Italy to get 40GB PS3 on Oct 10, Gamestore mag reports

"We don't want to confuse people with multiple SKUs"

20Gb

40Gb

60Gb

80Gb

As always... Sony and his bullshits.

SONY sucks...at marketing. See what I did there? Flame away.

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Fernando didn't say anything that the Sony fanboys don't throw in Microsofts face. How many times have you seen a Sony fanboy trash MS for having multiple sku's? It works both ways. Both companies really screwed up this gen by having multiple sku's, in my opinion.

I concur..

Note that the starter pack SKUs is already in shops and has been for quite some time (60g, Motorsport, Resistanve and two Sixaxis).

@Frankthecrank

Yeah but the wii is a lame system with a gimmicky controller. There, now we are all equally insulted.

Is there any indication that this SKU will be sold in the US? I'm hearing a lot of noise from Europe, Australia, and Canada about this SKU, especially about price, but barely anything from the US.

I am so tired of these kinds of threads :

1. Lame ass mediocre news item
2. Same twelve people with same twelve comments
3. Break down into fan boy rants and barbs
4. Loss of IQ points and communication skills
5. Rinse and repeat

If I wasn't at work and getting paid to waste my time reading this crap, I would be so pissed.

@slackerdan

That's funny...I get paid to sit on my ass and read/flame these sites as well! We have so much in common..can we be friends?

Kotaku is reporting that a Bestbuy add indicates that this PS3 is incompatable with PS2 software.

So, in other words, another bonehead move by sony.

Actually Microsoft has more SKUs but in the case of Sony is worst.

Let me explain

With Microsoft you have the following Sku’s.

Core:1 Memory stick and 1 game but is going out.

Arcade:1 Memory stick and 4(Or 5 I don’t remember) Arcade games

Premium: (Rocks your socks off): Hard drive and 2 games.

Halo LE: You get halo3, a headset but you lose 1 game. The rest stays the same as the premium.

Elite:120 GB, Wifi, HDMI etc etc

OK

Arcade replaces the core and this pack goes against the Wii, basically you get the price of Kameo in Arcade games.

Premium will change by the end of the year but just the games basically you trade PDZ for MUA and PGR3 for Forza 2 but the content stays the same.

Halo3 LE: Same as Premium except you get other crap in exchange of 1 game.

Elite: Basically the PS3 rival and the most expensive package of them all.

So you see in the case of MS the content changes but not the value.
Now let’s see Sony

20GB 499$ USD-You get a crippled 60GB model for 100$ less but don’t worry is gone

40GB hopefully less than 499$-Accroding to not so reliable sources a 60GB model with 20GB less but you get the rest and maybe 1 game (I hope) but for now is just a 60GB model with 20GB less.

60GB model 599$ USD Now 499$ (if you can found it)-The bigger package, wifi bigger drive etc. For 499$ is good.

80GB model 599$ USD: Better than 60GB and includes 1 game, it has in build Wifi and Ethernet capabilities.

In the case of Sony all early buyers especially the people who bought the 20GB models (lol @ them) were screwed since now late buyers will get a better value more games etc

they're getting the new ones in a week? wow that's fast, even sooner than the oct 12th press conference that was probably going to announce them. now they cancelled the announcement though? damn sony, make up your mind

People should quit whining: PS3 at lower price with HDD = good thing.

Now, if they sold the 40GB PS3 for 450$, I'd still be fucking pissed.