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HD-Less PS3?

Posted by Zonk on from the because-no-hd-really-failed-them-last-time dept.

GamesIndustry.biz has the story that, for the time being, Sony is planning on releasing their next generation console without a hard drive bundled into the package. From the article: "However the company has never said that a hard disk would be bundled with the unit at launch, and Chatani's comments this month seem to suggest it's erring toward not including one - and perhaps offering the peripheral optionally in the same way it currently sells Memory Card units separately from PlayStation 2."

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  1. Re:That's fine. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The other posters missed your point about the memory card, I think. Yes, you can use the HD to store gamesaves, but in 99.9% of the cases, you can't just save to the HDD directly. You have to use the memory card, and then later come back and swap the saves over (which also means you can't load from the HD either). There are a few HDD-aware titles in Japan that will cache to the HD and/or recognize it as a place to save/load memory card files, but not nearly as many as there should have been.