40GB PS3 Officially Announced in Europe...Price, Specs Inside

Eh, if I were to get a PS3 I'd want it to play my PS2 games since I'd probably get rid of the PS2 since it'll just take up more space. So I'll stick with getting the 60GB eventually.

no backwards compatibility sucks.............. unless the price drop is enough for me to consider not selling my ps2 to compensate cost

Pretty short sided considering Ps2 software sales trump Ps3's. Not to mention all the Japanese companies are still producing Ps2 games.

Eh. Wake me up when God of War III is out and then I'll get a PS3.

I dont remember where I read it, but i read somewhere that Guitar Hero 3 will be the final PS2 game released.

They are getting their ass kicked?
-A year in and Nintendo has doubled their sales, and they aren't even close to competing w/ 360.
-Japan has seemingly turned their backs to the PS3
-Their "big" franchises have either come up bust (Lair) or been delayed to 2008 (GTA4, MGS4, KZ2).
-The market for high def DVD hasn't been the boon they hoped for (where DVD essentially carried PS2 for its 1st year, this time its been an anemic PS3 carrying BluRay).
-The last price cut had less of an effect than hoped for, thanks to them letting slip that the 60gig was being discontinued. Everyone who paid attention (which is most of those willing to spend $500 on a console) was willing to wait for the price cut that would come once the 60g model sold out. Ironically that dried up 60g sales and delayed the cut.

Since the only thing that helped sales at all was the price cut (and again I think that disappointed), they had little choice but to sit pat or cut again. Unfortunately with their losses on each console they could only hit $399 by drastically cutting features.

So all this shit has me confused, which version of the PS3 is the best, the 80GB one, or the original 60GB one? I know each model is different aside from the amount of GBs, right?

IIRC The original Japanese and North American 60 GB models have the highest level of backwards compatibility.

I find it very odd/desperate that BC becomes worse as Sony "advances" the PS3. You'd think that would be something they would be better off improving as time goes on.

Originally Posted by @GogDog When life gives you lemons, you KICK IT IN!

In the US the 60gb and the 20gb still have the EE+GS(Combo chip in use since the later PS2 models), The 80gb and 40gb units are the ones that skip over it. If the European 60gb, and the 80gb can manage BC through sofware emulation I don't see how the new 40gb will be incapable of that. Neither the EE or the GS are manufactured seperately anymore so there is next to no way that the european 60gb version has a pure GS chip in it so the emulation it achieves must be pure software.