Let me guess-Sony wants people to BUY PS1 & 2 games online for the PS3 rather than allow them to play those same games from their library? If that is the case then I can understand their need to nickel and dime PS fans, but why shrink the HD? They can't be saving that much money from installing a 40g versus an 80g.
Also, are they canceling the features that the current 80g model has over the 40g, such as the wi-fi and all of that other jazz?
Why are they doing this?