Why is the Playstation 3 60 Gigabite no longer available?

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I was just wondering why Sony was no longer selling the Playstation 3 60 Gig version in Britain anymore? As the 40 gig has obviously less memory and no PS2 backwards compatibility. Also does anyone know if there is plans for the release of the 80 gig version in Britain? Thanks for any answers! :)

the only reason Sony stop producing the 60 gig is because they could save money, instead of having 4 there are only 2 controller ports, all of the card readers have gone CF,

SD/Mini SD, Pro, and with the backwards compatibility it all about the micro chips and programs that the PS needs to run these backwards compatibility, this all save s money so Sony have can have a major price drop within the next few years dominating even further in the console wars, soon 300 quid PS3 won't be a joke, what with the hi-def blu ray player included in the price,



i sacrificed for a chance to get my PlayStation 3 and it was worth it.



i say if you can't afford a PlayStation now you don't deserve one.

That's sony for you. They stopped the 60GB one so that everyone has to but worse technology, they'll probably bring out costly upgrades in the future

ps3 by far it's your home system ihave a psp and i only use it for music. with all these next gen systems out you would put down the psp and play the ps3. What a stupid question the price range is crazy. a psp is 184 with tax included and a 40gb(can't play ps2 games) is 400 with tax, how do pick a psp over a ps3

dont no, but i got the 60GB

price reduction plan

ntn 's available except 40gb till 12 jne so m buying ps3 40gb here in india

duh!!!!! i wish they could have had discontinued it a lil later

Just go get the 40gb one as it has wifi (good if it's going to be placed nowhere near a router).

Go to the shops, buy a hard drive, take the old one out and place the new one in.

Keep the old one as you'll need to put that one back if you take it back for warranty.

There are guides on google on how to do this.



Haven't taken it out, but I'm pretty sure they're 2.5" laptop drives.

So you can have a ps3 with a 300gb hdd :)

The reason unfortunately is that Sony regions operate as separate companies, and the PS3 is selling so much better than the 360 in Europe so SCEE don't have to compete, so they screw the consumer.



The 40GB is 100 pounds cheaper in the US. The European Sony store took months to sell "pain", Europe never got the 1.1 CoD4 patch because SCEE took forever to approve it.



SCEE haven't announced any plans for the 80GB, having previously said they don't need PS2 compatibility and ignoring what their customers are asking for it will probably not happen.

bcoz they use hardware emulation for playing ps2 games which will cost high and due to high price people dont want to ps3 so sony stopped producing ps3 30 gb

i thinks it because the 60gb chip or somthing stupid like that was too expensive to make so they stopped making them for the uk and i dont think there is a chance of an 80gb getting realesed in the uk