Interesting, $499 160gb ps3 released yesterday sold out instantly gamestop

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Username2324 said:

Wii isn't the cheapest anymore (Although if you add up the totals for all the accesories you need they both approach the PS3's price point).

Anyways, the farthest hard drive capacity should go this generation in my opinion is 250GB. Otherwise too many of those harddrives would live an empty life and it'd just be a waste of money on Sony's part. If you hardcore games need a bigger drive then you can put one in, but I think for the vast majority 160GB is plenty.

 

 

Let's say you're are Shuhei Yoshida and you're trying to lower the PS3 price and give the most bang for the buck for the consumers, now you have a 80GB and a 160GB for 399 and 499 respectively. You want to get those prices to 299 and 399. Now next year HDD manufactures will go to you and say Mr. Yoshida, you can keep buying 80GB HDDs but those prices will stay at 50 bucks a pop, the 160 GB HDD will be 40 bucks a pop because all laptops nowadays are coming in 160GBs and we are moving towards the 250GB HDDs and 320GBs HDDs for our laptops, those will cost you 53 and 55 dollars per unit. What would you do? That's probably the main reason why they put a 80GB HDD on the 40GB sku and are now offering the 160GB HDD.

 

You say most of that storage will go unused, and that might be true for you but not for the gamer that I mentioned earlier, the one that wants all possible games on his HDD, as well as movies and TV shows and music, for those gamers, 320GB might not be enough.