buy the base model...
and upgrade the hard drive yourself?
Sony will launch a more capacious slimline PlayStation 3 next month, a mole has claimed. The 250GB PS3 Slim will be unveiled at some point next month, a “reliable source” told the Spanish arm of gaming website Eurogamer. It will supposedly retail for around €350 (£308/$509) – roughly €50 more than the existing 120GB model's …
...anyone would opt for a bigger hard disk configuration on a PS3 and pay more for it. 2.5" drives are cheap as chips and even my mum could do the installation Sony have made it so simple to do. Honsetly, if you can attach a 13amp plug to a wall socket you are probably over qualified! Factor in flogging the existing 120GB on eBay or some other flea market and buying your own drive (7200rpm instead of Sony's 5400 of course) and you're away.
For £40 you can get a 320GB 2.5" drive from Dabs/Scan/Misco/Aria/Amazon etc...................
Hell - There's a Samsung 500GB 2.5" drive for ~£55.
Sony needs to stop messing around, and put a decent capacity drive in the PS3 for a reasonable amount of money. In the mean time, buy the cheapest model you can find and upgrade yourself - it's only a couple of screws............
Paris - cos she could cope with a couple of screws................................ Sorry
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Can you even do that with the slim model?
Either way, will anyone even need that much space?
I upgraded mine (320GB drive in my PS3 Phat) - I download games and demo's from the PSN store, record stuff through Play TV and haven't used hardly any of it. Not even 50Gig
Just don't see the point :S
I just bought two of the *old* models at a nice discount. The lack of Linux support on the Slim is what finally convinced me that it was the right time to splash out. I've been learning to program the SPEs on the thing in the last week and am really impressed with the performance of the code I've ported so far. Of course, time will tell whether I should have waited longer to get the hardware at an even cheaper price, or should simply have gone for a second-hand console. Maybe I worried too much about the supply of old machines drying up. Either way, the old machine does what I want with great performance. Slims? Who needs them?
Plenty of people cannot perform the HDD upgrade of the PS3, easy as it is. After all, plenty of people have never even bought a HDD separate from a computer. That's who the model is aimed at. I don't see anything wrong with this.
There's a number of maintenance operation I can't perform on my car, that most people with a smidgen of workshop experience can easily do - yet noone feels car shops should stop offer those services!
At least Sony gives you the option of installing an off-the-shelf HDD!
Oh wow! someone who thinks his PS3 is somehow linked to his self esteem.
FACT, Go to newsgrounds.com and try to play some of the flash animations there, They play like 5 frames a second.
FACT, Try to play any flash games, even simple ones, You can't, the frame rates are way too low.
FACT, There are more uses for flash than a wrapper for the fucking bbc iPlayer videos you moron, besides flash there is only being used for loading / drm purposes, it doesn't render the damn video you muppet.
FACT, The PS3 IS CRAP AT FLASH.