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By: Daniel Cox Oct 08, 2007

Sony to discontinue 60GB PlayStation 3 in Europe

Sony has announced that once the current stock of 60GB PlayStation 3's has sold out, European regions will only have access to the newly introduced 40GB model.

The frankly bizzare decision comes after Sony Europe announced a price cut for the 60GB model to £349 which the company said was in response to consumer feedback (We wanted the machine cheaper? That's rocket science for you)

The company also unveiled a 40GB PlayStation 3 due to go on sale this Wednesday, but gave no indication that the 60GB model would be discontinued.

"The 60GB Starter pack will remain on sale until stocks run out (a number of months, depending on territory.) Thereafter, the 40GB model will be the only SKU in the SCEE region," said Nick Sharples, director of corporate communications in Europe, according to Kotaku.

What they do seem to be playing down slightly is that the new 40gb SKU will have NO backwards compatibility at all, only 2 USB ports and no card reader which seems to back track a bit on their previous home multimedia pub statements.

Does anyone else wonder what on earth is going on in the board room at Sony?

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Bjorn3D	2007-10-08 #1
Thats just plain stupid.

Reoryn	2007-10-08 #2
Glad I'm not the only one that thinks so... dunno what they're thinking ripping out the backwards compatibility altogether. Sounds like a 3 in the morning decision to me.

redhotfanboy	2007-10-08 #3
I'm guessing they want to lose. PS2/PS1 library was a major selling point to me on the PS3 seeing as my PS2 was dying.

Langaleer

2007-10-08 #4

Maybe its time for EU to fight back at Sony. Sony have already got away with losing the PS2 hardware in the PS3 and EU are now being completely ripped off with removing what was one of the only selling points for the console.

I really think SONY needs a huge wakeup call, but unfortunately the people "not in the know" outweighs the people "in the know" with stuff like this, so the sales will still probably be pretty consistant allowing them to get away with it once again.

I can see it now, "new PS3 SKU - cheaper model than before, 10GB HDD, No PS3 game compatability"....the only thing left will be that it has a SONY logo on it (and more than likely the people not in the know will still buy it!!

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Unregistered	2007-10-08 #5
â€œI am big Dictator Sonyâ€ We will stretch the truth and downgrade our products for the EU, you will pay more! You can thank us now and give us your money Brainless robots!