PS3 to come with HDD standard

bingham67 · 21 Mar 2006 at 19:49

PS3 to come with 60gb HDD standard

At last week's PlayStation Business Briefing in Japan, Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi revealed that the PlayStation 3 would have a 2.5-inch, Linux-based, 60GB hard drive. He also made it clear that the hard drive will be required, as Sony is telling developers to create PS3 games that will run on a console with an HDD. "We view the hard drive to be mandatory for the PS3," he said.

more here

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6146269.html

Nice 60gb looks like it required aswell as their telling dveleopers to use the hard drive.

JUMPURS · 21 Mar 2006 at 20:17

good show

awaits first person to say 'oh sony hype i'll believe it when i see it'

Jabbs · 21 Mar 2006 at 20:18

'oh sony hype i'll believe it when i see it'

sorry couldn't resist. /me goes back too his padded cell

JUMPURS · 21 Mar 2006 at 20:24

Jabbs said:
'oh sony hype i'll believe it when i see it'

sorry couldn't resist. /me goes back too his padded cell

FeFiDoh · 21 Mar 2006 at 20:31

heh i read on av forums MS are releasing a 60gb one too :eek:

no coincidence i imagine

Energize · 21 Mar 2006 at 20:32

At least we won't have the same fiasco like we did for the 360.

DaveyD · 21 Mar 2006 at 20:34

There's still a lot of ifs and buts in that report really, as nothing 100% concrete is there, like the majority of the PS3 still being in limbo.

It would be a wise move for Sony to include the HDD as standard, but for some reason, the way the guy worded "We view the hard drive to be mandatory for the PS3," he said., you turn that into "We view the PS2 memory cards to be mandatory for the PS3", as although you could play everything without the cards, it was pretty damn pointless when you couldn't save or anything.

Will have to wait and see I guess.

ElRazur · 21 Mar 2006 at 21:06

Finally my holdin on and not buying 360 is starting to pay off.

VIRII · 21 Mar 2006 at 21:45

Why would we need a 60gb for the 360? Is there going to be that much downloadable content?

I saw a device called Xbox 360 backup manufacturered by Datel, I assumed it allowed you to back up your HDD to your PC but can't find description for it.

Wyrdo · 21 Mar 2006 at 21:54

Good stuff, I'm glad they're making it mandatory.

Baine · 21 Mar 2006 at 22:56

Energize said:
At least we won't have the same fiasco like we did for the 360.

What fiasco? if people didnt bother to order the full pack in time then its their fault really
Besides i cant see sony having a smooth launch worldwide they cant even manage it in one country PSP anyone lol

Energize · 22 Mar 2006 at 00:16

Baine said:
What fiasco? if people didnt bother to order the full pack in time then its their fault really
Besides i cant see sony having a smooth launch worldwide they cant even manage it in one country PSP anyone lol

The fiasco was that there was a massive shortage and there were loads of core consoles which never sold when they could have been if m$ had just released one version of the 360 and the people who did buy the core one had to spend ages looking for a hard drive to buy because the core version of the 360 was nothing without it, the console is still out of stock now.

FeFiDoh · 22 Mar 2006 at 00:29

well people had the choice? Like said above.

If people couldnt afford the hard drive then they could get a memory card cheaper. And shortages are nothing new so it was bound to happen.

Ultra_Extreme · 22 Mar 2006 at 00:34

360 comes with a HDD as standard tho too. its not having it thats optional.

Energize · 22 Mar 2006 at 00:35

R5Rich said:
well people had the choice? Like said above.

If people couldnt afford the hard drive then they could get a memory card cheaper. And shortages are nothing new so it was bound to happen.

They didnt have the choice because there werent enough premium consoles, with a fair bit of that shortage being attributted to having loads of useless core consoles made. A memory card isnt the same as the hard drive, you cant download patches, demos, videos, rip music to it, and it doesnt speed up the games like a hdd does. Yes the shortage was bound to happen but it could have been less severe if microsoft hadnt made the core consoles.

Doug · 22 Mar 2006 at 00:36

VIRII said:
Why would we need a 60gb for the 360? Is there going to be that much downloadable content?

tbh, the only reason I'd get a HDD is for downloading demos and arcade games. Space is nice, but, at 500-1100Mb per demo, 30-60Mb for arcade titles, it'd take a while to fill

VIRII said:
I saw a device called Xbox 360 backup manufacturered by Datel, I assumed it allowed you to back up your HDD to your PC but can't find description for it.

It's for saving images of the memory units. Handy, but it'd be better if you could copy individual savegames and whatnot.

FeFiDoh · 22 Mar 2006 at 00:43

the mem card didnt stop people from playing tho did it? I mean yes it **** of came with a HDD but it gave people options if they cudnt afford to pay that much yet they could still buy a memory card and save all their games. At least a mem card is better than nothing.

Zico · 22 Mar 2006 at 00:55

Energize said:
..there were loads of core consoles which never sold...

That's not right at all. On release both the Premium and Core packs were sold out. It was still difficult to obtain a 360 in either pack until very recently (still is in some parts of the US).

The choice of making 2 SKU's perhaps might not have been the right choice in your opinion, but if Microsoft managed to get x number of Core 360's in people's homes where they couldn't quite afford the Premium price, then it worked. People were miffed at the state of the shortage of either packs which made people see the Core pack as a waste of time.

As Microsoft has stated, the reason for the Core was to gain in the casual gamers market. There will of course have been many buyers who wanted/could afford a Premium pack that had to settle for a Core pack on release, but nobody forced them to buy a Core pack and pay for the extra accessories ontop.

If you look at most electronic devices, there several devices priced and built for various buyers. The idea is to get those who can't afford or don't require/want high end models intially. Once those new customers have settled in, they will (hopefully) buy again within the same brand and perhaps go for a higher model in the future.

Ultra_Extreme · 22 Mar 2006 at 01:15

Zico said:
.........but nobody forced them to buy a Core pack and pay for the extra accessories ontop.

technically MS did. Unless you truly count 'neither' as a satisfactory choice.

but otherwise i agree wholly

Zico · 22 Mar 2006 at 01:29

Ultra_Extreme said:
technically MS did. Unless you truly count 'neither' as a satisfactory choice.

but otherwise i agree wholly

I don't really count "technically" as a reason either. It's not been that long since release and the Premium pack is now readily available. It's the cosumer alone that is responsible for the purchase. There are still people on these very forums that are holding out for a 360.

I think that the only reason that people see the 2 SKU's as a failure is purely because of the very limited intial supply.

On a similar point of SKU's, Nintendo have released several versions of the Gameboy, Gameboy Advance and now the DS. It's not the same as Microsoft and the 360 no, but Nintendo have not forced any of it's customers to buy the first release, nor do they force them to go out and buy the new hardware revision (none of the software is restricted to any newer revisions).

It's the way of the electronic's market. It's the way of many markets and will always be that way.