http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 27th 2008 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/
Now go jump off a tall building and see if your MacBook Air can really hold true to it's name.]]>Feb 26th 2008 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/
To Kiwi616--a 20GB PS3 is never going to happen. 40GB is the minimum that you need these days with all the games that require large hard drive installs (like Devil May Cry 4--5GB).

But you will see the 40GB down to $299 before the year's out.]]>Feb 26th 2008 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/
These aren't PC games; they are console games. The whole point is to drop them in and go. I don't want to spend half an hour learning Sanskrit while my game installs, and moreover, that isn't even the most efficient way to improve load times. If the system had a 4GB high speed flash scratch disk that that a game could temporarily write to the hard drive problem (at least for games) wouldn't exist, load times would be much faster than off the hard disk, there wouldn't be install times, and the cost would be a system component that consistently drops in price (unlike HDD which have a floor that they hit regardless of capacity) and initial load times comparable to any game now as it first launches.

Essentially game systems should implemented Vista ReadyBoost if they want to improve game load times, not require large hard disks for lengthy game installs.]]>Feb 27th 2008 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/just one source) in the case of Devil May Cry 4 that the load times
on the PS3 were "Significantly better" than on it's 360 counterpart
due to the hard drive install.

To me a one-time install is no big deal at all if the trade-off is better performance. ]]>Feb 27th 2008 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/
And, I was referring to the White PSP that has the Darth Vader on the back and how that annoyed me.]]>Feb 26th 2008 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/
bet if he said, right on sony! microsoft sucks, hddvd sucks...you'd all rank him high. why not just change your user names to "sonylover1" and the number can increase with each one of you...]]>Feb 27th 2008 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Mar 25th 2008 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/May 15th 2008 1:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/02/26/destination-playstation-news-mgs-ps3-bundle-kratos-psp-and-dualshock3-release-date-by/) was saying the bundle would be out in JUNE while the game (God of War) would still be out in March...]]>Feb 26th 2008 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/"The standalone version of God of War: Chains of Olympus launches on
March 4. The God of War PSP Entertainment Pack will be available for
$199.99 (MSRP) in June 2008 and includes the following components."]]>Feb 26th 2008 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 27th 2008 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/
Come on Sony, The fewer components in my cabinet, the better. I'm not buying a PS3 without it.]]>Feb 26th 2008 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/
I mean, how embarrassing would it be for Sony if you couldn't play the upcoming MGS collection (1-3) for the PS2 on the same PS3 you get with MGS4?]]>Feb 26th 2008 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/(Is New SKU better than old SKU?)


]]>Feb 26th 2008 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/
I mean, I SERIOUSLY hope Sony isn't dumb enough to put out a higher level PS3 that can't play PS2 games at all. I still think this is here until they run completely out of 80GB PS3s so they can easily bring in the 120GB/160GB PS3 without the slow, drawn out death the 20GB/60GB PS3s suffered...]]>Feb 26th 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/
Yes, similar to the Motorstorm bundle, the new MGS4 bundle features an 80GB PS3 with some PS2 backwards compatibility."]]>Feb 26th 2008 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/
Also nifty cup holder in the middle!]]>Feb 26th 2008 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/
::looks disapprovingly at his GBA, GBA SP, GBA SP+, GB Player, and GBA Micro::]]>Feb 26th 2008 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 27th 2008 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/
"...God of War PSP Entertainment Pack, which includes a spiffy red Kratos-approved PSP, the God of War: Chains of Olympus game, Superbad on UMD, and a voucher to download Syphon Filter: Combat Ops for free. $200"

$200. Right there. Not $499 or $1299. If you meant $199, well, you're not correcting anyone. It's there in the article.

The $499 is for the MGS4 PS3 bundle.]]>Feb 26th 2008 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/
Now, given that PS2s are so cheap and easy to get, perhaps backwards compatibility isn't that big a deal. I moved my PS2 to my office and left my PS3 int he living room, and even though I've got a 60gb, I never play PS2 games on my bigscreen.

While I would love for Sony to put cheap back compat in all new PS3s, it's smarter to get the 40gb and a new PS2 separate. If your entertainment center isn't big enough for the tiny PS2, you've got bigger problems.

But man, if you came out from under a rock and bought a PS2 and a DS today, you would not be missing much by ignoring the new stuff. Imagine what $500 in PS2 stuff gets you!]]>Feb 26th 2008 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/Feb 26th 2008 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-499-metal-gear-solid-ps3-bundle-god-of-war-psp/
..and before you freak out and claim I'm some PC fanboy, I'm not. I've got an iPhone and a Macbook Pro.]]>Feb 26th 2008 3:42PM