Not really enough to install many retail games these days either, most of my PS3 games take up at least a gig and on avergae I'd say about 4GB of my HDD space with a mandatory install.J Tyran said:
Strictly speaking, the Recession has been over since I believe 2009. We have been in the middle of the recovery for these past few years, though an abnormally long one.DVS BSTrD said:
Yeah you can, you need to buy an internal bracket though. Because it comes with no HDD it lacks the bracket, last time I checked they where only £5-6 or so. Otherwise any standard 2.5 inch drive will fit, you don't need a propriety one so any drive will work even SSDs. If you can pick up a drive cheaply or have one laying around you can save a bit of money.SkarKrow said:
The recession being over isn't an indicator of increased wealth. By the time the recession officially began, people had been feeling it for years. Now that it's over, people are still feeling it. People were calling it a recession long before it met the official criteria to be a recession. In academic terms, the recession ended in 2009 officially, then in 2010 the NBER ruled it not over and did not have a foreseeable time of it's ending. I'm sure it's over now as we have had some pretty good and sustained growth in their indices (financial market, unemployemnt, etc), but that doesn't mean anything in real world terms. Couple that with the fact that since then, people as a whole, are a lot more careful with their money. It's really quite funny that people believed the video game industry is recession proof, but it has seen a steep decline just last year. Dev houses going under, people getting laid off. This is due to multiple reasons though. One is over saturation of work force, another is over expansion of workforce to unsustainable levels, but people have been simply spending less money on games.Xanadu84 said:
Sadly, I had to debate this fact in these forums. Some people who bought the Vita would rather try to justify themselves paying the high price rather than face the fact that its too expensive for what it is.McGuinty1 said:
Even if the memory cards were a non factor, the PS Vita being almost $100 buck more than a 3DS hurt is a lot in sales. That and no major handheld franchises on it.TheSapphireKnight said:
Monster Hunter is going to be on the 3DS and not the Vita. The PS Vita losing the highest selling PSP franchise to the 3DS is a major reason it won't sell very well. The Vita needs a killer app with some clout. The few games it has won't cover that.TizzytheTormentor said:
Living near the 2nd worst City in America, I read that headline and laughed bitterly.DVS BSTrD said:
The Vita was launched at arguably one of the worst times possible, with the video game industry as a whole entering recession and consolidation. It's a loss-leading product with a high cost and little incentive to purchase even at a lower price. Crap game library and a high cost.AzrealMaximillion said:
One time my sister had a surprise birthday party and said "What a surprise." Lawyer'dGhonzor said:
I see, that's a pretty easy situation to solve then a 500GB WD Blue is only around £50 and will do the job quite nicely. I can't remember if there's a cap on how much capacity the PS3 will recognise, and I don't remember if it has to have that stupid formatting done to it still.J Tyran said:
I have no idea if it has a cap, the formatting is simple. On the first start up after the install the drive you get an option to activate the HDD, it does the formatting and setup for you. Doesn't seem to matter if the drive is empty, formatted or full of data. I saw 500GB Hitachi 2.5" drives for £35 the other day and some 500 GB Seagate Momentus drives for £40, £50 is a little on the expensive side because you can get better prices.SkarKrow said:
I wouldn't trust my precious save data to an Hitachi HDD xD but yeah you can get storage cheap and expand it relatively easily. I see, when I upgraded the HDD in mine way back when you had to format it on your PC first to FAT32 and it was a bit of a pain in the arse because I'd never had to do it and google was not helpful with it.J Tyran said:
