These two paragraphs have some issues Jay. To start no one likes the installs on PS3. I guess you ignored that it's one of the biggest complaints people have with the system. Also PS3 only installs a small amount of data, not the whole game. People are worried with nextbox that the HDD will fill up fast.

Blocking used games has more to do with other rumors while this just barely reaffirms its potential. Sony has flat out said millions of times they are not blocking used games. The shady part comes from the fact they won't comment on what third parties do.

I agree with most of what you were posting. Just wanted to point out that I have seen at least a couple PS3 games have 10+GB installs, and several that were over 5+GB.

Either way, fully installing a game would be like 20GB per game for a next gen console (I'm guessing here, but Call of Duty games on PC are like 12GB so it could be a tad less than 20GB). If 500GB is the standard HDD size, which it should since that is cheap, that's still room enough for 15-20 active installed games. If you are a hoarder and play older games or game a ton, I'm sure that new feature of playing games while they install would be good if you had to delete some games to make space.

My 320gb ps3 is filled up with normal game installs, a bunch of ps+ games, psn games, movies, videos, music, pictures. 500gb will be gone in no time if all next gen games require full installs.

Play while installing is a nice feature, although it remains to be seen how that is going to work exactly.
The main problem is having to delete stuff every time a new game comes out. Someone mentioned Steam. I have the same problem there, about 10% of my games are installed, the rest all deleted. 1tb is full with plenty of other stuff competing for space.

It's just putting up extra barriers when you quickly want to revisit an older game.

Sadly, probably yes.

To JayWood:

Thank you for posting this thread. I was tired of correting people in all the threads that were talking about it. You may want to change the thread title and information to be "Sleep Mode" though. Hibernation is a deeper state that consumes no power and requires a longer startup time. Also, here is some more info for your OP if you'd like. It is for those people who are worried about this using a lot of electricity on their bills by being "always on".

One last comment I want to make. EA has some kind of deal with MSFT correct. now if MSFT does block used games and Sony does not I would not doubt if EA puts all of there games as timed exclusives on MSFT's console so all games are sold as new for let's say 1-6 months. It wouldn't be out of the normal if many publishers and developers would take the same approach so for all of the sony fans saying this is dumb, well it is not. it is a business strategy that will help publishers and developers (which they have been screaming about for years. Do you guys really not think they won't take advantage of this?) and in return help MSFT. So if they team up together (which they will) then it isnt looking so high and mighty for sony any more seeing as MSFT would be getting timed exclusives from many big games. So before you guys draw conclusions without even thinking them through try thinking.