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Sony has confirmed to Eurogamer.net following earlier reports that the 80GB PlayStation 3 will be launching in Europe shortly.

SCEE president David Reeves confirmed the console will go on sale at GBP 299 / EUR 399 on
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SilPho - 540 days 4 hours ago
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Makes sense, it's almost impossible to find a PS3 for sale at the moment. It's actually easier to find a Wii if you can believe that.

Shame there's no BC, but at least people can get the DualShock.
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B-Rein - 540 days 3 hours ago
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yeh its high on demand in game.co.uk, a uk retailer a frind of mine tried to get 1, but he had some trouble.
I have 60 gig model but i upgaraded to (seagate) 160 gb for only £20 that $40 in american money unlike xbox 360 paying plippin £70 for 20 gb.
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fermcr - 540 days 3 hours ago
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Are you from Europe? Where i live (Portugal) you can find a PS3 anywhere. Even in the supermarkets you find PS3 for sale (but it is expensive 399 Euro). What you cannot find is a Xbox360 Arcade nowhere (195 Euro, i am looking for one). When the PS3 price becomes 200-250 Euro... then i will buy one. Until then, no thanks.
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SilPho - 540 days 2 hours ago
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Yeah, I'm in the UK. Amazon, Gameplay and Play are sold out online and the last Game store I went in to didn't have any either. I thought it was a bit strange.

It's not impossible to find them obviously, HMV have a few, but generally they're rarer than they have been.
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kwicksandz - 540 days 1 hour ago
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1.4 - No shortages here
I live in Australia and the ps3 is $749 for the 40gb no ds3 no bc mgs4 bundle. hope this 80gb model drops the price closer to $500
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TheFreak - 540 days ago
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1.5 - ps3 sold out
Im from Norway and almost every store is sold out
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Tomdc - 540 days ago
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japan gets it cheaper than UK...

America gets it cheaper than UK...

The rest of Europe gets it cheaper than UK...

Us brits feelin the love once more!

I think we finally have our reason to switch to the euro...
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EnglishPatriot - 539 days 21 hours ago
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"I think we finally have our reason to switch to the euro..."

The Euro can get fvcked.
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AlienGorilla - 539 days 18 hours ago
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I'm from America. I went to a Wal-Mart the other day and they didn't have any PS3's so America is sold out too.

Man, CRAZY Demand,
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Arsenal4Ever - 540 days 3 hours ago
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So UK is still paying $600 for a PS3.

J/K

Anyways yeah for an extra 40GB free it's a good deal and it can be upgraded at any time.

I think Next-gen Sony will stick with a high-end model like the 60GB model.
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Lumbo - 540 days 2 hours ago
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I am pretty sure that it will not have PS2 BC, PS1 BC is done via software emulation anyways
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SilPho - 540 days 1 hour ago
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As far as I know, all PS3 models support PS1 backwards compatibility (hence why they are on the store) but only some models have PS2 support. The EU 60GB does, but neither the 40GB nor the upcoming 80GB do.

Sony may have stated officially that the 80GB doesn't, but I don't know for sure. I would expect it to be the same as the 40, but with the DS3
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scoobysnacks - 540 days 1 hour ago
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was thinking the same thing about BC, as a friend of mine wants to get a PS3 in the next few months. He wants the BC like my 60gb PS3 (now upgraded to 250gb for £60). Didn't the 80gb version have BC to begin with, and Sony only dropping the BC on the 40gb version? I'm not sure on that one.

To be honest, the BC seemed important to begin with, but i've rarely used that feature on my PS3 more than about half a dozen times, too many PS3 games to complete. And when places like Tesco occasionally do offers on slimline PS2's for like £50, why not just get a PS2 for your old games?
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Bestgameever - 540 days ago
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Heres to still hoping they bring a ps2 BC software update for the 40gb / new 80gb ps3's :P - Read somewhere once that sony were "looking into it"
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You see, this is stupid on Sony's part because anyone who knows about this now wont buy an PS3 until they can get a better deal.
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agent864 - 540 days ago
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5 - thank you Europe
for subsidizing that $399 US price ! It it were this cheap in Europe you'd pay 250 Euro / £199

... the US price doesn't include sales tax tho. Usually the quoted price in UK / Europe includes the VAT doesn't it?
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mistertwoturbo - 539 days 23 hours ago
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How could some of you guys honestly complain about this? They're giving double the amount of storage space and a dualshock 3 for the same price as the current 40gb in the U.S. Gone are the days of the normal SIXAXIS.

Sure there's no B/C. But the value has still gone up. Sony seems truely content is phasing out the PS2 support slowly. Putting no B/C is one way of saving money on the hardware, plus phase out the ps2 in the long run.
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