Quote: The President of SCEE, David Reeves, recently told GamesIndustry.biz in an interview that the 60Gb version of the PlayStation 3 is being taken off the market in the US, only a week after Sony revealed a $100 price cut on that particular model. Apparently, although the price cut has supposedly doubled sales for the console-making mega-corporation it won't be staying as long as everyone thought and, once the 60Gb version is sold-out then Sony will not restock it for sale in the USA. Instead, the 60Gb line will be replaced with the 80Gb model which will retail at the original price of $599. "All they're doing is taking their stock in trade that they've got at the moment of the 60GB model, marking the price down and it will all be gone by the end of July."

Quote: It was very nice of Sony to drop the price of the PS3 in America. Well, it was nice for Americans anyway, though European gamers have been left still waiting for an announcement of what price cut they can expect as Sony has previously refused to comment. Well, now the silence has been lifted, though the news isn't good. Not good at all. The BBC broke to story earlier, barely managing to keep the usual stiff upper lip or hide the tears as they told the world that they will be no price cut for Europe on the PlayStation 3. At all. Instead, Sony is packaging up a 'Started Bundle'; "In Europe gamers will get a "starter pack" at an unchanged price of £425 for the 60GB machine, with two games and two controllers included." So, fair enough... kind of. We get a little bit more bang for our buck, though the amount of buck is utterly unchanged. After all, hardcore gamers will still be able to pick up the 80Gb version of the PS3 to fulfill their fanboy needs, won't they? Nope, they won't - Sony has also announced that they will not be releasing the improved 80Gb version of the PS3 in Europe at all either. Great, thanks Sony. So, all Europe gets is the oldest version of the PS3 which comes packaged with two games and two controllers which will, very soon, be out of date also when the force-feedback SixAxis is introduced.

60GB PS3 to be Discontinued
No Euro Price drop

Damm Sony. You suck.