I've had my ps3 since about summer of '08, and it has always been loyal (no f-ups or anything), but its hard drive is only 40 gig which used to be plenty, but now that a lot of games need to be installed, and my library keeps growing i'm forced to constantly delete stuff to make room for other, newer, less old stuff. The first time I maxed out my hard drive, it was mostly because i had crammed over 1600 songs and more than 300 pictures on it, and since very few games have the ability to implement the songs from my library into games, deleting them didn't bother me that much. A coupleof months went by before I inevitably had to start getting rid of something else. This time it was my demos that had to go.

You see, I have always enjoyed keeping all my games instead of trading them in (which i know a lot of people do). I get some weird satisfaction from having a large pile of games (even demos) at my disposal, and even though I may not ever play a lot of them again, I like having, if nothing else, the opportunity to revisit some old classics if I feel like it, but I digress.

So, after deleting over 10 demos, I had freed up enough space on my hard drive, and was ready to fill it up once more. The last game I played that required an install, was Heavy Rain. It told me I needed somewhere around 2gb of free space to proceed, and so I had to delete some more stuff. After uninstalling Batman AA, I had cleared just enough to install Heavy Rain, but I decided to get rid of some other things as well so this problem wouldn't occur in the near future.

Yesterday, my friend and I was bored and decided to play some good ol' GTA4, but guess what; I deleted it over a month ago.

The real issue for me isn't that they built my machine with a small hard drive, but rather the fact that fixing it is very expensive. Not only would I have to buy a hard drive compatible with the ps3, but if I wanted to keep my data (saves, trophies etc), I would have to invest in an external hard drive which would be a lot of effort for something as simple as not having to delete Sh*t every two months.