20GB PS3 discontinued
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- Boz0
Yeah Jaline and look what they are doing with Japan. They still sell 20gb version there. It's pretty simple, they need to keep fighting and maintaing the lead in Japan over XBox 360, not to mention that the 20gb version in Japan costs $441.
It's pretty much the strategy again. They cut the 20gb from everywhere else, still keep it in Japan because they need it there very bad, they give a ridiculously high price in Europe for the 60gb PS3 as they think they can get away with it and compensate the manufacturing losses (PS3 60gb in Europe is almost $900) and they can't keep losing money in US so they just keep the 60gb version.
Their tactics are very obvious. But I'm pretty sure they are aware that PS3 already lost. Even Sony's CEO is doubting the PS3 and hints of possible failure and says:
"“Wii is a wonderful device, but has a different target audience. If we fail, it is because we positioned PS3 as the Mercedes of the video game field. "
The whole article shows that he's sure that Blu-Ray will win but not so sure about PS3.
So the only thing that Sony is banking on at this moment is pretty much Blu-Ray. This is why they force the 60gb version, because the people who buy PS3 60gb are mostly buying it now for the Blu-Ray player, since the PS3 as BD player is still a bargain as a player but still a poor console, as the games are pretty much non-existent.
I just also read in Game Informer that a lot of game publishers have the games ready for PS3, but they are waiting for PS3 to increase the install base as they can't recover their expenses with such small amount of PS3s. With prices that Sony has, I highly doubt that will happen soon. IMO that is.