Thursday, January 24th 2008
Best Buy Discontinuing 80GB PS3?
SCEA already announced plans to discontinue the 20GB and 60GB PS3 SKUs from the Japan market. Two days ago we also reported that a ceramic PS3 is coming to the US. Now a rumour has it that Sony is also discontinuing the 80GB version of PS3. It all starts with an anonymous Best Buy employee scan of an internal letter, which notifies employees that the 80GB system is being discontinued. "The 80GB version of the PS3 is going closeout and won't be replaced at this time," it reads. "It will come off the planogram on Jan. 28. The 60GB version should already be gone from stores. Only the 40GB version of PS3 will be sold in Best Buy stores at this time." The 40GB model currently costs $399, and is the cheapest PS3 available. However, it does have a few limitations: it lacks memory card readers, features only two USB ports, and most importantly, loses backwards compatability, as noted in the memo. "This means that there currently isn't a version that is PS2 compatible,".
Source:
PS3 Fanboy
25 Comments on Best Buy Discontinuing 80GB PS3?
This says it all about buying PS3
Heck we havent even gotten a 80GB model here yet and looks like we may never if that memo has any truth to it. I mean they even chopped down the BC on the EU models as ours doesnt even have the emotion engine.
Saddest bit is there are more PS3s sold here than in NA but we seem to get the short end. I do miss SCEA as SCEE is pants..
I work for J&R music and computer world and my system shows the 80gb PS3 as being discontinued.........
Honestly I don't understand the appeal at all to overpriced, hot runing consoles that offer less gameplay than a PC. Sure I have consoles, but they are old, N64, Genesis, SNES, and an NES. I had a Dreamcast and a PS2 but sold them.
If this is true, that means Sony is the only console manufacturer to not offer backwards compatibility on their console.:shadedshu
And Folding@Home is available of PC, it was a long time before the PS3 was even put on paper.
As for the games, yeah I agree, and personally they are several types of games that I just prefer to play on Consoles. Of course there are some I prefer to play on PC too.
Racing, Fighting, and 3rd Person Adventure are all types of games that I just feel work better on a console.
First Person Shooters, RTSes, and MMORPGs all work better on PC, IMO.
I don't think either is better than the other, they both are two different beasts. However, I will say that if I had to give one or the other up, I would get rid of the PS3.
Sony will post something later today on their blog addressing this.
TO ANYONE COMPLAING ABOUT BACKWARDS COMPTABILITY: Most of those who are complaining about backwards comptability don't even own a PS3, and are just complaining to complain about the PS3. The majority of the PS3s being sold are the 40gb, the ones that only have the PS1 compability. I think Sony's sells numbers speak for themself, no one who is buying a PS3 right now cares that much about the backwards comptability because most of their sells are the 40gb. The price is better, I could care less about playing my PS2 games on my PS3, mostly because I played them all to a point where I don't want to play them anymore (and I'm not paying a 100$ more just for the convience to pop them in my PS3). Furthermore, anyone who doesn't have a PS2 probably isn't buying a PS3 to play the classic PS2 games. Additionally, the PS2 is still being sold right now so it hasn't yet reached that "retro" market of games.