New PS3 model announced.

It\'s coming for US for thanksgiving. Same features or lack thereof as the European model.

if it\'s true, I\'ll wait for a proper price drop of the 80gig model. BC is a major plus for me.

Look at XBOX360, it took them over a year since it initial launch for a price drop and they finally included a harddrive for both models...and no blu ray playback and the lower version doesn\'t even have an HDMI output but who is complaining?

Was no need fo rthe price drop .. The console was not outrageous with it\'s original price and sales were not all that dissapointing. Two things that Sony can\'t say.

[GmanJoe]

hard drives are a huge factor. All PS3s have HDs. You want to play a PS2 game? Get a PS2 Slim. It\'s cheap.

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/13396

[clips]

So let me just ask the question...and bare with me cause i\'m gettin\' tired, it\'s 3:00 am...is 40gig more than enough for game saves and things of that nature? Cause if it really isn\'t, i\'d rather wait for a price drop on the 80 gig....

It should be plenty...

More than enough. Hell, I don\'t have 40 gigs of INSTALLED games on my PC and I\'ve got around 15 games installed on it.

[Viper_Fujax]

yea, saved games are nothing.

360 you only have like 20GB, but for whatever reason only have like 12 to worth with, probably because of the dashboard and everything that\'s already on it, and i still have 7 GB\'s open after having the system for over a year.

The stuff that takes up the majority of room for me are demo\'s, which i end up deleting at one point or another anyway. I have no plans on downloading tv shows or movie rentals.

[MPTheory]

Basically, most games around 1.5gig. I have the 60gig and assume Ill be able to install a max of around 40 games with a little room to spare. I believe you can also plug in an external via USB if need be.

[Viper_Fujax]

1.5 gig for a saved game? Were talking about consoles, not installing games on a hard drive

my games range from 800kb (marvel: ultimate alliance) to 329 MB (gears of war). The arcade games i downloaded take up more room than saved games

and the only reason GoW is that high is because of the map packs

[MPTheory]

ahh, I misunderstood. I meant like fully downloaded games :P

[Viper_Fujax]

do they have a good amount of fully downloaded games for ps3?

I heard warhawk was but i havent heard how many others were

[MPTheory]

There are tons of mini games, demos and videos, but I believe Warhawk is the largest download as of right now. I know there are plenty more to come though. I know SOCOM will be downloadable.

[GmanJoe]

Corrections here:

first, the PS3 finally came out in November 2006 in Japan and U.S..  That would be nearly 1 year coming this November or about 1 more month to go.

2nd,  Sony slashed the PS3 60 GB model price tag down to $499, or $100 price drop in July, or about 8 months after its initial release in the U.S.  That\'s probably the fastest price drop ever done in a videogame console history.

Speaking of XBOX360, i think the original XBOX slashed its price tag from $300 to $200 after it initial launch for 6 months...so that might be a faster price drop than the ps3...

Yeah....was gonna say. Xbox was the fastest. DS took only 2 months to drop their price by $20.