This is an article taken from http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/004082.html. It's about the death of the 20GB PS3. Enjoy!
-APer
By Matt Peckham
We knew it. They knew it. It was only a matter of time before Sony opted to axe its $499 "entry level" boat anchor. Okay, granted a really super-powerful boat anchor I wouldn't personally mind stuffing in my tiny little train wreck of an entertainment center, and that I'd never actually use to, you know, stabilize a sloop or something.But seriously, if you can drop $500 on a video game system, why not an extra hundred mazuma for bells and whistles?
Availability, to be sure, which for good or ill hasn't been one of the PS3's shortcomings. You want one, you got one, just pop out to the nearest retailer, bring your firstborn with for trade-in credit, etc.Curiously, while anecdotal evidence suggested the basic 20GB model hadstocking issues, GamePro reports the 60GB premium model was outselling its feebler sibling by 10-to-1.
I'll forever remember hunkering in my local Walmart's "footware" section for an Xbox 360 (I was lucky next to the poor fools braving arctic temperatures outside the nearby Best Buy), debating with insanely devoted (or frighteningly deferential) parents the consumerist logic of waiting in line that long for anything. My prize? A 360"Core," a hundred bucks cheaper than its big brother, and about $150 more expensive once you'd tracked down all the gizmos and whatzits you needed to bring it up to par.
At least the basic model PS3 (rest its soul) came with a hard drive.
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