http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=85580' $399. Not the best deal ever. 80GB one drops to $499. No word on the 60GB ones remaining.
Emu. Here, the 60GB is now reduced to $480 cdn. Nice to see that the US and Canadian prices are equal. Let's see MS reduce the 360's price to $350, now that we're worth more than the Americans.
The 80GB contains the GS (graphics) portion of the PS2. It emulates the Emotion Engine (main cpu) and I guess the SPU too. The 60GB model basically has a PSTwo EE+GS chipset. Atleast this is what I've heard.
yeap, i m interested in the first batch. Namely 20gb and 60GB US models with complete PS2 b/c support. If only I could afford one.
Well Johnny, Sony's doing us a favour and taking away the PS2 emulation, and you still don't see the point? Just imagine: You buy a brand-new PS3, knowing and loving the fact that there are no games for it, only to watch Blu-ray movies, and WHAM! comes in little Tom with a Ps2 game at hand and pops it in ..and it plays. What a disaster! Now little Tom can't mess up with your Blu-ray loving in favour of some PS2 game. Guess i should go to become a PR for Sony or something now ;p
You know what is sad? I owned the PS3 since about January of last year, and I only have one game for it: Resistance. I have yet to buy or even watch blu-ray movies on it due to the lack of good quality packages out there/high price point, and all I will normally use it for is a PS2. The only game I am even looking forward to is Ratchet and Clank, and I may be getting that for Christmas.
Got a 60GB PS3 sitting at a WalMart near me, but no money to get it. It may be sitting there for a while...they also have Lost Planet Collectors Edition and had for quite some time Perfect Dark Zero Collectors Edition, despite most of the other WalMart's no longer having those (go figure).
Sorry, but I just can't work out why anyone would pay more than $100 for the console. It only has 2 games that are worth playing that aren't running on the (cheaper) 360 either faster, better-looking, both, with online extras, and all with rumble. The new one can't even run PS2 games, so you can't even make use of your existing library and you're stuck with those 2 decent games for literally months. Yes I know most Xbox games don't work on the 360, but since it has so many AAA games (and most of them exclusives at that), BC isn't really needed. And don't start listing good PS3 games like Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six etc. because the 360 versions are all vastly superior, despite the PS3 offering "1.8 teraflops" of performance vs. the "Xbox 1.5's" "meagre" 1.0 teraflops of performance (nice one, Sony!). Sony's fucked up so hard this generation, and doing so at a time when the market was theirs for the taking shows nothing but an extreme level of incompetence and complacency. Couldn't have happened to a nicer firm. =) Better luck with the PS4, Sony. Some tips: * Fire your marketing department. 10 times over. * Rumble. * Media that doesn't skyrocket the price for no reason other than to act as a trojan horse. * Lose the arrogance that seeps from each and every one of your press releases. Companies that are being gang-raped by elephants in the market-place simply have nothing to be arrogant about! * SOME GAMES THAT ARE WORTH PLAYING!!!!! TTYL!
well it tells you something when they bundle in a movie with the new model instead of a game. They're just going to try to dump these off as cheap bluray players for the immediate future. The games will eventually arrive.
So let me get this straight, Sony are ditching the current 60Gb PS3 and replacing it with a PS3 with 80Gb, however they are removing the PS2 EE and replacing it with some kind of half arsed EE emulator. And do they charge more for this new console?? Or is the extra 20Gb to suck up to us because they have resorted to an EE emulator? Can't we buy the 60Gb version (with the real PS2 EE) and just plug in a 80Gb new drive? Or does it have to be a special Sony one?
The harddrives are just 2.5" laptop SATA style drives I think. You don't need one Sony sells you. So if you want the best, you buy a 60GB PS3 since it has the EE+GS (PS2 chipset). Next would be the 20GB which also has the EE+GS. If you can't, you get the 80GB which has the PS2's GS graphics chipset and then the system emulates the EE cpu, which supposively works pretty well. And then you have the 40GB at the bottom where you are fucked. I'm sure the average consumer can understand this by looking at the box on the shelf. I would certainly prefer a PS3 with EE+GS, but I'm not that concerned. Hell I only own a handful of PS2 games now anyway.
Any 2.5 sata hdd will work just fine,when you thow in a new hdd in a ps3 it automatly detects it and promotes you to fomat.
Good job I got the 60Gb version then, although it's still got 47Gb free! Actually it's not a good job I got the 60Gb PS3, I shoulf have got a Wii...... I miss Mario from my NES/SNES days! Good job they invented emulators!
You highlight it as if it's the most important thing in the world to you. Here have a biscuit. Now... how much of the hard drive have you used? And how much have you used once you get rid of all the big arse movie files? :nod:
