20GB PS3 discontinued
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- Boz0
doesn't matter..the 20gb version has been long gone, the announcement is no surprise. It's very simple, when Sony came out with PS3 they knew they had to hype up the console and eventually compare it with XBox 360. That's where the $499 crippled PS3 came into play.
They had a comparable console to XBox 360 but they could say oh we have a Blu-ray on ours. Now, keep in mind, they had to do this in order to justify the extremely high cost of the 60gb version, otherwise they would've lost right away. The press would kill them and btw, it still does as to be honest XBox 360 + HD-DVD player + wifi + 2 controllers + remote + headset + 2 games pretty much equals PS3 60gb with HDMI and Blu-Ray, not to mention that with PS3 you don't get an extra controller, a headset nor the remote.
Of course when I compare the two I'm talking about beginning of the year and XBox 360 had all those things included as a bundle.
So, it becomes very clear, for Sony to sell PS3 they needed a cheaper marketing version that will allow them to say, hey you see we have $499 version that beats anything that MS has with XBox 360 for the same price. That's how it all started.
Everyone pretty much forgot to mention that by iSuppli, Sony is losing $307 on every 20GB PS3 that it sells and $241 on every 60GB PS3 and this is why they killed it off. Forget about that crap about 9:1. It's just a justification. Of course it's 9:1 when they released 20gb version in such small numbers that the only thing you could buy was 60gb version.
Just my 2 cents.