Geez... Your brother got ripped of.. when Bart Smit was clearing their 40gb stock they sold it at 250 euro's....

Tis was in december 2008:

They both do, there isn't a difference. I got a 80 gig that's why ;)

No problem, he didn't want a PS3 back then. He was still addicted to WoW at that moment!

I want a 40gb ps3 for $250.

And BC.

They are clearing out the 40GB stock as the Ps3 slim is due in October/November imo

I actually won't be surprised if SONY has a stock clearing $50 PS3 price cut WW, just to get the fat models out of the shelves

Well it not that odd that stores would have stock of older PS3s around, remember a few months back Amazon had a bunch of the MGS4 bundles, with the original BC 80GB.

didn't that sku go out of production years ago? Why would they still have some around? o.o

Probably just a few 40 gigs leftover from last year.

I think a similar thing happened here (Saskatchewan, Canada). I heard an ad for this place called Computer Trends that advertised $300 (I think) PS3's for their best sale ever (until next weekend's sale) sale. I shrugged it off because I figured they'd be refurb units like everything else they tend to sell, but I never checked it out to confirm.