The 40GB PS3.
Sony has announced that Japan is set to follow Europe in getting a PS3 price cut and the introduction of the 40GB, non backwards-compatible PS3.
Japan's existing PS3 Stock Keeping Units (SKU) - the 20Gb and 60Gb models - will both see price cuts of 5,000 yen (£21) to 44,980 yen (£188.96) and 54,980 yen (£231) respectively.
The 40GB PS3, meanwhile, will actually sell for less than the 20Gb SKU, with a price of 39,980 yen (£168). Bear in mind that the 20Gb version comes without WiFi or card reader.
The news follows the European announcement of the 40GB PS3 alongside a price cut on the 60GB SKU. We're now left to wonder, however, whether one of the existing Japanese SKUs will be allowed to sell out as it was revealed yesterday will happen to the 60GB PS3 over here.
SCEI is obviously uncomfortable with having two SKUs on the market, with the 20GB PS3 never having made it over here and having been dropped in the States, followed by the phasing out of the 60GB PS3 in the US and its aforementioned drop over here.
In Japan, however, Sony has remained surprisingly steadfast in its production of the 20GB PS3. With Sony America's dropping of the SKU, it was widely anticipated that the model would be killed in Japan. To date, however, it remains on the market. Could it be that Sony has more faith in its Japanese customers to not be bamboozled by more than one kind of PS3 on the market than it does in us Westerners?
Japan's existing PS3 Stock Keeping Units (SKU) - the 20Gb and 60Gb models - will both see price cuts of 5,000 yen (£21) to 44,980 yen (£188.96) and 54,980 yen (£231) respectively.
The 40GB PS3, meanwhile, will actually sell for less than the 20Gb SKU, with a price of 39,980 yen (£168). Bear in mind that the 20Gb version comes without WiFi or card reader.
The news follows the European announcement of the 40GB PS3 alongside a price cut on the 60GB SKU. We're now left to wonder, however, whether one of the existing Japanese SKUs will be allowed to sell out as it was revealed yesterday will happen to the 60GB PS3 over here.
SCEI is obviously uncomfortable with having two SKUs on the market, with the 20GB PS3 never having made it over here and having been dropped in the States, followed by the phasing out of the 60GB PS3 in the US and its aforementioned drop over here.
In Japan, however, Sony has remained surprisingly steadfast in its production of the 20GB PS3. With Sony America's dropping of the SKU, it was widely anticipated that the model would be killed in Japan. To date, however, it remains on the market. Could it be that Sony has more faith in its Japanese customers to not be bamboozled by more than one kind of PS3 on the market than it does in us Westerners?
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Joji 9 Oct 2007 10:51
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I doubt the japanese gamers will dig the lack of BC at all, however japanese gamers tend to keep their consoles more, so the 40gb might not affect them as much.
Even as they Sony machine pushes these things out, I'm getting the idea that PS3 is still more about Blu Ray as it ever was. In their eyes it just about getting people to buy, and two fingers to gamers.
If they can remove a vital component of PS3 and think nothing of it that's gotta be ttheir mindset.
Even as they Sony machine pushes these things out, I'm getting the idea that PS3 is still more about Blu Ray as it ever was. In their eyes it just about getting people to buy, and two fingers to gamers.
If they can remove a vital component of PS3 and think nothing of it that's gotta be ttheir mindset.
realvictory 9 Oct 2007 12:56
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I wouldn't say backwards compatibility is vital. It's strange that people see it as a reason to buy a PS3, when you could just get a PS2. It's cheaper as well, so the extra money could buy you a PS2.
I have a PS2, but I haven't played a single PS2 game since I got a PS3. It's nice to know that the PS3 could play PS2 games, but it's the most important thing ever.
However, although I don't feel the need to complain, I still don't think they should have removed it.
I have a PS2, but I haven't played a single PS2 game since I got a PS3. It's nice to know that the PS3 could play PS2 games, but it's the most important thing ever.
However, although I don't feel the need to complain, I still don't think they should have removed it.