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Originally Posted by RS8MB0R8
My question is, does anybody actually know the ridiculous reason Sony are discontinuing the 60GB version in the UK (and possibly elsewhere) when it isn't backwards compatible and most people buying one will probably have a stack of PS2 titles that is more expansive than even my collection? It hasn't got the same memory capacity and has fewer USB ports on it for controllers and other devices?
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The 60GB model with backwards compability costs a lot more to make and Sony loses money every time someone buys one. That's the way it is with most consoles. The money comes from selling games and the rights to make the games. Which is why they want to sell PS3 games, not have people play their old PS2 games. In the US thy had a model with complete backwards compability, done with an emulator chip. They removed it from the European versions because it was too expensive to make. Now their scrapping all of backwards compability. Seems perfectly logical, but not too rational if you're a PS2 owner...
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