PS3 to come with HDD standard

JUMPURS · 22 Mar 2006 at 06:45

yet another PS3 threat infected with the xbox 360 virus. think 60% of this thread goes on aout the 360 ignoring the PS3 **sigh**

MrMagoo · 22 Mar 2006 at 06:58

If the PS3 gets any games worth having for it I will buy it.

The PS2 only had 3 games that made me want it over the years and they were the GT series (better than PGR overall as PGR 1 was great, PGR2 and PGR3 went so wrong with kudos and the rubbish cone challenges etc - it's about racing not all that crap!), Devil May Cry and the Metal Gear Solid Games.

I never bought a PS2 due to this, as I didnt think those 3 games (series) were worthy of buying a PS2.

As soon as the PS3 has some games that make it worth buying, I will

Nismo · 22 Mar 2006 at 07:22

MrMagoo said:
(better than PGR overall as PGR 1 was great, PGR2 and PGR3 went so wrong with kudos and the rubbish cone challenges etc - it's about racing not all that crap!),

Qué?

I dont see how PGR can be great, and 2&3 not when they all follow in the same vein.

Remember the series started with MSR, and the whole point of it all revolves around the kudos system. Seems you are kind of missing the point of the game.

Anyway, PS3. Seems good news about the HDD. No way I can say if I will buy one yet though until either final hardware or 'proper' games in development are first spotted.

dirtydog · 22 Mar 2006 at 07:29

MrMagoo said:
The PS2 only had 3 games that made me want it over the years and they were the GT series (better than PGR overall as PGR 1 was great, PGR2 and PGR3 went so wrong with kudos and the rubbish cone challenges etc - it's about racing not all that crap!),

Are you sure you've played all the PGR games?

They all had cone challenges and kudos, right since MSR on the Dreamcast in fact. I think PGR2 improved on the kudos system a lot over PGR1.

btw, on topic, I hope the PS3 does indeed have an in-built HDD as standard, as the Xbox does. MS were onto a good thing with the Xbox so why they dropped it (as standard) for the 360 puzzles and disappoints me.

edit - hopefully this means that the PS3 will support custom soundtracks as MS consoles do.

ElRazur · 22 Mar 2006 at 07:40

JUMPURS said:
yet another PS3 threat infected with the xbox 360 virus. think 60% of this thread goes on aout the 360 ignoring the PS3 **sigh**

Same thing i was thinking.

Wyrdo · 22 Mar 2006 at 08:20

JUMPURS said:
yet another PS3 threat infected with the xbox 360 virus. think 60% of this thread goes on aout the 360 ignoring the PS3 **sigh**

It's a valid discussion though. You can't expect to have a PS3 thread and not have mention of the 360.

What do they mean by 'Linux based'? Is the PS3 going to be running some kind of Linux distro?

Nismo · 22 Mar 2006 at 08:41

wyrdo said:
What do they mean by 'Linux based'? Is the PS3 going to be running some kind of Linux distro?

Wouldnt be surprised, there was a distro for use with the PS2 HDD wasn't there?

VIRII · 22 Mar 2006 at 08:46

wyrdo said:
It's a valid discussion though. You can't expect to have a PS3 thread and not have mention of the 360.

What do they mean by 'Linux based'? Is the PS3 going to be running some kind of Linux distro?

That would be a definite selling point to me.

FeFiDoh · 22 Mar 2006 at 11:02

yeah its suppose to be running some sort of linux on it not really sure what tho read it a few days ago.

NokkonWud · 22 Mar 2006 at 12:16

R5Rich said:
heh i read on av forums MS are releasing a 60gb one too no coincidence i imagine

If I was MS I'd release a 65gb one or something, just to be petty

.

MrMagoo · 22 Mar 2006 at 13:00

I was quite drunk, and hadn't been to bed when I posted so ignore what I typed

Zico · 22 Mar 2006 at 13:47

wyrdo said:
It's a valid discussion though. You can't expect to have a PS3 thread and not have mention of the 360.

It started with comparisons between the PS3 having a HDD as standard and the 360 being with or without a HDD.

Just because the PS3 will have a HDD as standard doesn't make it a better machine that the 360 though.

NokkonWud · 22 Mar 2006 at 14:20

Zico said:
Just because the PS3 will have a HDD as standard doesn't make it a better machine that the 360 though.

Didn't think anyone did say that?

FrankJH · 22 Mar 2006 at 15:24

In my opinion its very good news that the PS3 is coming as standard with a decent sized hdd

both the ps3 and the x360 are meant to be "media centre"'s for the living room - yeah I know there isnt that much content ( hidef anyway) around at the moment but in the life of these units ( 4+ years) there will be huge amounts to "consume" - this isnt even counting the amount of music most people have collections of

This is before you consider that a £40 will buy a half decent 120Gb unit ( no one is forcing either company to use physically smaller hdd units) so from MS's or Sony's point of view even 60GB drives should be EOL and cheap as chips to buy in bulk - and to charge £60 for a 20Gb unit is scandelous

I also am of the view that MS should have been able to make availabel more hdd for core packs originally, nothing particularly challanging about producing removable hdd's after all ( compared to the machines themselves) and they must be raking in the profits from this inparticular compared to street price they are charging

Phil99 · 22 Mar 2006 at 15:51

Linux-based, 60GB hard drive

I imagine they just mean the file system, though it would be nice if it had a usable Linux distro as standard...not that I can see any use for a desktop on a console...maybe a media front end running on it?

Great news it's coming with a reasonable size HDD bundled (hopefully that wont change) as it allows the developers more freedom as they don't have to consider if all their user base has one etc.