mutual agreement probably everywhere else. In addition, if this SKU is supposed to be sold in Europe, it has to get the "CE label" (a test procedure that guarantees that any electronic gadget sold in the EU cannot "run away" and electrocute the user if operated unattended (no word on this, probably is awarded automatically with the EMI certificate, don't know really). It really has nothing to do with the price of Y.

And another thing: which harddisk goes into the new SKU was determined at least a year ago, and the number of hds was also ordered at the same time (and at that time, probably cost around $22 for a 40G and $25 for a 80G drive. Unless Sony is foolish enough to order their material days before production starts, in that case it's probably around $80 for the 40G and $90 for the 80G drive...)

Maybe they are updating the Wifi to Draft-N then

There was no mention of N in any of the wifi stuff =(

Not sure about him but for me.....

And I have watched a vide and/or read an article on probably 60% of those games ...the other 40% I am completely not interested in. Now if you want to make a list for early '08 you will see a lot more "Moderate Interest" & "Very Interested" comments.

But anyways back to the topic:

I don't see how this eludes to a 40GB model at all. It simply says they are in the early stages of looking at a new SKU. It could be 40GB, it could 800GB...we just don't have any info about it.

The saw reason and added an IR port?

 I missed this, do you have a quote.  That would basically cause sales to plummet in January and February as most people would wait for a confirmed price cut.  This is why PR denies price cuts as long as possible.

Couldn't this just be a cost saving feature, some component change in the WiFi adapter that will save a few dollars per console?

Err, how does 40 gigs add up to dropping the price 200 bucks?

Also i dont think MS would twiddle their thumbs while this was occuring, you could expect another price drop from MS

No, it was sarcastic.  There's a huge difference between irony and sarcasm.

people the only reason we Belive this to be the 40gb model is because 2 other media outlets have metioned inside info on a 40gb ps3 to come out. Sony themselves wont confirm a damn thing yet cause it would force people to wait for the cheaper model even if they where going to suck it up and buy the more expensive model right now.