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DigitalDevilSummoner on 24 July 2012

Don't wanna sound like a broken record but the deference is 2 mil with the ps3 being a whole year less in the market. 

The tides have shifted.



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Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 on 24 July 2012
Ajescent said:
NotStan said:
Mandatory installs, ginarmous patches, PSN games. I am not entirely sure how people will think that 16GB is suffice. Need an 8th of that just to play GT5.. Hmm


Some people survive on 4gb 360s...just sayin'


Mandatory install makes a HECK of a lot of difference. Trust me. 



Yay!!!

Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 on 24 July 2012
Sal.Paradise said:
smroadkill15 said:
Sal.Paradise said:
smroadkill15 said:
Ajescent said:
NotStan said:
Mandatory installs, ginarmous patches, PSN games. I am not entirely sure how people will think that 16GB is suffice. Need an 8th of that just to play GT5.. Hmm


Some people survive on 4gb 360s...just sayin'

Ya, but you don't have manditory installs for 360 games, just optional. 

I read recently that Halo 4's multiplayer will require an 8gb installation...

Not required, but highly recommended. I think for downloading Spartan Ops missions. 

Just looked at the Verge, IGN and ...xbox.com, all say 8gb is mandatory if you want to play multiplayer :/


Isnt it FLASH install? So we can just use USBs... Done



Yay!!!

greenmedic88 on 24 July 2012
bananaking21 said:
NotStan said:
Mandatory installs, ginarmous patches, PSN games. I am not entirely sure how people will think that 16GB is suffice. Need an 8th of that just to play GT5.. Hmm


i think this isnt targeted at people like you and me, the hardcore gamers. i think this is targeted at families and kids. you know that is there strategy and target audince this holiday. people who would play sly cooper, littlebigplanet karting, playstation all starts. you know people who wouldnt care (or even know) about installs and stuff like that. parents do tend to buy cheap consoles for there kids and this would be great for them. and for people like us sony has the 250 gb SKU just 50 bucks more, i think what there doing is pretty smart

I would actually rather buy the model with 16GB of onboard flash assuming it has an empty HDD bay. That way I'm not boxing up a 160GB or 250GB HDD that I have little use for after I install a 500-1000GB replacement, or just install one of the many 2.5" HDDs I already have on hand. 



bananaking21 on 24 July 2012
NotStan said:
bananaking21 said:
NotStan said:
Mandatory installs, ginarmous patches, PSN games. I am not entirely sure how people will think that 16GB is suffice. Need an 8th of that just to play GT5.. Hmm


i think this isnt targeted at people like you and me, the hardcore gamers. i think this is targeted at families and kids. you know that is there strategy and target audince this holiday. people who would play sly cooper, littlebigplanet karting, playstation all starts. you know people who wouldnt care (or even know) about installs and stuff like that. parents do tend to buy cheap consoles for there kids and this would be great for them. and for people like us sony has the 250 gb SKU just 50 bucks more, i think what there doing is pretty smart


Mm that is true, but then the same gamers would turn on the PS3 to see a 1-2GB patch that needs installing, not sure if they know exactly how to circumvent such installations(by going in the offline mode)

true but i guess sony doesnt really care much, they would have had there money by then and also if they do contact sony they can inform them how to get around it. you can either delete patches once your done with a game or install an hard drive, there are ways around it. and this is the age of the internet anybody can easily search online for a solution



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sales2099 on 24 July 2012

The tide is shifting.....when the gen is in its last legs. lol



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles. 

 

Tridrakious on 24 July 2012

The 16gb flash drive will just be a starting point. Every PS3 features interchangable hard drives. Sony can advertise how easy it is to swap out hard drives and they are inexpensive.



drkohler on 24 July 2012
greenmedic88 said:

I would actually rather buy the model with 16GB of onboard flash assuming it has an empty HDD bay. That way I'm not boxing up a 160GB or 250GB HDD that I have little use for after I install a 500-1000GB replacement, or just install one of the many 2.5" HDDs I already have on hand.

You might be out of luck then. The PS3 requires a SATA drive to boot and the console has that one SATA slot for the HD. The 16GB card could be a as-cheap-as-you-can-make-it slot card. The flash memory could also be somewhere else but that would require a second SATA slot (major mainboard changes), to that the end a HD-less solution could end up costing more..



bouzane on 24 July 2012
Galaki said:
The gen is already over, what tide are we talking about?


How is the gen over when there are tens of millions of consoles left to sell and potentially hundreds of millions of units of software?



Turkish on 24 July 2012

PS3 reaching 100 million in less than 3 years.