Why does anyone buy a 40gb or 80gb PS3 anyway? I thought you could, unlike the Xbox proprietary bs, just swap the hard drive with a little effort. Any technical person, such as those who read this website, probably have a larger (100+ gb) hard drive sitting around not doing much. If and when I were to buy a PS3, I'd go for the 20 and save $120 on 60gb less space and just go get some cheaper-per-gb drive like a 120 gig or use an extra from one of my computers.

Besides that, why should the consumer even have to pay for a hard drive in their console??? Its main point, especially on the 360 which I do own, is just to be filled with DRMed movies and tv shows which I can only watch on my 360 and which I have to pay for, as well. They ought to give huge drives away so people like me who think its awesome to just download some show or movie for a couple bucks will actually have the space to do so. I ran out of space very quickly on my 20gb hard drive and while that shiny new 120gb would be nice, its also $180 and would only enable me to spend more money at Microsoft's media store. 

Not like current game saves need more than a few kilobytes, a few megs at most. Video, on the other hand, especially HD takes boatloads of space, but I don't feel like buying the hard drive so I can have the privilege of filling it up with more purchases from MS- The only thing that space is good for on a console.

I wonder if this "nugget" of info from Dean Takahashi of The San Jose Mercury News.

I wonder if this is the same Dean Takahashi that has 2 Xbox360 books out...

Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution ISBN 0761537082, ISBN 978-0761537083 
The Xbox 360 Uncloaked: The Real Story Behind Microsoft's Next-Generation Video Game Console ISBN 0977784215, ISBN 978-0977784219


Talk about biased nonsense, the idiot can't even back his source up. Even worse, are hacks like The Inquirer even reporting this unfounded nonsense. Do you have any brains between you?

Give me a free HD-DVD player my wireless controller stuffs up for reasons best known to it's self. Then 2 days later the DVD-ROM drive on my console stuffs up the 2nd time in 10 months since purchase.

I want a free HD-DVD Drive for the problems this console has given me don't even play the dam thing much.