whoa, that was deep.

Hes right without the UK the Xbox would never had ,made it this far.

but the question is will the mark up of 200-400$ and the removal of the 50$ PS2 chip hurt them?

This seems to be a common thing with companies as of late. They embrace the new customers with open arms, but there is no respect or acknowledgment given to the loyal consumer that have been with them from the start. If it wasn’t for all of us that actually went out and bought a PS1 and PS2, there would be no PS3.

“The fact that they're going to get the best machine with the best software support, the most Network service and the firmware update."

What ever happened to customer loyalty? All companies seem to be focused on the almighty dollar and they will lie in any way they can to recruit new sheeple to follow them in their quest to become richer.

Unfocused
its uneeded,consumers are sheeple to be lead and lied to at the whim of the corporate horde,retuning a game was bad for them they slowly removed it and now its banned threw deals with their minions in retail,PC games are becoming the next in line to fall used PC games have been removed from all GS/EB chains,they treat the consumer as if it can be feed anything and be happy to pay for it,sadly this is the case on many levels,I will keep to my ways of "boyycot the horde" as best as I can they have shown not a care to do things to make it worth my hard to earned money.

Much like the music and flim mafia,the game industry is learning well how to keep double profits flowing into the biggest pubs while smaller devs get nothing for their works while the larger pubs eat up the remains the snake is eating itself and gettign dumber blinder and more hungry as it goes....gamedom is the new hollywood same as the old hollowood......branded,regurgitated and stagnating in its own IP/CP slow to nurture new things that could turely bring them a profit.

Nice PR Comments by Mr. Harrsion.

Translated into real English what he is saying is this.

"We at Sony, are now embracing Europe as we are screwed everywhere else. We realise that in the past Europe has always received our hardware and software later than anywere else. This is not going to change but we want you to know that by spending £400+ on a console that has been recently downgraded and uppriced you can now buy our overpriced software. In short we want to thank Europe for taking all our shit, accepting our delayed release schedules and most importantly for giving us a larger profit margain than other territories."

Europeans always get screwed with console & software releases, Sony are a prime culprit.