New PS3 Slim Has Large Hard Drive, Wii U Doesn't But Supports External Hard Drive

Eh, the Playstation Store vs eShop comparison is a valid point, I agree. But I still think Reggie Fils-Aime has a better point than John Koller. The price of external storage *is* plummeting. You can already buy 1 terabyte (or larger!) drives for less than $100. Putting a proprietary hard drive in a console increases the price more than you'd pay to get an equivalently sized third-party drive.

On the other hand, I have to admit I have a pretty screwed perspective. I'm not a big downloader, so I don't need huge hard drives in my consoles. My 160GB PS3 is still mostly empty, even after 1.5 years of gaming.

Unless there's another flood in Thailand that wiped out the world's supply of hard drives.

My filled with music I downloaded on the net, but I digress the 360 basemodel got 4 gig that's a nice f u c k you from microsoft

"the cost of that type of [external[ storgae", and "let the conusmer buy..." in the third paragraph. I can guess conusmer is some brain fart involving consumer and customer.

Also, external storage kits, bought complete or with HDD seperate, will run you well over $50 for anything above 250GB. Really, it is a nice feature for people who already use external storage devices, and much cheaper than propreitary HDDs, but on the other side, it's not really a great deal overall when you only offer such small storage options that even one game may not fit, and still charge a pretty penny for it.

I don't like that the PS3 cannot read external NTFS drives.

I know, that's a pain, but it's pretty easily fixed with free partitioning software.

I own a PS3 which I've only used 4 or 5 times a few years ago. I use a 360 as my main system.

as I've heard it: you could easily swap out the Hard Disk drive of the PS3 with an off the shelf HDD meant for a PC. I'm surprised there is no HDD-less PS3 which simply lets you go buy one. Xbox was sold HDD less recently and you were given the choice which type of storage you'd buy even though you were limited to a 16GB flash drive or the Microsoft 250GB HDD.