THE ABSOLUTE SHAME OF SONY'S 40GB PS3
Sony’s 10 year plan is really taking shape – after seven months on sale in Europe, release a low-spec, cut-down, cheaper model to avert a total sales disaster. No doubt this course of action was planned out in Tokyo, back in 2004, as part of Sony’s amazing Ten Year Third Reich of gaming.
Un-be-freaking-lievable. This just makes launch day buyers look even more monumentally fuckwitted. Bend over, PS3 owners, you’ve officially been shafted.
That’s just over 300 quid. Cheaper, but don’t forget to set another 30 quid aside so you can buy a rumbling controller in 2008. Truly despicable.
filed in Uncategorized on Oct.03, 2007
October 3rd, 2007 on 12:13 pm
I remain un-flabbergasted by sony’s dirty tactics.
October 3rd, 2007 on 1:00 pm
wouldn’t
October 3rd, 2007 on 1:04 pm
Does that mean we can get a gimped version of the PS3, without any games or rumble, for about the same price as an Xbox 360 Elite now? AWESOME.
October 3rd, 2007 on 2:07 pm
and save 40 quid for a game at chrimbo 2008.
October 3rd, 2007 on 3:01 pm
Cocks…
ttatgwi = so thats where it is….
October 3rd, 2007 on 3:32 pm
I’m not buying an out-of-focus console, even if it is negative pounds!
vtfdaxm – Exactly!
October 3rd, 2007 on 5:37 pm
And, miraculously, it is even less backwards compatible than its predecessors.
yjbdma – Yojimbo’s grandmother?
October 3rd, 2007 on 5:41 pm
The new 40gig gimped out PS3’s launch will coincide with a new TV show called “Gimp My PS3” where a dodgy hip hop star and a bunch of console technicians take a useless expensive piece of shit and turn it into a useless less expensive gimped out piece of shit.
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/9361/ps3gimpnh4.jpg
October 3rd, 2007 on 5:42 pm
Wow this site fails.
People want a cheaper Ps3
Sony gives people a cheaper ps3
People moan more
Just be happy for a change
October 3rd, 2007 on 5:50 pm
We don’t want a cheaper PS3. We want a BURNING PILE of PS3s.
October 3rd, 2007 on 8:09 pm
Nice to see you’re maintaining a hard line against unappreciative newcomers Zorg. He’s wrong anyway, if people wanted a cheaper PS3, they’d have bought the 20GB one, and they didn’t. I suspect Sony must have stolen a huge amount of 40GB HDDs, and now they’re using them in a desperate bid to lower production costs.
October 3rd, 2007 on 8:22 pm
Resistance100, no one wants a cheaper PS3. No one wants a PS3, but some wankers think its going to get them laid having it up next to their Pez dispenser collection.
UKResistance is the last bastion of truth in video-game reporting, and you should be ashamed for your lack of appreciation.
oogcjzhx – The coughing noise Resistance100 makes when Sony ejaculates into his trachea.
October 3rd, 2007 on 8:49 pm
http://www.bilalsheikh.co.uk/burningps3s.jpg
yeah, i just did the ‘fire’ paintbrush in paintshop pro, as i don’t even care enough anymore to do a decent job
October 3rd, 2007 on 9:20 pm
Nikomus said…
Nice to see you’re maintaining a hard line against unappreciative newcomers Zorg. He’s wrong anyway, if people wanted a cheaper PS3, they’d have bought the 20GB one, and they didn’t.
Europe were never given the option of a 20Gb PS3, Europe had to bend over from day one.
October 3rd, 2007 on 9:46 pm
I actually remembered that before I pressed post, but I just couldn’t be bothered to change it.
Strange that in the USA they stop making the 20GB version to concentrate on the 60GB, then release an 80GB as well. Do they think the multiple of 20 they slap on the box has some astounding psychological affect on buyers or what? No one cares about 20GB either way, especially when you can put in any size HDD yourself. We’ll, if you bought a PS3 that is.
When the cost will be affected so minimally by the HDD compared to the BD player and Cell Processor, why are they bothering?
October 3rd, 2007 on 10:11 pm
I’m surprised that Kaz’n’Co didn’t decide to price the PS3 in the traditional same figure irrespective of currency trick..eg:
$499 = £499 = 499 Euro
They are so dumb and so desperate to actually make some money that they would have considered it as part of their pricing strategy.
October 4th, 2007 on 10:34 am
I’d buy one for 499 Yen (£2.11). That’s cheaper than a doorstop.
wvdszijf – what an Eastern European would say about Claudia
October 4th, 2007 on 12:33 pm
I’d probably buy one for 499 Yen. Just so I could get a couple of Blu Ray porn video, watch them once, for about 10 minutes (if I’m lucky) then unplug the PS3 and go back to using the power socket for my 360/Wii controller charger.
October 4th, 2007 on 1:23 pm
Any word on Tekken yet?
October 4th, 2007 on 3:57 pm
Console Wars: Round 7
More SKUs than CPUs
October 4th, 2007 on 11:47 pm
cunzy11> …shit
October 5th, 2007 on 4:54 pm
Good. Because the last I saw of it it was still the Lego men poor piece of pish hyped way too much in the 90s crappyness but with lots of sweat on it.