Dear 'P'ony
Get a clue,your anti consumer actions and PR lies have made the PS3 a elitists system that even half of the elites wont touch because your believing your own hype.

Simple plan to solve all PS3 issues

1.Stop making the Low end system its bleeding cash and saturating the market.

2.DO NOT TOUCH THE PS2 HARDWARE,Unless you plan on FULLY SUPPORTING EMULATION,then from there you can make it run PSP games for the price of 60$ off your store as a downlaod or free if you can verify you have a PSP(PS3 scans for PSP and checks frimware).

2.Lower the High end price to 450 and leave it their for the next 3 years.

4.Add frimware patches to make the PS2 hardware better

5.Create a premium online system
Limit free accounts to 3GB bandwidth a week,points and bought items do not effect the weekly bandwidth limit.

Premium accounts can come in flavors bu they offer
Free points monthly points to spend
Other freebies
Unlimited MP or even 12GB weekly limited play for low level accounts

Even copying Live would be a start
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I'll leave with this,if you lower the spec on the PS3 make a incomplete gaming system keep the prices high or ignore what the consumer wants you will fail and repeat the mistakes of sega.

P.S:Stop believing your own hype.