Since you are leaning towards a ps3, you will want to have a good size hard drive. As the previous person said you do want to have the ability to store movies and such, but there is one important thing though. Blu ray holds a lot of info, but the drawback is the load speed. Data comes off of it fast enough for movies but not in terms of games. So, sony said, and all developers, decided that the game should be installed to make the load screens faster (or the same speed as the 360). The bad thing is that these games do indeed take up a crap load of space, MGS4 takes about 4 gigabytes and Assassins Creed takes about 2 gigabytes and don't forget saved games (they might be 2 megs at most) and newer games coming out might be the same or more on average. Despite the fact that you can hook up the ps3 to a hard drive, the games have to be installed on the drive in the ps3. Fortunately you can delete the file easily, but to play it again you will have to reinstall the game. Nadim -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of farli Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:00 PM To: PLUG discussion list Subject: OT: Any gamers? I have a Wii and I am thinking about getting another console. Im leaning to a PS3 because of its blue ray player. My question is why would anyone need 60G (the Xbox 360) or 80G of storage? tia jim --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3408 (20080902) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3408 (20080902) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss