What would you rather have: A Hard Drive or Backwards Compatibility?

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It depends if I have the previous system. If I bought a PS3, BC would be incredibly important to me, as I don't own a PS2, and there are many games that I would like to play. Hard drive (if it wasn't necessary to play every game) wouldn't matter so much, so long as I had somewhere to save my games. the 512MB internal flash in the Wii is good enough for me, saves my games and stores Vitrual Console games. A small store of flash memory in the PS3 would be cheaper than a Hard Drive, if games didn't require multi-GB installs to play.