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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:If the memory is big enough by ZephyrXero · · Score: 2, Insightful

    By not including a harddrive built in, this is the problem they put themselves in. The industry has proven time and time again that if it's a peripheral and not built in or at least bundled it's not going to get used very much in actual games. This was the reasoning behind the dreamcast coming with a built in modem and the xbox coming with a built in ethernet and harddrive. MS seems to be screwing up in this dept too with the option of buying a system w/o a drive. I could see selling a "basic model" with a 10 gig and then let people buy bigger ones as needed, but to release (both Xbox360 and PS3) without one is going to discourage many developers from taking advantage of it. At least the first wave of launch Xbox360's will all have a harddrive included.

    The other question is what happened to the harddrive Nintendo damn near guarenteed us would be built into the Revolution? 512MB of flash memory does not sound like a harddrive to me... not unless youre running a 486 system or something :P

    I am very happy about the use of "standard" SD Flash cards instead of proprietary memory cards all around... Still, a harddrive should be cheaper than a flash memory card ($75 for a 1GB flash or $75 for an 80GB HD), so I don't even see why they're releasing them....

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  2. HD/HDD by goodenoughnickname · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Can we stick to the acronym "HDD" for Hard Disk Drive? I thought this was an article about a non-High Definition PS3 being made. Which, really, is a stupid idea, but so is not bundling an HDD.

    Thank you.