PS3 Price Drop Confirmed
Sony has finally confirmed the rumors of a price drop and 40 Gig PS3. Expected to be out for the consumerism driven winter holiday of your choosing, the 40 Gig PS3 is not what you might have expected. Sony's newest hardware offerings are lacking in the extreme. Granted, it's been priced at £299 (with no North American pricing details confirmed as of yet) but that drop in pricing comes with a cost. Not only are there only 2 USB ports and a missing multi-memory card port but backwards compatibility has been completely abandoned.
Regarding the decision to drop backwards compatibility for the 40 Gig version SCEE was quoted thus:
"both the reduced emphasis placed on this feature amongst later purchasers of PS3, as well as the availability of a more extensive line-up of PS3 specific titles (a total of 65 titles across all genres by Christmas)."
I'm curious how many people will actually be enticed into buying the 40 Gig model with the promise of new games when they can't play their old ones.
I've said multiple times that a significant price drop for the PS3 might entice me to finally buy one, but given the lack of backwards compatibility I'm still holding out. Granted, there may eventually be a game that finally gets me to plunk my hard earned dollars down but so far I'm not impressed and the news of a price drop just isn't enough to distract me from what amounts to essentially a brand new console.
What say you?!