Well, you know, I tend to agree with everyone here.  Most of us go there just to have a good time.  And you know, when I am playing certain games, I don't mind a little "clean" trash talk..i.e. basketball, where trash talking has become part of the game.  But, there is a fine line between talking trash, and just being downright rude. 

And I do think it is quite pathetic when people trash talk when they are losing.

But that my friends is why there is the option to mute the player, leave negative feedback, or even file a complaint.  It will never be perfect in there, or else they wouldn't have to put in the ESRB warning that situations are different during online play.  And it will never be perfect as long as there are people that are there for anything other than just to have a good time.

 But there is good news though, as there is always good that comes with bad.  I have had the opportunity to become really good "online" friends with many people from all over the globe, and isn't that what the online gaming "community" is all about?

My computer harddrive is missing 10 GBs.  Even though I know it really isn't missing but it is just a 10GB hidden partition that has the full factory settings on it so that if I ever need to reformat my computer, I can do it straight off the harddrive.

The 10GB the ps3 is missing (45/55) is probably just space reserved for the system to use to store whatever it needs to store.

As for having 55 GB rather then 60 GB.  That is actually due to a problem with no standard in expressing what a GB is.  A real GB to a computer is 2^30 which is in base 2, but when selling a hard drive to the public, they like to use 10^9 as which is expressed in base 10 since humans think in base 10. 

2^30 = 1073741824 while 10^9 is 1000000000, with a difference of 73741824.  Since computers only talk in binary, when expressing space they use base 2, but when selling you a computer, people like to use base 10.  So in reality, if you get a 1GB harddrive, you are actually going to be missing 73 MB.  Multiply 73MB by 60, you will see you are missing around 4.3GB, which is makes it go down to 55.

So yea, you are getting a 60GB harddrive when you calculate it using base 10, but only a 55GB harddrive if you calculate it using base 2 like a computer does.

SageJMP

Yea...what he said....LOL :?

FAT32 used on PS3 don't format the entire drive, just like all PC HDdrives labeled 60 gb is never 60 it's always around 55, so your really only missing 10 gb. I assume the OS, and game download takes up 10 gb. pimperjones

You are right.  If you will check the hard drive in your PC, you may have bought it thinking that you were getting 320GB, but if you right click on the drive and check properties, you may find that you only have 295GB or so to play around with.

I currently have about 40GB left on my PS3.  That is with the GTHD Demo, Blast Factor Demo, Motorstorm Demo, and the Warhawk trailer.  Also, I have 3 PS2 memory cards and 4 PSOne memory cards transferred to the hard drive.  And not to mention two firmware and two game patches (Call of Duty 3 and R: FoM) which I am positive are probably saved there.  I also have had an Xbox360 for about a year now, and out of the box, it only had like 13GB of actual storage, even though it was sold as 20GB.  Currently, I have about 4GB left on it.

Hope this helps :-)

PSN and XBL Gamertag: Holywarriortim

Wii #....Heck if I know....too doggone long...LOL

Expensive Brick

That is what you will have if you lose power to the PS3 during a firmware upgrade.  Better invest in a good battery backup.  Nothing like a $600 paperweight.

You can check out my collection here:

http://videogamecollectors.com/gallery/My-Little-Game-Room

The pictures have not been updated to include my PS3 and Wii.  The TV is a 55" Hitachi Ultravision.  I have an Onkyo 6.1 channel surround sound system.