My 2010 Projections For PS360 Total HW Sold...Gap May Be Reduced Massively!

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jarrod said:

binary solo said:
The $199 buy and install your own HDD PS3?

Really, who wants a paltry 120Gig HDD when you can shove your own 500Gig HDD into the unit? And still only pay a total of $299 in the end (or less if it's a used 500Gig HDD).

I've got a wothless 80Gig HDD sitting around at home. Seriously, who, other than someone who still has their original 20 or 40 Gig HDD in earlier PS3 models, is going to be interested in having an 80Gig laptop HDD? I'd probably have a hard time giving it away, and if the peron didn't live locally I'd probably have to pay for the postage. You could say that a buy and install your own HDD PS3 is actually more environmentally friendly, because it will help reduce the amount of e-waste in the world.

HDD costs are a pittance for Sony, they'll make too much more on a higher-price-point+HDD to do away with it like Microsoft with the Arcade.  It's also one of their competitive advantages in the developer arena to espouse every PS3 being HDD-backed.

I'll take the cheapness of HDD costs as a given. However where did you get from my post that I suggested Sony should do a PS3 Arcade? There is no equivalence between the 360 Arcade and my concept for a $199 PS3, every PS3 will still need a HDD. My suggestion is simply that the purchaser can have the choice of either buying a PS3 with a pre-installed HDD (120Gig or 250Gig), or buying a PS3 without a pre-installed HDD and sourcing their own HDD for the system.

If Sony don't want to run the risk of people buying a cheap PS3 not realising they need to get themselves a HDD (and sales staff being clueless about why the cheap PS3 is cheap) then the HDD-less units could be restricted only to stores / websites that also sell laptop HDDs.

If HDDs are so cheap I think it's unconscionable for Sony to sell a 250Gig PS3 for $100 more (in my country) than a 120Gig unit if the difference in cost (to Sony) between the HDDs is only a couple of dollars.