Early last week it was reported that Best Buy would no longer be carrying the 80GB model Sony PlayStation 3 due to a discontinue in supply. If the memo is true and applicable to other North American retailers than that will mean that only one model of the PS3 will exist in the North American market, the BWC-crippled 40GB version. An insider has said however that a new model could be coming, and soon.
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Originally posted by ericblood: I am new to all this Xbox and PS3. But please tell me why anyone would even need 40 gb hd let alone 120gb??. I have a 64mb mem card on the ps2 has tons of games on it. Why would you need 120 gb??
The PS3 installs data from games on the hard drive a lot, this makes load times faster, and in some cases eliminates them all together.
this is a lie.
What he said is very true Zippy it does install data on the PS3 HD which make load time a lot faster & some games don't have any load issues at all.That BD 2X drive don't work that fast nor will the 4x Sony have coming in the future but if they use the 4x with this method its only going to make the PS3 even faster.
Only partially, without installing the extra data the games loads about the same as other PS3 titles that have faster loading times, the majority of PS3 titles load slowly or as fast as the 360,lil by lil the PS3 is becoming better but at this point and time one can not say its loading faster for all or most new games.
Try a little experiment. Take a game that is on both systems. Compare load times and amount of detail. If you have more and better graphics with a slightly faster load time it's still better than the xbox. You can't even compare the two. Y?...... cuz the xbox doesn't have all the detail the PS3 has due to the lack of disc space. You can argue it all day but the reality is that the ps3 is and always will be faster. More games will come out with the hard drive option and you need the space in order to be able to play them.
Originally posted by ericblood: I am new to all this Xbox and PS3. But please tell me why anyone would even need 40 gb hd let alone 120gb??. I have a 64mb mem card on the ps2 has tons of games on it. Why would you need 120 gb??
The PS3 installs data from games on the hard drive a lot, this makes load times faster, and in some cases eliminates them all together.
this is a lie.
What he said is very true Zippy it does install data on the PS3 HD which make load time a lot faster & some games don't have any load issues at all.That BD 2X drive don't work that fast nor will the 4x Sony have coming in the future but if they use the 4x with this method its only going to make the PS3 even faster.
Only partially, without installing the extra data the games loads about the same as other PS3 titles that have faster loading times, the majority of PS3 titles load slowly or as fast as the 360,lil by lil the PS3 is becoming better but at this point and time one can not say its loading faster for all or most new games.
Try a little experiment. Take a game that is on both systems. Compare load times and amount of detail. If you have more and better graphics with a slightly faster load time it's still better than the xbox. You can't even compare the two. Y?...... cuz the xbox doesn't have all the detail the PS3 has due to the lack of disc space. You can argue it all day but the reality is that the ps3 is and always will be faster. More games will come out with the hard drive option and you need the space in order to be able to play them.
On some games, this issue will get worse in time, but on some PS3 titles load tiems are a pain, it just adds to the issues the PS3 has.
It just shows the lack of polish in the system, at least tis not starting to go down hill, he 360is going to have a worse time as things go on and the PS3 should be up to speed by mid/late 09.
I here the reason for the upgrade is there will be a software update
that will turn the PS3 into a DVR for movies. Thats why the increase
in size is nessasary. I have been waiting for price to drop to get
one but if this is the case I'll be getting the new one when it gets
released.
