Playstation 60GB

I finlly decided I would cough up and get a PS3. It's a lot of money, but unlike the general populace I know just how powerful this thing is, and not surprised it's a lot more than a Nintendo console since they just use cheap out of date technology.
Unfortunately, it turns out Sony have stopped supplying the more expensive 60GB version that has backwards compatibility with PS1 & PS2 games for the European (PAL) market. I can't bring myself to buy a 40GB version that has been "crippled" to make it a few pounds cheaper. I'm certainly not keeping a PS2 connected to my TV alongside a PS3, and there's NO WAY I am throwing away my PS2 games - they're far too good for that!
Sony, for heavens sake, backwards compatibility (as I understand it) is done in software on the PS3 so since you've coded it already, add it to the console! You do WANT to sell me one surely?

***UPDATE***

Just realised this post needs the following added:

I crumbled and bought the 40GB version. Turns out the 60GB was withdrawn from sale due to a rather embarrassingly high failure rate. I was concerned that the backwards compatibility was missing, and still am although I really don't understand what the problem is, and why backwards compatibility with the PS2 needed to be done through hardware. Here's what I think. The PS2 was powered by a 300MHz RISC processor (a single core). The PS3 is powered by the cell - a multi core (there are 7 cores) processor that runs at 3.2 GHz. Now I'm crap at mathematics, but if you could squeeze the miracles that the PS2 achieved with ONE 300MHz CPU, you really ought to be able to create a stable emulator if you have SEVEN 3.2 GHz CPU's available purely in software, or am I missing something? The sneaky suspicion of course is that Sony don't want me (as a PS3 owner) having access to a huge catalogue of cheap PS2 games.

As a footnote, Call of Duty 4 is without doubt the best FPS I've ever seen, but I can't play it because Activision/Infinity/Sony saw fit to not bother including mouse support. I angry as a hornet about that, and may well end up buying this.

GT5 Prologue is just so damn impressive and enjoyable I set up a new GT5 Blog just to talk about it.