It also has SACD support, and the BC is hardware, not this BS emulation of later ones.its because everybody who has a 60 gb ps3 feels its worth more. it is rare, but the only factor is fully backwards compatible, which at this point, ps1 and ps2 games are pretty much obsolete, and not worth anything. when ps3 came out, it was sick, cuz the original release titles sucked, but now, nobody cares