now that they are no longer made people who find one pay lots of money for it the 60 gb sounds like the perfect system so why not sony make more of them an make a big profit to lower costs?
it would cost to much to do so and they are already losing a lot of money anyway
February 25th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
That’s a good idea.
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February 25th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
it cost more and its more cheaper buy a ps3 and a 40GB ps3
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February 25th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
Because it costs too much and they would lose a lot of money making more of them because they have an Emotion Chip. Sony doesn’t make this anymore, also because they lost a whole lot of money. It costs a lot more money to make a PS3 with the PS2 GPU and CPU. It costed $800 to make a 60gb PS3.
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February 25th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
they cost a lot of money to make for sony to make them and sell them for 600 was a big loss
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February 25th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Because Sony is STUPID
Why make 80GB with no backwards comp. for 399 and not just make a 60GB w/ backwards comp. for the same price?
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February 25th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
it would cost to much to do so and they are already losing a lot of money anyway
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February 25th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
Because it costed over $800 to make each PS3 that had the PS2 GPU and CPU in it. Sony lost a lot of money. So, you would be expected to pay a lot more than that if they were going to resell them.
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February 25th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Honestly, it didn’t cost Sony much to add the PS2 hardware backward compatibility to the 20GB and 60GB models – only $27 for both chips. That was actually one of the least expensive components of the console, even cheaper than the case/enclosure.
The fact is, Sony lost a lot of money on each PS3 sale with or without those chips. Since PS2s were still selling well even after the release of the PS3, Sony removed the backward compatibility in order to keep PS2 sales up rather than try to overtake it with the PS3. Let them sit on the market together.
Why would they do that? Simple: profit. Due to the money Sony was losing on the PS3, they wanted PS2 sales to stay up since they make absolutely ridiculous profits on each sale. Basically, it helps them cover their losses.
That’s the same reason why the 60GB model was far, far more common than the 20GB model. It’s not because the 20GB was unpopular, it’s because they lost about $65 more per sale.
As far as the USB ports and card reader go, I have no idea why the USB ports were dropped. They are cheap to add to the console. The card reader makes a bit more sense, I don’t think it was a very popular feature to begin with.
Since production costs have dropped a lot, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Sony worked backwards compatibility into the PS3 in late 2009/2010 as the PS2 nears the end of it’s 10 year life span. They might even put the 2 USB ports back.
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February 25th, 2010 at 10:41 pm
The 60GB hardware cost about $100 more per system to make. By removing it, they were able to drop the price of the system by $100, somewhat fixing the bigger compaint about the price being way too high.
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