PS3 ships without hard drive

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According to Famitsu Magazine Sony’s strategy for the hard drive option is yet to be decided. Sony representative Chatani said he felt that people would want to upgrade to higher capacity drives, which could basically mean that a hard drive will not be a part of the PlayStation 3 launch package after all.
tha means another 80 buck's outta pocket.

 

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and now they are saying no built in router. talk about scaling back.

According to a story in the 6/20 bi-weekly issue of Nikkei Electronics, SCE originally intended to include router functionality with the PS3 but the plans have now been abandoned due to the cost of a built in router would be too high. The original plan was to use the three gigabit Ethernet sockets (one WAN and two LAN).