New PlayStation 3 SKU Clears FCC

woopy just go buy a 120 gb hdd at bestbuy if you want that much space... i mean who really need 120 gb anyway

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i do. And don't buy from Bestbuy, they're a ripoff. :P But i do get what you're saying, what is the point in releasing all these new models with bigger HDDs. Well for one thing, it's kinda like a dick mesuring contest between them and Microsoft. A bigger HDD is just added bonus. Besides that, if you can lower the production costs to a point where it's cheaper to add in a 120gb drive and still have a lower price people are going to buy. Also, changing the size of the HDD makes it easier to differentiate. If you release a new product and want something to make it sound better you would put a unique identifier. For instance, the 60 and 20 gig versions both had the PS2 chip in there but were expensive, also they used a 65nm cell chip. The 40 and 80 gig had the ps2 chip removed for lower production costs and a 45nm chip for enhanced efficiency and power consumption. not to mention the differences between the 60 and the 20 ver. as well as the differences between the 80 and 40 version. So if you want to release a slightly better version and want people to know it's slightly better then you would have to give them some comparison. if they released a better version with an 80 gig hard drive, it wouldn't be easy to differentiate between the two and you would have to say something like, ps3 80gig 65nm cell chip and ps3 80gig 45nm cell chip but not a lot of people would understand that and it would just confuse them.

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I could have sworn SCE said something about "no more nre PS3 SKUs for s while" a couple of months ago. It confuses the consumer.

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Why cant they just tell us what it is? I like speculating, sure, but it gets really old, really fast.

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I've used over 80 gigs already on my ps3, but i put in a 200 gig hdd a while ago
so alls good :)

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If i may make an adjustment to smotpoker420's question.
What person who can't install a bigger hdd themselves needs 120gb?

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