I don't see how they could warrant a more expensive price point for a measly 20 GB. What do you pay for a 500 GB drive now? 150 €? Wanna bet Sony sells their extra 20 GB for 50? Of course it's not the same but still, if you fill up 60 GB, 80 just seems like delaying the inevitable for a short while. Maybe they could just replace the 60 GB version, that might make sense.

I'd think that if they were to offer a more expensive alternative for the 60 GB version, and wanted to counter MS, that they'd at least offer a 150 GB version. 60 to 80 seems futile.

Not to be pissy but it's GB, not Gb. Soz. Gb would denote a Gigabit.

Not to be pissy....u possibley cudnt have followed that comment, with a more pissy remark.funny tho.

Yeah okay, point is we know what he/she means when he's says GB or Gb, I do that too.

Now Sony are looking like muppets because of an internal hard drive, which could have been a stand alone and possibly made PS3 a lot cheaper to buy. Maybe that's a joke in itself since Sony never sell anything at reasonable prices.

What's also funny is that while many want a Wii hard drive, the 'similar but not same as 360' external option is available to those who want one. How much you spend on one, and what size you get is up to you. Because of this, I know Wii and 360 will always be reasonable in price, from now til the end of their cycle. Can't say that about Sony.

I kind of hope Blu Ray fails, since I'm happy with the current format and soon a dvd/hd recorder.

How on earth do they look like muppets?

An FCC filing is made months in advance of a new product coming out. The 80GB version will probably hit in Q4 this year, in time for Christmas.

The HDD is not the most expensive part of the PS3, a 60GB drive that will fit the PS3 costs £30.49 ex VAT at SCAN. Sony will get them for £15 at the most because of the bulk numbers they are buying. You'd still be crying about the PS3 price if it was £410!

Also making the HDD a choice is a bad thing, just look at the 360 Core, it's crippled by lack of a hard drive. 360 games can't be written to take advantage of the HDD like they could in the Xbox or can now in the PS3, because the HDD isn't standard across the range.


Not so. I've just been into town and the official Sony HDMI cable is on sale for £18. That's a 3 metre cable, I've seen 1.5 metre Monster HDMI cables going for £80. The Sony one is pretty nicely priced.