However bad not having backward compatability is, Sony are probably making the best games run on ps3, so unless you were all planning to play on The Bible Game, or Devil May Cry 2, who cares? But if it only plays crappy games this will be annoying. Also, the delay, in some ways, is good, like Motorstorm, for people in ***/ America it was strictly single player only due a rushed finish on the game, but us in UK/ Aus get full split-screen AND superb online, and we have a much better luanch line-up, with games like: Resistance, Motorstorm, The Darkness(I think) and, most importantly, F.E.A.R. Plus any problems with teh US/ *** software will have been fixed, so it isnt all that bad, except for impatient cheap-skates who can't afford/ too impatient to buy it, trust me, in 6months, a year tops, ps3 will rule!