An unnecessary comment for another unncesessary comment. A console price drop, no matter Wii/360/ or PS3 deserves the same amount of hype (if not more) than a game. But even then, I haven't seen anyone hyping this...they're just reporting various confirmations.

False, inaccurate, wishful thinking. There will be no BC in the 40GB ps3.

See link. This is a forum full of industry insiders (1up and EGM editors are members of this forum; Greg Kasavin sometimes posts here).

http://www.neogaf.com/forum...

Sorry to disapoint you but that is incorrect. PS3 B/c comes via software so unless the 40GB gets different firmware updates to the other versions, the 40GB will have B/c since it runs games off the cell not the EE like the orginal NTSC models did.

Read the fvcking thread i posted, they explain it. Graphics synthesizer....aka GS...that's all i'm going to say. if ur too lazy to read and educate urself then i don't give a sh!t, but ur wrong.

EE is the fvcking ps2's cpu, GS is the fvcking ps2's gpu. EE is emulated by software on 80gb ps3, but the GS is still fvcking there.

i'm mad b/c dumb fvckers like urself are too damn lazy to find out the actual truth. its only when someone shoves it down ur throat that u understand.

Sorry about the outburst but its a very common misconception for people to think 80gb BC is total software emulation. A dude from the thread I posted had the same misconception:

Originally Posted by Synless:
I thought that all the newer ps3's had no BC HW anyways, I thought it was all emulated so how wouldn't the 40 have it if it has a harddrive?

Reply:

jesus... you are 1000000th to think so and you are wrong. Can you at least read few pages back before posting that comment?

i understand ur point but that doesn't mean its true. nothing has been confirmed..............yet

Never underestimate what the Japan devs can do with the software emulation.

Don't trust everything you read in a forum. Most of what that forum claims on how th ps3 operates is false. You want to learn more abnout how the EE/GS works and the new emulation. read this link: http://techon.nikkeibp.co.j...
**** If it ask you to install the japanese font just hit cancel a few times it will load in english ****

The article in case you dont want to use the link:
"Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) has announced that the EE+GS chip, an LSI chip provided to support backwards compatibility with :PlayStation 2 (PS 2), would be excluded from the PlayStation 3 (PS3) console slated for launch in Europe on March 23, 2007. Instead, the operation of PS2 will be emulated by a combination of new graphics LSI chip and software.

The PS3 console available in Japan and the US is equipped with EE+GS chip which is PS2's core LSI chip composed of Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesizer integrated onto a single chip. Instead of the EE+GS chip which will be excluded from the European version of the console, SCE will provide a new graphics LSI chip that can replace the functions performed by Graphics Synthesizer. The functions of Emotion Engine will be emulated by software based on Cell Broadband Engine. With the adoption of the new specifications, the company has succeeded in reducing the LSI chip size and the component cost. It plans to slash the component cost of the consoles sold in Japan and the US as well in the same way in the future."

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I will be laughing SO HARD at you girls when the 40gb will have no ps2 BC.

see link, sony themselves says the euro ps3 has the GS.

http://www.pcmag.com/articl...

and these people on this forum, oh yeah, i almost forgot to tell you, some of them have actually seen the motherboard of the 80gb ps3 and have seen the GS themselves.

so many sony girls in here are in so much denial. we will see in a few days how wrong you girls are. and again, i will be laughing so hard in your face.

(and if I'm wrong you can laugh in my face, but i won't be wrong).

So just deal with it. Now there really are no games for the PS3

http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News...