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Orca_Azure on 31 July 2009

This makes me miss the days when an 8mb memory card was all one needed to play.



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Bladeforce on 31 July 2009

You have to ask yourself why a BR Disc would want to be put onto a HD in the first place? IS this because Sony know that deep down people want ease of access to games on HD's than hunt for their discs every time they want to play a game? Hmm so really Sony have already shown what a mess BR is straight away



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AdventWolf on 31 July 2009

It's not a fail, inconvenience? yea. But with a bunch of things you always run out of space and you can either delete stuff or upgrade. With a PSP you run out of space on a MS, you delete stuff or get a new stick.

At least they enabled you to have the ability to upgrade the HDD. That is a plus in itself.
You payed cheaper for the 40GB HDD PS3, you get what you payed for.
Now Sony raised the size to 80 GB on $400 models, and there is the 160 GB Uncharted model if you wish to pay more.

IMO: Sony is spot on.



WereKitten on 31 July 2009
NJ5 said:
Dno said:
id rather pay lesss and open a case that takes 2 secs then pay 100 bucks more for far less space (yes im talking xbox 360)Sonys HDD solution>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Xboxs solution....


Agreed, but at least on the 360 games work without installation. That's the core of the problem and what would piss me off if I had a PS3 as far as I'm concerned.

 

It's not like Sony made installations compulsory. Uncharted 1 and 2, Killzone 2 (among others) seem to work very well without one. If a game installs 5 GB of stuff while those technical monsters don't maybe something is wrong with it.



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NJ5 on 31 July 2009
WereKitten said:
NJ5 said:
Dno said:
id rather pay lesss and open a case that takes 2 secs then pay 100 bucks more for far less space (yes im talking xbox 360)Sonys HDD solution>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Xboxs solution....


Agreed, but at least on the 360 games work without installation. That's the core of the problem and what would piss me off if I had a PS3 as far as I'm concerned.

 

It's not like Sony made installations compulsory. Uncharted 1 and 2, Killzone 2 (among others) seem to work very well without one. If a game installs 5 GB of stuff while those technical monsters don't maybe something is wrong with it.


Of course not, but they didn't forbid it either. Console makers have all kinds of requirements for developers, that could be another one.

 



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The Velour Fog on 31 July 2009
NJ5 said:
kowenicki said:
Oh just buy a large HDD.... 320gig for bugger all cash... never even have to think about it again.

 

Is this what you expect to need when you buy a console?

 

 

Any reason to hate on the PS3, eh? You really are pathetic.

Remember memory cards? This is no different.



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NJ5 on 31 July 2009

The Velour Fog:

No, in fact there are a few things about the PS3 which I like quite a lot, such as region free gaming and Linux.

Having to do space management, wait for game installs or replace the hard drive on a 400 € console is not something I see as a positive though. I guess I'm just that biased!

 



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Xoj on 31 July 2009

well at least you don't have 360.
u would have 20gb. and make worse because u can't install part of the games, but make .iso of the 4 discs.

ps3 HDD is easy to swap. and u can get 320Gb+ 100$.

 



NJ5 on 31 July 2009
Xoj said:
well at least you don't have 360.
u would have 20gb. and make worse because u can't install part of the games, but make .iso of the 4 discs.

I do have a 360... the only thing I have on the HDD is a copy of Ninja Gaiden Black I downloaded from Xbox Live, all the disc games work without installation.

 



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Xoj on 31 July 2009
NJ5 said:
Xoj said:
well at least you don't have 360.
u would have 20gb. and make worse because u can't install part of the games, but make .iso of the 4 discs.

I do have a 360... the only thing I have on the HDD is a copy of Ninja Gaiden Black I downloaded from Xbox Live, all the disc games work without installation.

 

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