Sony Officially Dropping 20GB PS3 in North America

An anonymous reader writes "Sony has just announced they're officially ditching the 20GB model of the PS3. 'Due to the overwhelming demand for the 60GB model from both retailers and consumers, we have ceased offering the 20GB model here in North America. In addition to the larger internal hard drive, the 60GB PlayStation 3 features added storage media slots and built-in Wi-Fi not found in the 20GB system. Based on retailer and consumer feedback, we have decided to focus our current efforts on the more popular 60GB model.'"

Comments

Re:Makes sense to me

[Fallen Kell]

Wireless costs a total of $7 to add in. I picked up several USB, PCMCIA, and PCI based wireless cards for $7 after rebate almost a year ago... don't say it costs $100 to add when the parts are only $5-6 in cost anymore. It is probably even connected via an internal usb header.

Re:Different company

[The PS3 Will Fail]

"The company with the rootkits is Sony Music, not Sony Games. If your brother robbed a bank should you go to jail too? Truly large companies are really lots of smaller companies that make their own choices."

First of all - corporations are not people. Let's dump the analogies. I believe I am intelligent enough to discuss the actual situation rather than a contrived and inappropriate analogy. Hopefully, you are too. If I buy a PS3 and games, any profit they make off that sale ultimately ends up in the coffers of Sony proper. It is because Sony is a profitable company that all of those divisions exist. In fact, the games division has been helping Sony to stay in the black for many years. So why would I want to give money to a company that does something I completely disagree with?

Furthermore, where was your defense of their predatory lawsuits against lik-sang.com, I don't seem to see it in your post.

Re:Responsibility but nopt the choice

[The PS3 Will Fail]

"Again I ask, if your brother rob a bank should you go to jail? Your father raised both of you, why shouldn't he go to jail? You talked to your brother at some point, surely you are to blame. All of these statements are as silly as what you are trying to say."

Apparently, you're not smart enough to discuss the situation without an inappropriate analogy. Okay - I will play along. I'm going to modify your statement to make it applicable to the situation with Sony.

Let's suppose I have a brother who shoots lots of people. He's a mad man, he's got lots and lots of guns and he just loves to walk around on the street putting the gun in someone's face and blowing their head apart. And when he runs out of bullets, he takes a big fucking knife out and just goes to town carving people up. Alright? So we've got my brother - who is doing some bad stuff. Then you've got me - I'm selling game consoles. You've also got my other brother who files predatory lawsuits against lik-sang.com and drives them out of business - stealing the right of resale and basically making garage sales illegal. So we've got two asshole brothers and me. Then you've got my father, he's running the show.

Now, do you want to buy my console knowing that when I get some money, that money may end up going up to my father and then down to one of my asshole brothers? Perhaps the brother that shoots people wants to buy some more bullets. Well, look at that, I just sold a console and made a little money. That should get my brother some more bullets.

Your analogy is fucking stupid but I used it to show that in your analogy, rewarding one brother results in civilians getting shot in the face.

Next?

Re:Sound familiar?

[DanTheManMS]

So much for "20 GB is enough for anyone"

What are you talking about? It's 640 kb, remember?

Re:Responsibility but nopt the choice

[SuperKendall]

Ok Spider Man, it's true that the president of that division is still in place. So your father was in on the heist (though frankly I think it's ore the case the board does not realize just how large a blunder that was). Should you too go to jail?