PS2 Network Adapter and 40GB for $39.95?????

Originally posted by Videoholic
Does the ethernet adapter really come with a HD?  I was looking around yesterday and I saw some info about the adapter, but it mentioned no where a HD.

No. The HDD is seperate from the online adapter.

any news on when they will anounce the hardrive cost??

Does anyone else think that Sony has created themselves some problems by selling the ethernet/modem and hdd seperate? If they kept them together they only had two different setups to worry about, now they have regular ps2 owners, ps2 with connection and ps2 with connection and hdd to cater for, not to mention it might get a little confusing for the average joe who might wind up picking up a hdd without the adapter to get it on the net D:

-bd

Originally posted by bd
Does anyone else think that Sony has created themselves some problems by selling the ethernet/modem and hdd seperate? If they kept them together they only had two different setups to worry about, now they have regular ps2 owners, ps2 with connection and ps2 with connection and hdd to cater for, not to mention it might get a little confusing for the average joe who might wind up picking up a hdd without the adapter to get it on the net D:

-bd

I warned people, but they just dismissed me as a fanboy. Looky who was right....

Originally posted by EThugg



I warned people, but they just dismissed me as a fanboy. Looky who was right....

how were you right??? this is just some other forum member saying how sony screwed up, we\'ll see how it works out in the end

I think not everyone needs a network adaper or a hardrive. not all games are online you know?

and the hardrive in some cases would have some benefits that are not related to the network adapter, so it actually can be bought separatly, like in the case of some games making extra use of the hardrive for larger worlds.

but it is true, the best use of the hardrive is with the network adapter, to download demo games or movies.

another use of the hardisk is for the development on PS2 with linux ( but i am not sure if this will release stateside or not ).

as others have said, the price of PS2 will reduce, propably around 30% if not more. and this will make it in the same range with x-box ( 300$ with network and hardisk ). and it\'s true that sony will have online games this year, while x-box is planning for 2002.

Originally posted by Bozco


how were you right??? this is just some other forum member saying how sony screwed up, we\'ll see how it works out in the end

How was I not right? 3 different configurations = less support for anything but the basic configuration (the basic PS2). If they packed the hdd and adapter together, they might have had a shot, but splintered 3 ways like this, few people will get them (in the extreme mainstream) and since the extreme mainstream gamers make up the bulk of most developers profits, they wont bother with support of the peripherals. Sure, some games will, but not most.

Originally posted by akramh
 
as others have said, the price of PS2 will reduce, propably around 30% if not more. and this will make it in the same range with x-box ( 300$ with network and hardisk ).

Anyone expecting a bigger than $50 drop in price will be very dissapointed. It won\'t happen. Sony\'s very c0cky, and think\'s the DVD playback is equal to XB\'s HDD and Ethernet, so they will easily feel they don\'t need a bigger price drop.

Yeah, I agree that sony are underestimating the xbox so they won\'t be dropping the drop any more than £50.