[QUOTE="alexfla"]Of course a 4GB PS3 model is not possible because many games require installs. This is another way that Blu-ray is keeping the PS3 too expensive. Even now that the drive prices have gone way down, the fact that installs are required, translates to hard drives are required and this keeps costs up.

santoron

I know I'm just feeding the troll, but you do know that a 20gb laptop HDD would be dirt cheap if bought in mass by a manufacturer like Sony, right? I mean, you can get a 120 gb laptop HDD for like 40 bucks on newegg, and that's a markup price for end consumers.... You have to know this, don't you?

A HDD large enough to accommodate game saves and several large installs wouldn't be a primary factor in keeping PS3 prices high... that's just nonsense.

Apparently a lot of online portions of games require hard drive and won't let you with flash memory, so I would say terrible deal. if fixed I would say decent deal, still not great, better off paying the extra 100 dollars.

Diviniuz

The $2000.00 gaming PC is cheaper to me in this crazy upside down world you created in this thread that your suggestion is a good idea.Jynxzor

[QUOTE="gamecubepad"]

You guys are tripping. I just won a 4GB Slim, and it's an incredible piece of hardware for $200. Easily the best deal on the market.

What's with people acting like you need more than 4GB? Aside from optional game installs, 4GB is more than sufficient.

dovberg

Of course if you want to wait three times as long for loading times, no demos and no other form of DLC.

Your poll screams fanboy. I would say no based on the recent revelations that 4gig users can't play online coop Halo and other games due to Msofts unreasonable demands to purchase a hard drive.

kuu2

Do having a game console with no wifi, no hard drive, and still having to pay $50 a year for online is a fantastic deal? You can't even play like 1/3 of the games out there (at least properly) without an expensive MS hard drive, one that comes cheaper if it comes with the 360.

TC, you cannot possibly be serious in any way shape or form in saying the arcade is a good deal.

SPYDER0416

[QUOTE="alexfla"]

Overall it turned out as a very inexpensive and pleasant upgrade experience. Most people on this forum try to paint this horrid picture of doom just to criticize a system they don't own.

Pug-Nasty

That's a pleasant upgrade experience? I bought a 320 gig hdd off newegg for 70 bucks and that's all it took to upgrade my ps3. I'm looking at 750 gig hdds right now, or soon. I more than 4 gigs of wallpapers on my hdd, about 30 gigs of music, some videos.

4 gigs is terrible, and they had no reason, other than continuing to price gouge their consumers, for not finally putting in a basic laptop drive in their new redesign.

used to have SFC but gave it away to my cousins and I think they trashed it.funsohng

That doesn't play US games. Are you in Japan?

I think the current 199 Wii configuration is the best, as it comes with two games and Wii Motion Plus. It also has built in Wireless, free (though rudimentary) online, free use of Netflix (for Netflix subscribers, of course), 100% backwards compatibility, built in storage, SD card support, choice of color, and additional features for Nintendo DS owners.savebattery

[QUOTE="gamecubepad"]

[QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"]Its not the space that's a problem. Its that there are literally game features you can't use, because there is no HDD. Even if there is no logical reason you'd need an HDD.RogueShodown

It has a 4GB HDD. What features are we talking about? FM3's extra content is the only exception I could think of, but even then that would fit.

We're talking about the "best deal around" though, it's definitely the Slim. Once you have a chance to hold one and use it, all previous 360's seem archaic. All that cutting edge tech for the price of a Wii. Crazy stuff.