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Originally Posted by winpitt
What that means is that since it's likely that a very large percentage of the PS3s sold will be of the lower cost model
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That's a bolder assumption than you might realize. It sure wasn't the case with the 360 between it's two models. The early adopting crowd, which will be the ones camping outside of the brick and mortar stores on Nov. 17th and the ones paying whatever retailers want for bundles, are going to be gunning for the $600 system.
Beyond that- it doesn't appear that we're going to see much support for the ICT constraint from any of the studios for a good while. The situation is too delicate right now- and I think, (or maybe I just hope...
) that they realize they can't cut off half of their potential target audience by rendering their displays obselete.
Beyond that- we know that only the $600 model will have an HDMI jack, but do we know for sure yet that it will
not be possible for the $500 model of the PS3 to be upgraded with a breakout cable? Do we know if it's going to use an A/V multi-out cable like the 360 does? If so, I would think that an HDMI cable as a seperate purchase would be something that Sony would be interested in doing. MS will be doing this very thing for the 360 when the HD-DVD drive comes out. We know how these companies love thier accessories.