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Originally Posted by Gukophoto
My assumption is because the PS2 is still selling units nationwide and they are still selling units at around £80 a hit.
So by keeping the Backward compatibility in the 60gb version, they were killing their ps2 sales, not what they want to do.
It also cost them more to do it this way, so by stop selling the bigger more expensive version, people would still buy the PS2 (and hopefully in a couple of years, pay again to upgrade to the PS3..
My theory 
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Could be true that, but in todays world, making your new console backwards compatiable with your previous successful systems is a no-brainer, Nintendo made the Wii fully compatiable with all Gamecube games, and the 360 i think is fully backwards compatiable as well, so theres no excuse for Sony to make their 40GB version of the PS3 non-compatiable with PS2 and PS1 games (well thats my opinion anyway)