Sony's answer to the XBOX 360 ELITE

[Deleted member 56031]

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5062&Itemid=2

oh god

 

[tehsolace]

Seriously are we not living in the time when hard drive space is the cheapest thing around? What is it at now? 50 cents per gig?

 

[VictimOfScience]

Er, well, I guess that is something I guess. It means almost nothing, both to me and to most consumers though.

Seriously are we not living in the time when hard drive space is the cheapest thing around? What is it at now? 50 cents per gig?

Not for the ELITE HDD--separately that thing is going to cost $179.99 for a 120 GB HDD!!! Crazy!!! I just got a 500 GB HDD for my PC and it was only $139.99!!!

 

[tehsolace]

Not for the ELITE HDD--separately that thing is going to cost $179.99 for a 120 GB HDD!!! Crazy!!! I just got a 500 GB HDD for my PC and it was only $139.99!!!

Exactly. Am I really supposed to believe consoles are cheaper than buying a gaming PC? I bought a new 120GB just last month for $59.99. Its not like they aren't using the same EXACT hard drive technology in their consoles!

 

[CyberPitz]

It's the labor of...hooking the new one up?

I dunno.

 

[Stigmata]

Well I'll be damned if following up a competitor's product announcement with your own inferior product isn't going to garner you market-wide acclaim.

 

[smwScott]

They haven't even announced they plan to release it, and if they do it will probably replace one of the current models rather than be a new SKU. This isn't that big of a deal. The PS3 HDD can be upgraded anyway, you don't have to pay $180 for a proprietary HDD ... god I hate MS.

Note to the dumb: patent was filed March 2, a few weeks before the "Elite" was announced.

 

[dream431ca]

Umm....you can buy this for the PS3 and connect it with a USB cable. Yay you just turned your PS3 into a 310GB storage device. You can't save anything onto a External drive with the 360. http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pr...46&catid=23795&logon=&langid=EN&test_cookie=1

 

[Sebastian]

Seriously, 179.99 for one ****ing component. That is beyond ass raping rip off and into the league of retarded drooling circle jerk **** up.

 

[Qonfused]

Wait... the 80GB PS3 is the works? In the works? How long does it take to put a different HDD in there?

 

[Sebastian]

I love how they parade extra hard drive space around like it's the next coming of Christ or something. Who really gives a flying fig. I have a 20 gig on my xbox and I have yet to use any of it for anything long term. Sure I download demos, but those last about half a day or three at most. And I don't even think about downloading movies from market place (have internet after all). For me, this whole extra hard drive space thing is a waste of time and money.

 

[Kyorisu]

Wait... the 80GB PS3 is the works? In the works? How long does it take to put a different HDD in there?

Read the article, they just filed for it.

btw AFAIK you can replace your PS3 hard drive without breaking warranty, yet you can't with a 360.

I love how they parade extra hard drive space around like it's the next coming of Christ or something. Who really gives a flying fig. I have a 20 gig on my xbox and I have yet to use any of it for anything long term. Sure I download demos, but those last about half a day or three at most. And I don't even think about downloading movies from market place (have internet after all). For me, this whole extra hard drive space thing is a waste of time and money.

Media center.

 

[smwScott]

I love how they parade extra hard drive space around like it's the next coming of Christ or something. Who really gives a flying fig. I have a 20 gig on my xbox and I have yet to use any of it for anything long term. Sure I download demos, but those last about half a day or three at most. And I don't even think about downloading movies from market place (have internet after all). For me, this whole extra hard drive space thing is a waste of time and money.

With the PS3 it's different. A lot of games actually install in the background when you first boot them similar to a PC game. Also, the thing is capable of running Linux which if you take advantage of is 10 gigs gone right there. When Home comes out a lot of people will want to put a lot of HD content on their system to show off. Unlike 360 Arcade, the PlayStation Network has full games available to download from the store. I have my entire music collection on there.

60GB is enough, but it's not really overkill at all. For the 360 though I agree, I can't imagine what you could possibly do to fill up a 120GB HDD.

 

[Gray Fox]

I love how they parade extra hard drive space around like it's the next coming of Christ or something. Who really gives a flying fig. I have a 20 gig on my xbox and I have yet to use any of it for anything long term. Sure I download demos, but those last about half a day or three at most. And I don't even think about downloading movies from market place (have internet after all). For me, this whole extra hard drive space thing is a waste of time and money.

Where are they parading like it's the next coming of the Christ, as far as I can see they just filed a patent for a 80 gb drive.

 

[Sebastian]

Where are they parading like it's the next coming of the Christ, as far as I can see they just filed a patent for a 80 gb drive.

I didn't mean to go off topic, but I was talking about the Xbox 360. If you're selling an arbitrary peripheral for 2/3 the cost of the system, I would say that they're over selling that product just a tad. As stated above, you can get a 500 gb hard drive now days for $150.00, which doesn't really add up when M$ tries to sell a 120 gb hard drive for $179.99

 

[Ennui]

Exactly. Am I really supposed to believe consoles are cheaper than buying a gaming PC? I bought a new 120GB just last month for $59.99. Its not like they aren't using the same EXACT hard drive technology in their consoles!

I bought a 250 gig for about $70 a couple weeks ago

 

[Stigmata]

I got a 320gig drive for $105 Canadian almost a year ago.

 

[VictimOfScience]

I didn't mean to go off topic, but I was talking about the Xbox 360. If you're selling an arbitrary peripheral for 2/3 the cost of the system, I would say that they're over selling that product just a tad. As stated above, you can get a 500 gb hard drive now days for $150.00, which doesn't really add up when M$ tries to sell a 120 gb hard drive for $179.99

Indeed. But when you don't allow other external HDDs to enter the party, you force consumers into a sort of stranglehold. They are good at that though--just look at the OS market. :E

 

[Kyorisu]

That's just it Sony and MS make a loss on their consoles and hence make everything else overpriced. The confusing part is the Ninendo Wii which is apparently making a profit per console, yet the extras are still expensive.

 

[Cole]

The confusing part is the Ninendo Wii which is apparently making a profit per console, yet the extras are still expensive.

Because Nintendo makes a profit on everything... I mean Nintendo only does games and game hardware. They can't afford to loose money on anything, whereas Microsoft and Sony have billions of $$ coming from other departments.

 

[Asuka]

120 gigs is a good size. 60 is alright. 20 is retarded small.