The real reason that BC was removed --it makes you have to buy more Ps3 games...?!?!?! 

Now i could see them pulling it out to get the price lowered--okay ya got me there--However, to pull the software emulation was a bit much Sony--THAT WAS FREE--How far can we "gamers in general" be pushed--When Micro was going around the RRoD issue the consumer spoke up and bullied them back into check--When Nintendo Stuck with cart's for games the consumers again showed what we want--

GO Disc 

Now that BC is becoming a Pull item--first micro made it emulation and now Sony is going completely outs on it--where will it stop? 

I hope this fails b/c it might set a dangerous precedent for Micro--hey Sony software went up for getting rid of it lets try--I know Nin is stuck with theirs b/c of hardware used--but next systems might pull it and not try to get it back?   What do you people think???? Heres the story, http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3163763 

PR talk, don't ever listen to it. The reason for the 40 gig is to lower the price, nothing more. The money from PS2 games go right into Sony's pocket, so it shouldn't be what they want.

Well software emulation is not free to Sony, which is why i seriously doubt they will be implementing it at a later date (unless they bring the PS3 close to profitability, which will be a long way away)...and in fact are probably not going to include much in terms of updating the software emulation on the 80G....so any games that dont work properly now wont be compatible in the future.

I very much doubt they did it to force people to buy more PS3 games.

"Speaking with the Wall Street Journal, Sony Computer Entertainment America President Jack Tretton said the purpose behind removing backward compatibility was to push PS3 software."--from the story

I think Software emulation was costed at 3 dollars.

Hardware (EE) was 30. Now, these numbers sound pulled from my ass, which they may very well be, because my memory has been as flawed as your average DeBeers diamond, but there was an article costing them, and that 3 bucks ain't breaking them.

but if you times $3 by the number of PS3s sold they must be saving at least $15 dollar by taking it out

Why are you guys talking about the cost of software emulation as "cost-per-console"? It should be a fixed cost, which is the cost of developing and testing the emulator... Replicating the emulator to each console is a nearly-$0 (as in $0.0000001) cost since it's included in the firmware...

How does that make sense if SONY would only want to sell PS3 games then they would stop releasing NEW PS2 games and probably would even stop selling the PS2.

because are slowly pulling first party software support for the PS2.

Why is it that these things never die? For cryin out loud people, the "software emulation" models still had some PS2 hardware in them! Namely the first models had both the PS2's CPU (Emotion Engine) and GPU (Graphics Synthesizer). The "software emulation" models kept the GPU. This was removed in the 40GB model.

Stop spreading misinformation if you have no idea what you're talking about.