http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/
But you do need some form of cache. Maybe a 40 GB drive?
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I've said it before and nothing has changed in the 10 years since sony entered the market....sony = more of the same.
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Oh, I'm sorry - that'll hurt the Vaio folk. Oh well.]]>Feb 10th 2006 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/
"The lean mean reduced spec gaming machine!"]]>Feb 10th 2006 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/
The worst thing is that they think we are gullible enough to like their designs. Only a PS3 fan would like this, and only a 360 fanboy (not even a fan) would like the "modern concavity".]]>Feb 10th 2006 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/They said the optional hard drive would come with linux preinstaled.. If it comes with the hard drive standard, does this mean it will include linux as soon as we buy a PS3?
Just hope google launch it's software pack on time for linux on PS3 ;)
I've been dreaming of this device for a while (maybe a Slackware port for Cell)...
Just imagine a PS3 running XGL instead of the normal X11 graphic desktop ;)]]>Feb 10th 2006 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/
Your both wrong:

2004 MS payed ONE time dividend payout of 32 Billion.

MS has also almost completely regained the lost ground (cash)due to the one time dividend payout.

MS currently brings in approximately 1.4 billion profit (not revenue) per month.

MS is not evil simply because it has a lot of smart people and happens to be successfull... it's called capitalism and regardless of what anyone may "wish" it takes a "big company" to ship software to 98% of the worlds desktop users... your Mom and Pop OS shop can't quite pull that off.

;-)
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Uhhhh.... doesn't HDD stand for Hard Disk Drive? So the last one is for drive you smug pretentious schmuck!]]>Feb 10th 2006 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/
They do all of the statistical models and figure out that each fanboi will buy x number of games plus y number of peripherals plus z months of online subscription services plus extra buxers made with downloadable content, etc.

They can probably milk the average fanboi for well over $1000 over the time they own this thing so if they have to lose $300 a box initially it's still a wise move on Sony's part.]]>Feb 10th 2006 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/
I believe in the same interview he mentions the online "Cell Storage"

There has never been a statement saying the PS3 would not have a harddrive.]]>Feb 10th 2006 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/
1. Why would they drop the price while the products are still selling like crazy?

2. PS3 has been estimated (by professional analysts, not you) to cost about $494. Source: http://www.gamesradar.com/?pagetypeid=2&articleid=36432&subsectionid=1585

3. As long as there is optical media, there will be load times, but Blu-ray is faster than DVD, and developers have gotten really good at reducing load times to the minimum.

I wouldn't be using a harddrive for that narrow purpose anyway.

In the end, you have no clue if there will be a HDD included or not. But we do know that Sony is in this to produce a must-have product, and to cement Blu-ray into the industry, even at a great short-term cost.]]>Feb 10th 2006 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Emotion Engine
Built in AOL messenger functionality.
Anyone remember this? Also magazines/ news sources are notorious for not necessarily getting their facts right all the time. Why would SONY INCLUDE A HARD DRIVE WHEN THEY'RE TRYING TO SELL OF THEIR SHOODY MEMORY STICKS]]>Feb 10th 2006 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.gamesradar.com/?[/quote]

Since when is www.gamesradar.com considered a professional analyst?]]>Feb 10th 2006 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/
Don't miss out on all the fun do to believing the false messiah know as Sony.

Live in Sony's world or play now in Microsoft's.]]>Feb 10th 2006 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/

Jeff Minter: Since never. If you would've taken the time to read the short article, you would know that the "professional analysts" I mentioned is Merrill Lynch Japan; indeed considered both professional and analysts.

You people are obnoxious.]]>Feb 10th 2006 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/
If anything it looks like a Zip or Jazz drive.]]>Feb 10th 2006 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/
While the PS3 is no looker, at least the silver one, the black ones does look very decent. They should change it around a little, but who cares, you will be looking at the games not the system. I remember when the PS2 came out, I thought it wasn't a very attractive system, I still don't think it is. I've grown to its looks however. But then again neither is the XBOX and the 360 looks cheesy in person. It looks cheap to me, at least my opinion, maybe a better face plate would help on that.

Like distrbnce said, Blu-Ray is faster than DVD. It remains to be seen how fast it actually is. But from what I read it should be that much more faster with more throughput.

As big games are going to be from now on. They are going to need a high capacity storage to store all the patches needed for these games. There will be no doubt, more bugs and glitches through out games. Of course a developer could simply take more time on it, but how often is that done these days?

They are really getting close to that fine line where people are not willing to spend $1,000 on launch day. True that games today are bigger than they have ever been. But these financial times don't allow for such a high priced console and I'm talking in the high hundreds. Then again now that I'm thinking about it. I'm sure it would sell, we live in a high debt country, I'm sure most of ya would simply just get another Visa and max it out on the PS3.

Then again, Sony will get a lot off of Licensing. Not just for the games that are licensed for the PS3, or the accessories, But for getting Blu-Ray out and possibly making it the market leader, maybe even winning out with HD DVD. They stand to make enough money off of the Blu-Ray license as well.

....The thing that surprises me, is the support the Revolution has been getting. There is a lot of positive feedback, even on its different controller. ]]>Feb 10th 2006 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/
I'd rather have a Purse than an oversized Floppy Drive. ]]>Feb 10th 2006 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/
As for whos going to beat who - lets just wait and see. ]]>Feb 10th 2006 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/::::PLUS NO MATTER WHAT OTHER DESIGN THEY WOULD OF USED, YOU KIDS WOULD HAVE STILL TALKED SHIT ABOUT IT.
::::THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS NOT THE CONSOLE, BUT THE GAMES. BECAUSE WHAT'S THE POINT OF HAVING THE MOST STYLISH CONSOLE WITH THE COOLEST CONTROLLERS,AND FEATURES WHEN THE GAMES SUCK ASS.]]>Feb 10th 2006 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/Feb 10th 2006 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/10/report-ps3-to-have-a-hard-drive-after-all/

Idiot. Sony sent me a GAP eMail when I registered my PSP as well. I signed up, got the free (nice) hat & wear it while I play my 360 & my useless PSP collects dust. GAP is something EVERYONE gets to belong t, not just a select few. Fanboy marketing pure & simple. Oh yeah, & it makes you look stupid when you use it as a credential.]]>Feb 11th 2006 12:15AM