See, that's the thing. Your average and more casual consumer will buy anything so long as you have a good sales pitch. Why do you think phones, MP3 players and home cinema sets are being sold with bigger and bigger harddrives? Compression of music and film is only getting better after all. They buy it because something better is something bigger and/or with more functions in their view and because they're tempted into these products by ads and word of mouth.

Every new phone, MP3 player, PC I have bought has had more space then the previous product and despite any advances in compression I manage to fill them up very quickly.

God a bundle like that worlwide would seriously fuck up the competition, and dominate just about everything.

That's simply because as storage capacity increases, the hardware manufacturers and music, film, useless stuff (ringtones etc) makers offer you more content. The amount of stuff available for iPhone, MP3 players and various online movie rental services and so forth has exploded in the last 3-4 years. The hardware manufacturer gets to sell you a barely improved product at a much higher price and music, movie and crap services inundate you with content and make all the more money on you as a consumer.

Its a massive win for them.

This nice piece of news was shut down/attacked pretty quickly... I know this is just a rumor... but... I'm just curious... If you don't care about the HDD space, sure you can get a slim and the game for 360$. Good.

But if you do care about the space... 120GB + GT5 = 360$. Then buy a 250GB HDD... why are peopel saying this is cheaper than this bundle???

Sub 40$ 250GB HDD's for PS3??? Point me in their direction, PLEASE!!!! At what store can I get this??!!

EDITED: Accidently put 320GB... 

@Mummelmann

Yes but that doesn't stop the consumer need for devices with more space. My MP3 is full only of music and my laptop with games, movies, music. These are not things I consider useless crap and advances in compression have not alleviated the problem and so I need devices with more space (i.e not just a good sales pitch)

Well I expect a rise as the final phat PS3s sell out for good. A lot of places are completely sold out of PS3s till Sept. 1st now.

If you really want that extra space then it is a good deal, I just don't see there being much demand for it at that price.

i have to change my GT5 sales projections back to over 10 million now that its being bundled

oh, please.  the lord of VGChartz.

just let PS3 fans have this one.

i've never seen you jump out and stop the MH3 over 1 million first month speculaiton.