| Dodece said: This is a legitimate gripe, and frankly the original poster doesn't deserve to be given a hard time for what they are saying. These are two known problems. First you have large mandatory installs, and then second the console shipped with very limited space. While you are all throwing workarounds at the poster your forgetting the fact that you shouldn't need workarounds on consoles. You buy a console to game instantly and without hassle. You definitely shouldn't have to be doing data management. It is inconvenient to be deleting and reinstalling games to the machine to play them. You should just shove the disc and be able to play in short order. You absolutely shouldn't be compelled to upgrade a console. Upgrading is for the PC not for the all in one box. Consoles are about convenience if some would turn off their fan beams they might actually see the forest from the trees. The reality is that Sony made two major mistakes. First the hardware encouraged developers to make their games with large mandatory installs. Second Sony failed in quality assurance in that they let them bring games to the console that required it. This is a problem with forethought on the part of Sony. On the upside the problem is going away with time, but the early adopters are still left paying the price. They have a right to be upset. Especially since they already ponied up so much cash in the first place. With a lot of money spent comes the realistic expectation of greater quality. A owner just shouldn't have to deal with this kind of crap when it comes to a console. |
Sure, and I want my $350 back for being an early adopter of the Xbox 360.
HDD may have been optional, but with 20GB it was on the verge of being worthless even back in 2007. With the increased reliance upon HDD space (and larger DD file purchases), it is almost completely worthless if you use online services, installs and all the other benefits that come with a decent sized drive.
Sony's HDD solution has been the best storage solution yet to grace a console, giving a full range of choices in capacity at market prices. If upgrading drives is too technical or difficult for some, I do believe the 40GB model was made available along side the more expensive 80GB model.
So complaining about having less space while not wanting to pay for more is more than a bit hypocritical.
