Today has been a clusterfuck. There’s no other way to put it. Sony has some explaining to do, because what they’re come up with doesn’t work too well.

If you haven’t heard, earlier in day, SCEE President David Reeves told GamesIndustry.biz that once the current stock of 60GB PS3’s sells out in America, they’ll be gone forever. Vamoose. No more. To further confirm this issue, a Norwegian site posted a video of Kaz Hirai stating the same thing. Here’s a transcript of what he says (around 1:50 in the video):

Well, again, just from a hardware perspective, the 499 dollar price adjustment that we did for the 60 GB version, for the American market, uh, we’re no longer in production for that product, so uh once that product is gone from the retailer shelves, then we’re back to the $599 SKU only, so it’s not like we have a two price strategy here in the US market. We found out very early on, you know, consumers react mostly to just having one SKU as opposed to two.

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