From time to time I like to dive into other news surrounding our favorite hobby. I like to stay diverse in my uberness ya know. It seems like the pricing merry-go-round continues as Sony brings another version of its PlayStation 3 console to the market. Equipped with a 40-gigabyte hard drive and no support for backward compatibility, the new PlayStation 3 will retail for $399. It will be available on November 2nd.
Yes, you heard that right. Those of you opting to pick this little gem up will have to do so knowing you will not be able to play that stack of PlayStation 2 games. Backward compatibility has never been an interest of mine but it was a strong selling point from Sony. I’m surprised they opted to go this route and even more surprised at the comments from Jack Tretton, president of Sony Computer Entertainment America.
“Backward compatibility is a nice secondary consideration, but it’s far from the number-one priority,” Tretton said.
Where are all the hecklers about Microsoft’s stance on backward compatibility now? I’ve just never been interested in it on my Xbox 360. I applaud both Sony and Microsoft for making it low priority. How appealing will this be to Sony fans?
October 18th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Oh, I thought you had top secret government connections.
October 18th, 2007 at 11:15 am
oh i do. just i didn’t use them for this
October 18th, 2007 at 11:52 am
The 80gig PS3 is now 500 bucks O_O.
October 18th, 2007 at 11:57 am
there’s only one thing that bothers me about PlayStation. and it’s the controller. the games bother me too but overall, i just really can’t stand the controller.
had it not been for that, i might have a PS3 right now.
October 18th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
I love the PS3 controller but I really would like some games to play before get one.
October 18th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Yeah, I didn’t know until recently that the 80G isn’t fully software BC, it still had the graphics chip of the PS2 in it. 40G having no BC will be a blow to a lot of casual gamers. …let alone let’s not forget that it is losing two USB ports and the memory card reader.
October 18th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
@ $400 its still just a cheap bluray player with no games…..and now even less games. Off topic - Hey D you gotta check out the unreal 3 demo.
October 18th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
i plan to hit that this weekend…been playing a lot of Enemy Territory of late.
October 18th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
But when you think about it Sony is still making games for the PS2 such as God of War 2 and other games so why not make it BC. I still play my PS2 but I won’t buy a PS3 unless I want to get a BlueRay player. The PS3 just doesn’t have a good library of games even if they dropped the price to $199.00 .
Plus with the war between HD-DVD and BlueRay, I’m not sure which player to invest in yet so I’ll stick with my regular DVD’s.
October 18th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
totally agree…I hate the PS controllers as well…I have no desrire to own a PS3…MG and FF don’t appeal to me..