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Sony’s PS3 hard drive upgradeable from day one

If you fill up the hard drive in your PS3, just slide in a new one. Awesome.

 Sony is hoping to use the PS3 to get you into Blu-ray movies, as well as to sell you media downloads through their online service. Well okee doke, I'm all about purchasing things from the comfort of my couch. Of course, the hard drive may fill up faster than we'd like, and then what do we do? Microsoft showed us with the Xbox 360 that when companies make use proprietary drives they can get away with robbery like charging $100 for a 20GB drive. As a result, I was a bit fearful about Sony's plans

Oh. Wow. You mean I can just take out their hard drive and put in another one? Like, from a store? Sweet. Who thought Sony would make upgrades such a simple process? For people buying the $500 system, it's great news that they can just use another hard drive at a later date if they want to move into more storage.

Well done, Sony. I never thought you'd be so cool.

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