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Is Sony going to give store credit to everyone who bought a PS3 in America?
Maybe if people whine about it enough, they will.
That would help. If they just cut the price 20% across the board and stopped lying and cheating their own customers with fake unavailable models and squirrelly weird crippled hardware people would buy them. But when they pull this crap, no one really wants to deal with them. What Sony is doing is like MS announcing the Halo 3 version of the 360 concurrent with a discount on all the other models then pulling all those other models off the shelf and announcing a price increase on the Halo 3 model. It's called bait and switch. At the least it's unethical.
And seriously for that much money the PS3 should have a DVD burner or a DVR, minimum.
The PS3 released in Europe will no longer be backwards compatible with PS2 games - which would be a bummer had there not been so many backwards compatibility issues in the first place (quite simply - it didn't work). HOWEVER, who has a bunch of PS2 games sitting around but lacks a PS2 to play them on?
But still, $560? That's STILL insanely expensive. Especially for a console that has been plagued by technical issues from the day it was released until... well until now, and all the seconds after now. Simply, you don't buy a play station because you want to. You buy a Play station because you feel you have to.
WII4EVA
