I bought my PS3 a couple months ago when the announced they were getting rid of the EE chip, but haven't really played it as my 360 was keeping me busy. Of course 3 days ago my 360 broke for the second time. While its on its way for repairs I've been playing a couple PS3 demos and beating a few of my PS2 games (MGS 3: Subsistence, RE4, Shadow of the Colossus...these are still great games...but they kinda hurt my eyes after playing HD). Anyway, its a nice diversion while the 360 is gone but I don't really see myself playing the PS3 too religiously until Ratchet & Clank (rental) MGS4, Unreal Tournament 3, and Killzone 2 hit the market. Right now I only buy multiplats on the 360 becaue of the gamerpoints.....ingenius on MS's part.
thats the only game i've ever done clan matches with and they were awesome. our clan tried to transition over to socom 3 but we lost a lot of people. the small maps were ok in socom 3...but its true that the maps were just too big and the fun of meeting someone in battle within 15 sec of the map beginning was lost. i'm hoping for a return to socom 2 again....and i already have my ps3 waiting for confrontations release (and i only have resistance to tide me over!)
So here is the deal. Even if you deleted everything on that harddrive and had it completely clean it still wouldn't register at 20 gb. This is the reason why. When manufacturers create hard drives they assume that 1000 kb makes 1 mb and 1000 mb makes 1 gb. If you know anything about computers you will know that all calculations are done by powers of 2. That means the closest to 1000 you can get would be 1024 (very common ram size). So in reality 1024 mb are in 1 GB instead of 1000. That means for every gb you are losing over 24 mb (and this goes all the way down to bytes....so its not exactly 24). On a "20 gb" model we are talking 20*24 = ~480 mb. You will never get a 20 gb on a 20 gb hard drive....even in computers.
Also, its formatted and Microsoft uses some for system files (everyone has already said that)
why exactly would you need a 2nd ps3 if you already have one? In case the 60 gb fails? From what I understand that is rather rare. A back up? If you get to the next generation in many years and the PS4 doesn't have it then.....stil...what is the point of a back up PS3? It seems like a waste of a lot of money for the sake of convenience of having one stored in the closet. My 2 cents.
haha...thats kind of a funny story. I get why you are mad but sometimes those corporate types can't see past their own noses. The scratched Halo 3 LEs is pretty well documented here on the internet and Microsoft has promised to replace the discs. It was something about the manufacturing process. Anyway, I'm glad you got it sorted out and the story gave me a lil chuckle (when i was in high school I worked for that hell hole)
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