PS3 Backwards Compatability

[Lord-Of-Darkness]

So I'm looking into selling my 360 and putting the cash towards a PS3. But after looking into I've found that the new 80GB PS3s do not have the PS2 emulator.

I was quite looking forward to playing some old PS2 games, and picking them up cheap.

Can any one tell me why they took it out?

And in addition to that, would it be hard to get hold of a 60GB model now? And how much would I pay for it?