The view that Sony wants to save the "sinking ship" I can not quite understand. The market, and thus the console are evolving, as is Sony on customer requests. Therefore, it is a natural process that the console slightly redesigned and, moreover, the price is drastically reduced. This is not only in the console sector so, even cars, sports equipment, technical products of all kinds, and much more. are also constantly improved and come as new variants on the market. And you really can not blame Sony, if you want to increase sales! And after all, Microsoft has confirmed this previously so practiced and X versions of its XBox 360 launched (they too are draufgekommen that HDMI is the future and have feared for their sales). With this new console you can get for a great price a top next-gen console, with small drawbacks, but still has reserves of strength for a number of years (one to see only the quality improvement of the PS2 games for years on away on). It is true to her you can now play any PS2 games more, but I'm sure that whoever really like PS2 games played, has additionally are anyway a PS2 at home. And the best part is that you get to a full-fledged Blu-ray player the same. I am of the opinion that Blu-Ray will prevail, because sales of the PS3 will now surely rise and thus at the same time the number of Blu-ray players in the private houses. It is not difficult to conclude then, that then of course, sales of Blu-ray movies will skyrocket. Especially when one buys an Xbox 360, you do not automatically have an HD DVD player, but is this drive only needs to buy separately! Still to be found on a Blu-ray disc much more data into place and sooner or later, good games will need this space! We should not forget the fact that there are 3 Controller Bereis the DualShock, combines the Sixaxis- and rumble feature, and gives that will come in the not too distant future to the market.