"New" PS3 Pricing Explanation

[Ganoncrotch]

poroporo said:

fillet said:

poroporo said:

selnor said:

poroporo said:

selnor said:
Can you explain why there is a 12gb? And who the hell at Sony okayed this?

You cant play all the games, you need a HDD for mandatory installs.

You guys don't seem to be familiar with the 4GB xbox 360. 

You can play every 360 game without installs.

So with the 4gb 360 you can save all your games and play every game.

With the PS3 you have titles with mandatory installs. Quite alot. Which means you cant play all games on Ps3 12 gb flash memory.

Insane.

 

Try playing co-op Halo Reach on a 4gb. Try playing a MMO such as FFXI on a 4gb. 

Try downloading any DLC. Want to pop in a 250gb hard drive afterwards? That'll be $112.99 for the proprietary hard drive instead of $59.99 if you would have bought a 12gb ps3.

If you don't mind paying for DLC.

You likely won't mind paying for an overpriced hard drive. :p

Each has its own target audience. There's no alternative to buying a DLC (either you do or you don't). On the other hand, a $52 premium on a hard drive means you probably should have bought the bigger xbox right away.

Game performance (cutscenes, texture loads, etc.) is also affected if you don't install some games to a hard drive. Also not a fan of the laser wearing out early in the console's life because it's constantly being sollicited...

I myself bought a 250GB 360S last week. Can't wait to get my hands on it -- haven't touched it yet. 

if you are talking about going a cheaper way to avoid shelling out for harddrive alternatives you can get a 16gb flash drive for about 8euros here and the xbox can set it up to be used for dlc no bothers and 16gb is more than enough for the store content.

 

also the bolded text.... what? there is more likely to be damage done to a consoles drive by being inactive and left alone for dust to gather on the lens than there ever would be by playing games using the drive. I've never heard of a single drive this generation to die of too much reading with the exception of early wiis modified to read actual dvds using the dvdx software... but that was damage because the drive wasn't meant to read those format of disks.