Will the 12gb PS3 ever release stateside?

[zorg1000]

Mr Puggsly said:

zorg1000 said:

Well then they either buy a HDD or gwt the more expensive model, I dont get why u think its such a bad idea, the 12gb is for people who arent really buying games often but enjoy mainstream/casual titles which I dont think have mandatory installs and for multimedia features.

The 4gb 360 hasnt gotten many complaints and I think most people dont buy that standalone, mostly with thr Kinect bundle. Sony could do thr same thing and have the 12gb at $149 or bundled with Move and Wonderbook for $199 as one last push for those peripherals.

You're just repeating yourself and I gave you reasons why releasing the non-HDD console isn't a great idea. The fact is casual users aren't the only people buying the 12GB PS3.

I think the best way to go is keep the HDD in PS3, bundle every console with PS+ subscriptions, and get more people accustom to acquiring games digitally.

 

The 4GB 360 is a different. Xbox 360 games don't have huge mandatory installs and you can use USB memory sticks for more storage (you can use two 32GB sticks simultaneously for 64GB of extra storage). Games are also smaller in the 360 marketplace (no download is bigger than 8GB) so 64GB is a lot of space.

On the PS3 12GB, your only option for more space is buy a hard drive and that can easily be filled by large mandatory installs of a few games.

Is there really alot of games that require big mandatory installs? I thought there were only a few but I could be wrong. And with PS3 cant u use USB memory sticks as well? Or u could just buy a cheap 3rd party HDD. There are options for people who want to buy games digitally.

The reason im repeating myself is because u dont seem to get that the 12gb and 250-500gb are for different types of consumers. Do u think the people who get s 4gb 360 care about buying games digitally?