Just found
this article which makes for pretty dire reading for anyone preparing to buy a PS3 in Europe.
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Man, this is just getting ludicrous.
Not only are European PS3 buyers getting gouged in pricing terms - paying as much as 40% more for the console than our brethren overseas - but it turns out that European consoles are actually going to have less functionality, too.
How can this be? Well, in a bid to cut the cost of making the PS3, the hardware chips that enable PS2 backwards compatibility are being stripped out.
Stripped out.
The chips will be replaced with software emulation, with the result that backwards compatibility for European consoles will be, according to Sony, significantly less.
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And people wonder why the PS3 hasn't met expectations. Let's hope it isn't true.