http://www.community-credit.com/cs/forums/3.aspxSeen something Geek-oriented that is newsworthy?enCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20917.1142)http://www.community-credit.com/cs/forums/thread/3818.aspxThu, 06 Dec 2007 20:27:26 GMTdc2d8ed1-db5f-43a8-9632-42f90caf747d:3818DavidSilverlight0http://www.community-credit.com/cs/forums/thread/3818.aspxhttp://www.community-credit.com/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=3&PostID=3818Sony makes some historic blunders. One of the biggest was making digital music players that wouldn't play MP3s , the most popular digital music format. Those devices played Sony's own ATRAC format, which the company killed a few months ago. Sony hasn't learned from its mistakes. Consider the PlayStation 3 , the too-expensive game console that hasn't become the hit the company wanted. Sony's finally selling a cheaper PS3 in the U.S., just in time for the holidays. It'll cost $400, but will have only 40 gigabytes of storage -- half that of the standard version, which is getting a price cut to $500 from $600. That's fine. Some people don't need more than 40 gigs anyway in a video game system. But get this: the cheap PS3 won't play games made for the PlayStation 2 . That feature is called backward compatibility, and it's a dealbreaker. A typical PlayStation 2 owner probably has a nice library of video games. The new PS3 won't play any of them. It's not that Sony doesn't know how to add backward...<A href="http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/archive/2007/10/18/sony-screws-up-again-with-new-ps3.aspx"> read more</A>