This morning, Sony officially announced the release of the 40GB Playstation 3 in the United States, and a price drop for the 80GB Playstation 3. The 80GB PS3 drops down to $499 from the previous price of $599 -- which it was introduced at in early August of this year.
The new $399 40GB PS3 includes a bevy of stripped down features such as no memory card reader, two USB ports instead of four, and no backwards compatibility with PS2 games, and includes a Blu-Ray version of Spider-Man 3. The obvious angle here is that Sony is attempting to market this as a movie player rather than a video game system (as everyone knows how unpopular of a game system the PS3 is, but is apparently unaware of how bad a movie Spider-Man 3 is)
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