Rumor: 80GB PS3 Being Discontinued?
By Jonathan on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 at 3:32 PM PST In Game Companies, Game Consoles, Gamer Life, Games Industry, Hardware, Sony, Sony
An internal memo circulating through Best Buy stores has surfaced indicating that the 80GB model of the PS3 may soon be discontinued. The full text of the memo reads:
“The 80GB version of the PS3 is going closeout and won’t be replaced at this time. It will come off the planogram on Jan. 28. The 60GB version should already be gone from stores. Only the 40GB version of PS3 will be sold in Best Buy stores at this time. This means that there currently isn’t a version that is PS2 compatible.
At this time, Sony hasn’t made any announcements about new products.”
Combine this memo with other rumors about a lower priced PS3 model and a recent FCC filing for a white PS3, and I think it’s safe to assume a new model will be announced soon by Sony. So in a few days there will only be one version of Sony’s system readily available. On the plus side, we may see some 80GB PS3s go on sale pretty soon.
Via PS3 Fanboy
There is other stores cept best buy u know?
Still glad i got my 60 gig when it was available…
Don’t have one and still don’t want one……I’m completely happy with me Wii60 thank you.
Confirmed that Sony is discontinuing the 80GB model. My friend’s brother (we’re all gamers) works at Sony and he told us about it today.
Yeah im glad my 60gb is still “kickin’” over a year later
im glad i got my 80 GB before it was discontinued
I went to best buy to buy the 80GB version but I found out it was discontinued so I bought the 40GB with Call of Duty 4 n it’s still a good deal but I wished I would have bought the 80GB ’cause I wanted backwards compability