Rumor: Sony announcing 40GB PS3 this week

Announcing a 40GB version is pretty much irrelevant - they've already fucked up in every way possible and short of giving these things away for free, are not going to get back to #1 for a very long time.

"A 399$ ps3 has a lot more going for it, blu-ray and all."

LOLOLOL.

Oh wait, you're serious.

BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!

20 ought to be enough, because that's what Sony has to support officially.

Really, does anyone know just how much space they need? The manufacturer has to support the smallest capacity available, and consumers don't know exactly how much space is really being used, especially in the long run.

Solution: sell the biggest hard drive available! 60... no, 80... no, 100!

Geez. They could've just said the 20GB model was the game system and the 80GB model is the home entertainment system. The problem with multiple SKUs is trying to get them all to do the same thing.

you do know what game is hitting tomorrow, right?

I wouldn't be suprized if 360 passed the the Wii in worldwide sales after this week. And after Microsoft rides out the halo3 rush of console buyers, they'll be in prime position to lower the price if they find sales begin to slow

- Last time I checked sales for the 360 are stalled in every territory other than the U.S.

Sales might have slowed down, but they're still 2-1 at least when comparing to the PS3.

- How many DVDs are included with Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Halo 3.

Who really cares about having to switch a DVD every couple of days if it means getting the console at least 6 months earlier and saving at least $200?

You talk about it like cancer - people have been doing it for years with no issues.

- At $399 the price is competitive with the 360 premium, but includes a high-definition player.

So you're justifying a higher price for a console that doesn't perform as well (not even half as well as promised), doesn't have any killer games, and is such an abortion that a new version of it is being released every couple of months?

- If you hit the price and have the games, then you'll get the casual gamer to buy into the system.

But that's one of the many problems - they don't have the games, do they? Any killer games they have lined up in the distant future are also heading to the 360 - that's assuming that none of them are confirmed as 360 exclusives by then, and from the rate at which devs and publishers are jumping off Sony's sinking ship, don't be too surprised if it happens.

As for the price, what, you think only Sony can lower prices? If Sony lowers the price of the PS3 by $100 (and takes an even bigger financial hit per console sold as a result), then the other two companies will simply do the same - the difference being that it won't hurt them as much at all.

lollll

if i were you i'd take that money meant for a ps3, put it in a CD at a bank, and when those rpg's eventually come out, cash out the cd and you'll have an extra 30 bucks or so, that's half a game right there

or it might be more. i don't remember how compound interest works

we already know sony is dumb

and that last 80gb should be 20 in your post. too bad we can't edit

The 20gb version didn't have built in Wi-Fi nor card readers, so people must have been put off by that, at least I was.

I assume the 40gb will keep these? So I think the 40gb will do better.

Or hell, release one without a hard drive and let us put our own in it, wish the 360 could let us do that. : (

As a Sony fanboy, they should have released it without Blu-Ray to make it the same price as the 360, it would have sold better, and since more people would have had it, developers would make more games for it. Its a snowball effect, Blu-Ray wasn't a good idea.

They should have made one without it and one with it included for those wishing to watch Blu-Ray movies. At first, I thought Microsoft was idiotic for releasing the 360 again with DVD but in retrospect, nope, Sony made a blunder with this.

Just like Nintendo sticking to cartridges with the N64, so they lost a lot of games to Playstation's better CD format, such as FF7.

The difference is that the 20 gig was released at a time when only the craziest of the hardcore were buying the system: the guys willing to pay any outrageous price for a console with only launch titles. These people weren't interested in a stripped down "bargain" version.

Now, a year later, the average consumers are starting to sniff the air for a PS3. It's cheaper, it's got more games, the bugs are worked out -- it's beginning to appeal to "normal" people. THESE are the folks who will buy a bargain version.

There's also an issue of absolute/relative price that probably plays a factor. At $500+, plopping down an extra $100 doesn't seem like a big deal. When the difference is $400 versus $500, though, that hundred dollar gap seems a lot bigger. It's a lot easier to justify the cheaper one.

That's why I think it's time for a 40 gig model. Hopefully Sony thinks so too.