New PS3 80GB model including MotorStorm announced for $599 in August. Current PS3 60GB model price drop official to $499 today

9 July 2007

Posted by:Ferry

Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) announced a new 80GB model of its PlayStation 3. Beginning in August, the new PS3 model will be available in North America for a suggested retail price of US$599/$659 CND and will be sold with the popular online-enabled racing game MotorStorm. In conjunction with this news, the company also announced that effective immediately, the current 60GB PS3 model will be available in North America for US$499/$549 CND, or $100 below the original launch price for that 60GB model and the same price as the now defunct 20GB model.

By featuring an expanded hard disk drive (HDD), the new 80GB PS3 is designed to appeal to the online gaming and entertainment enthusiast, providing ample storage space to download more games and other entertainment content from the PlayStation Network. There are currently more than 60 playable games and game-related downloads available through PlayStation Store, with expanded entertainment content coming soon. The new model features the million-selling game MotorStorm in the box, allowing up to 12 players to play online at one time, hitting the dirt in this visually-arresting, fast-paced racing title.

Update: The new 80GB PS3 model has everything that the 60GB model has EXCEPT backwards compatibility hardware. Instead the new model will use software emulation to play older Playstation & Playstation 2 titles, just like the Xbox 360. This means you can count on tons of games not working, with Sony adding more to the list. So this is definitely something to think about if you’re considering buying the 80GB SKU.

Thanks to Alan and Joe who sent this in.

Watch SCEA President & CEO Jack Tretton outline the details of the PS3 announcement:

That’s right, he just announced a new video download service that lets you download movies and TV shows to your PS3!

The real question is, how about a price drop for the rest of the world Sony?

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Reeteshinator back at home

Thats cool

But the BC of PS3 (the one without Emotion Engine) is pretty good. as 90% of the Psone games work and only around 100-200 of PS2 games dont work.

I remember seeing that news in here itself
SAEVEL

The 60gb wil still have the emotion engion(for a while). The reason for the taking out of it in the 80gb is so they will lose less money. Sony needs all the moey hay can get right now so im going to get one next week. =) cant wait
SAEVEL

The 60gb wil still have the emotion engion(for a while). The reason for the taking out of it in the 80gb is so they will lose less money. Sony needs all the money hay can get right now so im going to get one next week. =) cant wait
M1K3Y

What’s an “emotion engine”???
M1K3Y

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
joe

you dont really need to worry about games not working on the pse 80gb because you can get the 60 and upgrade the gb on thats what i done and now i have 120gb on my ps3, which is awesome and its just like having 80gb if not then better!! YEAH!
ian

buying the 60 and then swapping the hard drive… interesting idea.. are you saying the ps3 uses a standard sata or ide hard drive that you could swap out for size?
ian

buying the 60 and then swapping the hard drive… interesting idea.. are you saying the ps3 uses a standard sata or ide hard drive that you could swap out for any size?
http://victor.com gerardo

its BS sony should send me motorstorm because i got mine before the 80gb in february
http://victor.com gerardo

It’s bc because I got mine before the 80gb in february.