I watched the presentation, and IMO, the drive is bigger than I thought, but it's still a good size for something external like this. But it matches the Xbox 360's design a lot better than I thought too. The only downfall is not stating the price. I think once they heard the PS3 pricing details that they decided to not share their price quite yet. As long as it's kept under $200 ($150 or lower being even sweeter), I'm definately going to get one. And I'm sure $200 and under is going to make a lot of people happy for hi-def movies.
MS also is smart about this because if Blu-ray happens to win down the line, MS isn't stuck with an internal drive. All they have to do is release an external Blu-ray drive for movies. But if Sony's Blu-ray loses, they are literally screwed.
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Tyler @ May 9th 2006 8:36PM
I watched the presentation, and IMO, the drive is bigger than I thought, but it's still a good size for something external like this. But it matches the Xbox 360's design a lot better than I thought too. The only downfall is not stating the price. I think once they heard the PS3 pricing details that they decided to not share their price quite yet. As long as it's kept under $200 ($150 or lower being even sweeter), I'm definately going to get one. And I'm sure $200 and under is going to make a lot of people happy for hi-def movies.
MS also is smart about this because if Blu-ray happens to win down the line, MS isn't stuck with an internal drive. All they have to do is release an external Blu-ray drive for movies. But if Sony's Blu-ray loses, they are literally screwed.