It's official: Sony hates Europe

Actually, that's not entirely true. Sony hates the entire world, apart from North America and Japan.

I'm sure you may well have heard of its upcoming console, the PlayStation3. It's the follow-up to the PS2, which is arguably the most successful console ever. But, guess what? As well as having to pay more than Americans for the console, we're now getting a stripped-down version that will only be able to play a "limited" amount of PS2 games, rather than all of them.

This is because Sony are taking out a processor chip that was used for playing these old games in order to cut costs. But since the PS3 is costing Sony $200 per unit (that's right, they're making a loss), none of this cost-cutting will make it any cheaper for us. So, to summarise:

• we're getting the PS3 5 months later
• for £100 more
• and able to play less PS2 games than the US version
  

Anyone still planning on getting one?

Story from Kotaku.