Yes, you can never have enough free space on your hard drive. I have a 120GB for my Xbox and I still have over 80GB of free space.
Do we really need a 320GB PS3?
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I've got a 20 gig hard drive on my Xbox, and need to upgrade to 60 gig.
360gb is just ridiculous.
360gb is just ridiculous.
2.5" HDD.. which is to say, a laptop HDD... and strangely enough, the same kind as almost every external HDD. So unless there was a hard limit set by the PS3's operating system, you could probably rip a 1Tb 2.5" drive out of an external enclosure, slot that in, and feeling vastly to the people blowing wads of cash on the whole 360Gb system.Generic Gamer said:
You can also do something somewhat similar with Xbox 360s... except that it totally bones any warranty and it's a bit more complicated than doing it for a PS3 because of some lovely proprietary firmware in the 360. Also possible there's an operating system limit on HD sizes the 360 will accept... I'd have to look it up again.
Agreed, I did exactly the same and it just gives peace of mind as I recall on my 60gb drive, I was forever hoping the next few games didn't have excessively large install requirements. Then I gave up as it hit 8 to 10gb remaining and thus upgraded asap with a drive from play.com.TimeLord said:
I think anything over 500gb is overkill really but in the meantime around the 300gb gives peace of mind to the user more than anything, there's no need to check the amount of space remaining as you're bound to have bags of room left over for anything up and coming over the horizon
I personally may have to upgrade to a 120, possibly 320 just to be safe. I currently have a 80gb, and its gettin pretty close to the limit. It really does depend on what you do with it. I practically use the PS3 almost everything except school projects and work related stuff.
Personally I would have gone with PS360. It rolls off the tongue better.SuperMse said:
On topic: Well, more free space is a good thing I suppose. And I guess it might sound better to a more casual consumer. It's kind of like screen size for TVs; it's not needed, but people like having the bigger ones.
[sub]Any innuendo in this post is entirely accidental.[/sub]
Actually they're gonna charge for the 360 one the same they're charging for the 250 one, which probably got a slight price drop.WanderingFool said:
well i have a 500Gb ps3 (it was an old 40Gb) and i have more than half filled it i am having to buy a 1tb hard drive to put the rest of my stuff on it, (most of the things are movies by the way)
Over-priced, with only older games (and not even that many). Yeah, total win.Flavonator said:
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OT: They're bringing Steamworks to the PS3, so they may have a version of the Steam store on there (note to the guy I've quoted: the Steam store is how you do digital distribution) but that's purely speculation on my part.
I'd get the 320GB just for the sake of it; with these things you find that if you get the smaller you fill it up too quickly, and with the larger you never get anywhere close to max capacity. The latter is the safest option.
You have to remember the ps3 can also store music videos and pictures. For the people using it as their go-to multi-media interface the 360 gig unit could be great news. It will boil down to individual need/ desire. I have an 80 gig one myself and am planning to upgrade soon to make space for the new games and music I'll be adding.
Yes, you'd probably need it if you've got lots of games like Gran Turismo 5 Prologue and GTA 4, those games takes up like 5-6 GBs of space. I can't imagine how much place Gran Turismo 5 will actually take, if it's ever released and not delayed again that is.
PS360!!
Hahaha. Anyway, I have a 250gb xbox (not the slim), and I spent about half of those gigs on intalling games, and games demos. I like to intall my games because it makes my jet engine xbox run quiet.
360gb seems like a way lot to me, but as long a Sony gives you options, I'm not gonna complain about larger ps3s making smaller ps3s cheaper.
Hahaha. Anyway, I have a 250gb xbox (not the slim), and I spent about half of those gigs on intalling games, and games demos. I like to intall my games because it makes my jet engine xbox run quiet.
360gb seems like a way lot to me, but as long a Sony gives you options, I'm not gonna complain about larger ps3s making smaller ps3s cheaper.
If you look at hard drive prices, there's always a sweet spot in terms of price per GB, and even a certain spot where smaller hard drives cost more than larger ones. In all likelihood, Sony is just increasing hard drive sizes for the PS3 as bulk prices hit a point that it doesn't make sense for them to stay smaller. At this point it's probably close to actually getting more expensive to have a 120GB hard drive instead of a 160GB one, and the 320GB one is really likely just there to compete with the 250GB one in the Xbox 360 S.science girl said:
250gb really does sound like enough but more wouldn't hurt i suppose, not that i'd buy it myself.
Sony seem to be putting a few disc-based games up for download, like LittleBigPlanet, maybe the extra space is to compensate for more large downloads like that.
Sony seem to be putting a few disc-based games up for download, like LittleBigPlanet, maybe the extra space is to compensate for more large downloads like that.
