Europe got the 40gb really quickly...Funny how that is really, you get the short end of the stick quick but the good stuff you wait for a year...

Japan gets the new model in October? Not much to say really.

Well, I'm not impressed by different models, especially if it means removing features. It also makes Sony look like they don't clearly know what they're doing.

At the end of the day, unfortunately, it's not about what we want, it's about what makes them money. Unfortunately, too, people who buy them care more about quantity and less about quality. This is what you end up with - cheap, basic, low-end models.

I think, if you're going to get an ASDA Smart-price PS3, you might as well have bough an XBox 360 instead - and if you already had an XBox 360, put this money towards a better TV, or a few years' worth of Live.

Compromising on how good your PS3 is, is analogous to telling a plastic surgeon that you want the good aspects of being a man, and the good aspects of being a woman, and coming out the operation with half-sized breasts and a half-sized penis - that's what you get for paying half price for the operation.

But then some suckers actually believe they got good value.

Sony originally said they didnt want to confuse their customers with different sku's which was kinda an attacking comment at Microsoft's decision to do just that.

However its Sony who has released the most Sku's...and removed features...

Sony have concentrated all their efforts on blu-ray and recently have said now its about the games sheesh.

Looking at the release list for PS3 games there just isnt anything exclusive everything is constantly delayed!

I tell you what is a bargain Eye of judgement in the GAME sale for £39.98.