Twas pretty sweet, had the guys from uni over, was a great night! But most of all scored a PS3! Sweet!!!! lol but its the reduced version, so no PS2 compatibility! oh well at least I didnt have to buy it
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That is one sweet score, welcome and enjoy the world of PS3!
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Very nice BD present. Enjoy, and Happy Birthday too!

Shame is was the cutdown PS3, but the only thing really missing is the PS2 support. You can easily upgrade the HD to a bigger one as and when you need, and could plug a USB2 hub in to gain more ports it needed, and a memory card reader to get that support back.
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That's pretty cool, congrats!

About the lost compatibility, I wonder does that mean the PS1 compatibility is lost as well? Because you can buy and download several PS1 games from the store, and just having them available there and not being able to use them I guess would be kind of shoving it in your face, which would be a little stupid.
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on a related note, I was in Tesco the other day and noticed that had the 60GB PS3 for sale at only £30 more than other stores are selling the new cut down 40GB version. I assumed it was the older fully featured one due to it being 60GB. So at that price it's worth grabbing one if you see one. I'm tempted and might if I give in next time I'm shopping!
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Teho: The new cut down PS3 still does PS1 games. They were 100% done in software. The PS2 games were mostly software emulated although did use a PS2 GPU chip inside the console.
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I thought that all European PS3s didn't have the PS2 GPU though (even the older version)? I read that was only the US/Jap versions and the EU version was completely emulation of PS2 in software.
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Hello all,

Sounds like you had a pretty cool birthday, mine is coming up next and though I have been offered a few surprises it mostly up to myself to make it a good experience.

I myself was also considering getting one of those new PS3s but the employee of the store where I asked about it discouraged me, bringing up the same subjects mentioned in this thread.

On the moment I still have my old PS2 and I wonder if it would be such a loss if I would get this model instead of a more expensive PS3 in time.

Well another deciding factor on the moment are the games available at the moment, to be honest I haven't seen any games yet I really must play.
I am interested in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and Resident Evil 5 but I would also like to play some original new games.

It would be great if a sequel to Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross was released on the PS3, that would make it a must buy for me.
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I don't think there will be any further games in the Chrono series. The original creator said as much after finishing Chrono Cross. Although Hironobu Sakaguchi did remark that one of his most recent games, Blue Dragon on the Xbox 360, is an extension of Chrono Trigger, whatever that was meant to mean.
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Well it is definitely not the same universe so I think he probably meant the spirit of the game.
Still it is a shame as I would have liked to see another sequel to Chrono.
There is a fan game in the works but of course that is never 'canon'.
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