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Darc Requiem on 16 August 2008
theprof00 said:
when are they going to increase bdrom speed?

 

They aren't. It wouldn't make sense. PS3 titles have to be programmed with the current drive speed in mind.



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dolemit3 on 16 August 2008
theprof00 said:
when are they going to increase bdrom speed?

 

They might improve the lifetime of the drive (especially the laser diode) but not its speed.



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AnarchyWest on 16 August 2008

PSN cards should be next



Tbone on 16 August 2008
AnarchyWest said:
PSN cards should be next

 

 Agree been waiting for those quite some time,hopefully they will announce them during Leipzig game convention next week.



 

Dgc1808 on 16 August 2008

Nice to see it comes with a DS3.



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Nickelbackro on 16 August 2008

I am so bummed over the removal of BC, that makes a PS3 purchase at the end of gen for me very unlikely. Sony lost an end of gen customer in me, and i will probably buy a 360 come 2012-2014 unless BC is restored.

Edit: I'm not trying to troll, I just find it hard to be excited for an increase in HDD space at the sacrifice of the playback of over 1700 games.



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akuma587 on 16 August 2008

Cool. Glad to see Sony is getting these out sooner than later. I wonder when they will upgrade the 80 Gig with BC to a 120 or 160, or dare I say bigger?



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oxford-gamer on 16 August 2008
Nickelbackro said:

I am so bummed over the removal of BC, that makes a PS3 purchase at the end of gen for me very unlikely. Sony lost an end of gen customer in me, and i will probably buy a 360 come 2012-2014 unless BC is restored.

Edit: I'm not trying to troll, I just find it hard to be excited for an increase in HDD space at the sacrifice of the playback of over 1700 games.

you own 1700 games? With every year passing, BC becomes more and more obsolete. Unless you wanted to catch up on the games you missed last generation, or if you  didn't own a ps2, BC is not a big deal. All Sony can do now is attempt to assimulate the sku's, so they become easier to understand for consumers.

 

 

 



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Rainbird on 16 August 2008
Nickelbackro said:

I am so bummed over the removal of BC, that makes a PS3 purchase at the end of gen for me very unlikely. Sony lost an end of gen customer in me, and i will probably buy a 360 come 2012-2014 unless BC is restored.

Edit: I'm not trying to troll, I just find it hard to be excited for an increase in HDD space at the sacrifice of the playback of over 1700 games.

You do realise that this is the 40 GB SKU, but with double the harddrive space right?



chenguo4 on 16 August 2008
Nickelbackro said:

I am so bummed over the removal of BC, that makes a PS3 purchase at the end of gen for me very unlikely. Sony lost an end of gen customer in me, and i will probably buy a 360 come 2012-2014 unless BC is restored.

Edit: I'm not trying to troll, I just find it hard to be excited for an increase in HDD space at the sacrifice of the playback of over 1700 games.

 

You can still probably pick up a used one that has BC.


Anyhow, I think by then they'll have put out a firmware upgrade that gives all models BC with software emulation.




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