With the upcoming 2.0 player profile Sony finally gets to play its trump card: the PlayStation 3, which has clearly emerged as one of the best Blu-ray players on the market—and is likely to remain so for some time.

Blu-ray 2.0 is the profile of the future, requiring the two secondary decoders, 1GB of local storage for updates and content, and an Internet connection.

Most existing blu-ray players won’t be able to meet this specification with a simple firmware update.  This gives the PS3 a good lead for this spec, being the only player that supports it.

The 2.0 profile brings picture-in-picture and online functionality to Blu-ray discs; these movies will have “BD-Live” stickers on the case so you know certain features will require 2.0-compliant players

The PS3 continues to domainate the Xbox 360 in sales across Europe.  This has been the case since October 2007 and have sold a total of 5 million units.

However this number is still not enough to be the top selling console, wich is comfortabley held by the lower prices Wii

Sony has released a special edition Metal Gear Solid 4  PS3 console bundle which  will be available exclusively from Konami.com.  Other than the inclusion of a limited edition version of MGS4 the main differentiating factor will be the Gun Metal Gray coloured console.

An Aussie tech website has apparently been talking to a Sony insider, who revealed that a new version of the Playstation could be here in under 18 months.  However this next playstation would still be based on the same chipset in the Playstation 3 but would have a different “drive bay and attachment area” and additional media center like software.  So it wouldn’t be a real next generation Playstation 4 but just a refresh of the PS3.

Sony denided the rumours as expected, but an updated PS3 down the track is not out of the question