Is sony upsetting its customers with multiple hard drive options?

ok one problem ive always seen with sony is that thye issue a lot of ps3 versions and hard drive options that cnfuses customers

(i was confused bwteen the mgs4 80gb and the core 80gb, seing as how they are very different)

now my point is, when the 120 ps3 slim came out, people bought it quickly, then just a few weeks later, a 250gb version was rumored and now is true.

if you were one of the early adopters of the 120gb slim, would you be upset if you found out a new one with more than double your hard drive would only cost 50 bucks more? assume you dont know about changing hd's.

i dont have a ps3 yet, but to me, i would be very angry. i see that as screwing with early adopters, your thoughts on this?

I have an old 80gb and I am not even upset about owning console that is more expensive than the news ones and less hard drive space. Why regret for something so unimportant?

No more than MS is upsetting their customers with different HDD options.

Why would you be upset? Part of Marketing is to change things up to generate interest in your product. You bought it first and you have been playing it wayy before the person who bought his system has. Plus the price of new hard drives aren't that much to begin with. I bought a launch 60gb and I don't get mad at new revisions.

If it bothers anynoe that much you can buy a 250 2.5" for around 50$

I guess Sony thought that the majority of buyers would be happy with the 120gb and pushed it out for Oct1st.
Newer models came of the production line when they where ready?

Not everyone will need 250. So they caterd for the majority 1st?

Umm, I think the Wii is the only system this Gen that doesn't do exactly this. Besides, with a PS3 you can go buy any size notebook HDD and slap it in there - does that make 360 gamers "upset" that they have to pay MS premiums for undersized HDD's? I know my 20GB launch 360 with 13.7GB useable internal space couldn't hold more than a couple of demo's, lucky for me it RROD'ed and now I have an RE ed. Elite (but the change in HDD size confused and upset me :roll: )

Seriously, if you should be mad at anyone it should be microsoft for selling 150gb hard drives for over 100 dollars when you can get a 250gb hard drive for the PS3 for only 50 dollars.

Swapping hard drives on the PS3 is almost as easy as loading an NES cartridge. If someone gets in a wad over changing the HDD, they probably need an instruction manual for charging their controllers, too.

I think its ridiculous how many SKUs they keep making, I mean jesus. How many have we had now??

With that said, I still only own Playsation consoles lol.

No more than MS is upsetting their customers with different HDD options.

Puckhog04

Yeah, because everyone hates options.

ok one problem ive always seen with sony is that thye issue a lot of ps3 versions and hard drive options that cnfuses customers

(i was confused bwteen the mgs4 80gb and the core 80gb, seing as how they are very different)

now my point is, when the 120 ps3 slim came out, people bought it quickly, then just a few weeks later, a 250gb version was rumored and now is true.

if you were one of the early adopters of the 120gb slim, would you be upset if you found out a new one with more than double your hard drive would only cost 50 bucks more? assume you dont know about changing hd's.

i dont have a ps3 yet, but to me, i would be very angry. i see that as screwing with early adopters, your thoughts on this?

KittyHeart

This isn't a Sony problem, this is a Console problem. All three system's have different Memory problems that are Not ideal. While I coudl go into all of it in one of my monsterous posts, just know that I do agree, it sucks.

Unfortunately, memory is a tricky issue, LUCKILY you don't have to play horrible prices for Sony and Nintendo's solutions.

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Also, what about launch 20gig 360's for $400? That's on your hit list, right?

Finally, I have two launch 60gig PS3's, and I wouldn't trade them EVER. I think Early Adopters got it good, as I think the Launch PS3's were the best PS3's.

I easily upgrade one of them to a 500gig though ($70 almost two years ago).

ok one problem ive always seen with sony is that thye issue a lot of ps3 versions and hard drive options that cnfuses customers

(i was confused bwteen the mgs4 80gb and the core 80gb, seing as how they are very different)

now my point is, when the 120 ps3 slim came out, people bought it quickly, then just a few weeks later, a 250gb version was rumored and now is true.

if you were one of the early adopters of the 120gb slim, would you be upset if you found out a new one with more than double your hard drive would only cost 50 bucks more? assume you dont know about changing hd's.

i dont have a ps3 yet, but to me, i would be very angry. i see that as screwing with early adopters, your thoughts on this?

KittyHeart

Nope, in fact I would be glad when I found out that I'm not restricted to buy X Company's overpriced HD.

ok one problem ive always seen with sony is that thye issue a lot of ps3 versions and hard drive options that cnfuses customers

(i was confused bwteen the mgs4 80gb and the core 80gb, seing as how they are very different)

now my point is, when the 120 ps3 slim came out, people bought it quickly, then just a few weeks later, a 250gb version was rumored and now is true.

if you were one of the early adopters of the 120gb slim, would you be upset if you found out a new one with more than double your hard drive would only cost 50 bucks more? assume you dont know about changing hd's.

i dont have a ps3 yet, but to me, i would be very angry. i see that as screwing with early adopters, your thoughts on this?

KittyHeart

No. I've never heard of anybody being upset about this. First of all, the upcoming 250 gig is going to cost more money. Second, the price of HDDs drops so fast that if you CARE about having a bigger HDD, it is quick, easy and cheap to just buy your own and install it yourself. That's what I did. I bought the newer, non-BC 40 gig. It filled up quicker than I'd like so I bought a 250 gig and installed it myself.

I think its ridiculous how many SKUs they keep making, I mean jesus. How many have we had now??

With that said, I still only own Playsation consoles lol.

good_sk8er7

I think this is a ridiculous complaint. Sony has only ever had TWO versions of their console available at any given time. ANd I see ZERO indication that customers consider bigger HDDs a new "SKU". The features and capabilities are the same for ALL the consoles, with the exception of the launch models which had BC. But I think it is stupid to consider each new HDD upgrade a new "sku". Unless the features or abilities change, it is the exact same model with more HDD space.

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I think its ridiculous how many SKUs they keep making, I mean jesus. How many have we had now??

With that said, I still only own Playsation consoles lol.

ZIMdoom

I think this is a ridiculous complaint. Sony has only ever had TWO versions of their console available at any given time. ANd I see ZERO indication that customers consider bigger HDDs a new "SKU". The features and capabilities are the same for ALL the consoles, with the exception of the launch models which had BC. But I think it is stupid to consider each new HDD upgrade a new "sku". Unless the features or abilities change, it is the exact same model with more HDD space.

ok one problem ive always seen with sony is that thye issue a lot of ps3 versions and hard drive options that cnfuses customers

(i was confused bwteen the mgs4 80gb and the core 80gb, seing as how they are very different)

now my point is, when the 120 ps3 slim came out, people bought it quickly, then just a few weeks later, a 250gb version was rumored and now is true.

if you were one of the early adopters of the 120gb slim, would you be upset if you found out a new one with more than double your hard drive would only cost 50 bucks more? assume you dont know about changing hd's.

i dont have a ps3 yet, but to me, i would be very angry. i see that as screwing with early adopters, your thoughts on this?

KittyHeart

I just thought of this, but I was upset when I just bought the Xbox 360 then a month later the Elite came out with HDMI output. Now that is something to get upset about. Sony hasn't upset me this gen yet.

I have a launch 60gb PS3. Larger HDDs included for less money into the current PS3s doesn't bother me a bit. I've still not run out of space on my HDD and thats with about 700 MP3s, hundreds of 8 megapixel family photos, a few demos, well over a dozen PSN titles, HOME, The new Folding@Home app, several hundred Rockband songs, all my saves since launch and any needed installs for games I've played in the last 12 months. AND I have 10-12 gb (can't remember exact amount) locked away in a PS2 HDD partition I haven't used in 2 years, but am too lazy to reformat to remove it :P

And besides, the great thing about the PS3's HDD setup is if I want more, I can get on Newegg.com and get whatever size HDD suits my needs, and for far less than the competition would charge me for a new drive.

i'm surprised at the answers here

you guys dont get upset if you buy a 120gb ps3, only to have a 250gb version confirmed les than 2 months later, for only 50 dollars more? :|

i'm surprised at the answers here

you guys dont get upset if you buy a 120gb ps3, only to have a 250gb version confirmed les than 2 months later, for only 50 dollars more? :|

KittyHeart

Why be upset when you can change the harddrive yourself and even get bigger ones

i'm surprised at the answers here

you guys dont get upset if you buy a 120gb ps3, only to have a 250gb version confirmed les than 2 months later, for only 50 dollars more? :|

KittyHeart

You could say the same for the 360 120gig Elite.

i'm surprised at the answers here

you guys dont get upset if you buy a 120gb ps3, only to have a 250gb version confirmed les than 2 months later, for only 50 dollars more? :|

KittyHeart

no.

and besides:
1. people can easily upgrade the hdd with any driveon the market. you cannot do that with the 360. repeat: you cannot do that with the 360, but you have to purchase expensive ones.
2. micrsoft also has plenty of sku's and will also be releasing a 250gb version, just like the ps3.

:|

you can pay 70$ and get a 500gb for your ps3, problem solved.

i'm surprised at the answers here

you guys dont get upset if you buy a 120gb ps3, only to have a 250gb version confirmed les than 2 months later, for only 50 dollars more? :|

KittyHeart

Nope. Here, only $5 more, not a big deal.

i'm surprised at the answers here

you guys dont get upset if you buy a 120gb ps3, only to have a 250gb version confirmed les than 2 months later, for only 50 dollars more? :|

KittyHeart

Of course not. Anyone that has ever been an early console adopter knows that over time, console prices wll go down and new features or pack ins will be included. Always been that way.

Besides, for $55 I could get myself a 250 gb hdd and slap it in if it met that much to me. Then, I have 120 gb backup drive and a couple extra months of enjoying my console instead of waiting endlessly for a better deal... all for 5 dollars.

*Edit* Way to beat me to the link, Asylumni :D

Having more options is always better. Who cares about how they handle their SKU's, etc.

If there is some perspective of getting confused the current multi-optioned SKUs then it would be one where the consumer himself doesn't want to bother being a smart consumer and consider all options before laying down the money, and would rather have the corporations give them one single expensive piece of item without any other choices to buy except for that. And if sony is upsetting anyone, then those people for sure wouldn't want to get a 360 either due to the WAYYY overpriced HDDs.

Not intending to offend TC, but that would just be the case.

No. And I know this is a response to the "Is MS upsetting its customers with expensive add-ons." The expensive add-ons are much worse.

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i'm surprised at the answers here

you guys dont get upset if you buy a 120gb ps3, only to have a 250gb version confirmed les than 2 months later, for only 50 dollars more? :|

santoron

Of course not. Anyone that has ever been an early console adopter knows that over time, console prices wll go down and new features or pack ins will be included. Always been that way.

Besides, for $55 I could get myself a 250 gb hdd and slap it in if it met that much to me. Then, I have 120 gb backup drive and a couple extra months of enjoying my console instead of waiting endlessly for a better deal... all for 5 dollars.

*Edit* Way to beat me to the link, Asylumni :D

To all those waiting on the 250 gb PS3. You do realize that $100 bucks can buy you a $250 gb 2.5 sata HDD, plus you can keep the 120 hdd for whatever.

ok one problem ive always seen with sony is that thye issue a lot of ps3 versions and hard drive options that cnfuses customers

(i was confused bwteen the mgs4 80gb and the core 80gb, seing as how they are very different)

now my point is, when the 120 ps3 slim came out, people bought it quickly, then just a few weeks later, a 250gb version was rumored and now is true.

if you were one of the early adopters of the 120gb slim, would you be upset if you found out a new one with more than double your hard drive would only cost 50 bucks more? assume you dont know about changing hd's.

i dont have a ps3 yet, but to me, i would be very angry. i see that as screwing with early adopters, your thoughts on this?

To all those waiting on the 250 gb PS3. You do realize that $100 bucks can buy you a $250 gb 2.5 sata HDD, plus you can keep the 120 hdd for whatever.

De_Bears

No more than MS is upsetting their customers with different HDD options.

Puckhog04

I just bought myself a 500GB harddrive for my PS3. Now my ancient PS3 that can play PS2 games is better than them all.

i'm surprised at the answers here

you guys dont get upset if you buy a 120gb ps3, only to have a 250gb version confirmed les than 2 months later, for only 50 dollars more? :|

[QUOTE="Puckhog04"]

No more than MS is upsetting their customers with different HDD options.

slvrraven9

360 storage configurations:

20, 60, 120 or 250 GB hard drive, 64, 256 or 512 MB memory cards, 256 or 512 MB on-board (later models)

Not to mention the Core and Pro models without then with HDMI.

[QUOTE="slvrraven9"][QUOTE="Puckhog04"]

No more than MS is upsetting their customers with different HDD options.

asylumni

360 storage configurations:

20, 60, 120 or 250 GB hard drive, 64, 256 or 512 MB memory cards, 256 or 512 MB on-board (later models)

Not to mention the Core and Pro models without then with HDMI.

20(?), 60, 40, 80, 80, 120, 250 and no i dont think were counting the memory cards as different CONSOLE models, theyre just memory cards and really dont count in this debate.

ok so it seems as sony only has it by two i guess. including MS's arcade model, i was mistaken. not a big difference at all...

ok one problem ive always seen with sony is that thye issue a lot of ps3 versions and hard drive options that cnfuses customers

(i was confused bwteen the mgs4 80gb and the core 80gb, seing as how they are very different)

now my point is, when the 120 ps3 slim came out, people bought it quickly, then just a few weeks later, a 250gb version was rumored and now is true.

if you were one of the early adopters of the 120gb slim, would you be upset if you found out a new one with more than double your hard drive would only cost 50 bucks more? assume you dont know about changing hd's.

i dont have a ps3 yet, but to me, i would be very angry. i see that as screwing with early adopters, your thoughts on this?

KittyHeart

I don't see why people would be. Go buy a $100 250HDD and sell the 120 for $50. You break even AND you get a PS3 slim early.

No. And I know this is a response to the "Is MS upsetting its customers with expensive add-ons." The expensive add-ons are much worse.

jakehouston88

is there that thread?

i have neve seen it or read it