LOL!!! Sony, you lot are officially fucking STUPID. Forgive my language but you guys just don't get it, do you? PS3 isn't selling because of the high price, because you dumb muppets used Blu Ray, making it so expensive.

You obviously don't want your customers to play games. As a U.K gamer resident I can tell you now, this 40gb piece of crap isn't gonna sell any skus. You Sony freaks sell a console with backwards compatibility from day one and remove it TWICE, afterwards. Give me a fucking break.

Bravo on the price, but if I can't play my PS2 and PS1 games (why the hell should I download them again, when I have them physically), knowing that you lot are gonna stop making PS2s soon, I certainly won't be touching this crap. I really don't know why you can't just stop fiddling and shuffling skus, and just drop the price.

Some of you guys n' girls on here counting this is nothing are deluded. The majority of gamers trade in or sell their PS2s to get PS3s, so this piece of shit leaves them high and dry. I collect my stuff so I'll be one of the lucky ones, but I don't want to have to bust out my PS2, in order to cover a simple angle that Sony promised before PS3 was even out.

THAT'S ALL WE WANT, A FUCKING REASONABLE PS3 PRICE WITHOUT COMPROMISE, NOW MORE, NO LESS. IT'S TOO LATE NOW, CONGRATS ON SEALING YOUR FATE.

That's retarded, who would want that? The playstation brand basically invented backwards compatibility and now they aren't offering it on all of their console skus? Next we'll hear that the $99 dollar PS2 won't have BC either, but hey it's ok, just keep your PS1 if you wan't to play MGS1 again. Seriously who wants to keep an extra console around, its just more shelf space taken and tv inputs taken.

@ ArrestedDeveloper:

You know, they've been selling exactly the system you're clamoring for for some time now. It's the $499 PS3. Just what the non-sacrificing, sophisticated buyer wants! Bigger hard drive, more USB ports, backwards compatibility...

Guys it plays Blu-Rays and PS3 games, and costs $400. What more do you want?!

I get the feeling that most of the people bitching about this weren't exactly itching to get a PS3 in the first place.

i dont see why this is such a issu, you guys act like they are going to keep making ps2 games for the next 10 years!!!! Unfuckinbelievable that some of you so called "gamers" are complaining about complete and utter bullshit. And another thing, if you are a "gamer" then you should already have a fucking ps2 you fucking fucks.

"What the hell is up with everyone saying they have too many models?"

let's see...

taken from wiki-

As of October 2007, there have been four announced hardware models of the PlayStation 3: a 20 GB model, a 60 GB model, an 80 GB model, and a 40 GB model (the xx GB names referring to the size of the internal hard drive of the system).

Sony needs to insert a shotgun into their mouth and pull the trigger.

LMAO you guys are unbelivable. Bottom line is if you dont have a ps2 by now, why the hell would you want a ps3???

"Because the PS2 was a lemon and the PS3 so far doesn't appear to be? Some of us actually waited this long just hoping for a more durable hardware, and if so can catch up on some of the titles we missed."

So if I got this right, you want to buy a ps3 to "catch up" on some titles you missed? Then that means you go deep, pay the extra $100 and get the one with BC. Its not like the new 40gb version is your only choice.

fuck you sony

signed
Europe
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