Sony May Be Planning 80GB PS3

narramissic writes "Included in a filing made by Sony to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) earlier this month regarding a change to the PlayStation 3's Bluetooth module is notification of a new PS3 game console with a higher-capacity hard-disk drive. From the cover letter: 'The model CECHE01 to be added by the difference of the capacity of hard disk.' It then says the new model will have an 80G-byte drive. Of course, Sony is downplaying these rumours, saying that 'Application to the FCC has been made with various possibilities in mind, however, it does not lead to a new product announcement at this time.'

Comments

Nothing New

[Anonymous Coward]

People have been upgrading their HDDs on the PS3 since the day it came out. The HDD on the PS3 is user-replaceable so you can swap it with any 2.5 inch SATA drive you want. I personally swapped my 20GB drive for a 120GB 7.2K drive.

Re:Nothing New

[krotkruton]

It's not the size of the hard drive that counts; its the motion in the controller, but you can get a BIG hard drive if you feel the need for compensation.

But seriously, I've got a PS3 and a Wii, and storage space was the last thing I was thinking about when I bought them. An 60GB or a 80GB PS3 translates to a $650 and a $700 PS3 (or most likely some other price over $650) as far as I'm concerned, and I think a lot of people feel the same way. Is that extra 20GB going to be worth the extra money? If they go through with it, this seems like a foolish move for Sony.

so is this the FIFTH version of the PS3?

[Xenomorph.NET]

will there be five PlayStation 3s now? 20 Gig PS3 with and without PS2 hardware. 60 Gig PS3 with and without PS2 hardware. 80 Gig PS3 without PS2 hardware.

Re:so is this the FIFTH version of the PS3?

[Kuukai]

Regardless, nice try at trying to spin this future minor drive upgrade as some 'bewildering and frustrating explosion of PS3 models'. Especially since it's extremely common anyway. The PS2 had a huge number of revisions and most people never noticed until it shrank. If you're gonna criticize them, criticize them for not having more versions, such as a harddrive-less one. That said, hardware-wise I think there are officially four versions now excluding region crap. CECHA (the original 20GB hardware), CECHB (the original 60GB hardware), CECHC (the emu one), and now CECHE. If CECHD exists, anyone know what the hell it is?

Re:so is this the FIFTH version of the PS3?

[fullmetal55]

well I've personally seen several versions. ones with firewire, ones without, ones with 2 USB ports , ones with only one USB port, the mini version. not as much whining about that i must admit. i know at least one person who hated the firewire disappearing (his original died, and he went and bought a second one and it was missing the firewire), although i never did know what it was for.

PS3 Drives Easily Upgradeable

[Anonymous Coward]

The PS3 is designed to easily upgrade the harddrive so this really isn't news. You can put any laptop drive you buy in the machine. I believe someone already has a 500 gig PS3.

Very cool.

Re:What's the point?

[Anonymous Coward]

I have on my PS3:

Multiple 500+ meg demos
Large game caches to accelerate game loading
Downloaded movies - about 700 megs to 1.5 gig each
A bunch of music and audio files
A 10 gig Linux partition

Re:PS3 wasn't expensive enough!

[rlp]

> Analysts are saying that the PS3 needs a price drop.
> So how do Sony and MS respond to this? By releasing
> a MORE EXPENSIVE VERSION of their existing consoles.

Sony currently sells a 20 GB and 60 GB model. The 60 GB version
is outselling the 20 GB by a considerable margin. Admittedly Sony
has limited themselves to the hard-core gamer niche market. But their
action makes sense in terms of that market segment.