Translation please: "PlayStation 3"をご利用中の皆さまへ重要なお知らせ

Since PS2 is getting an update as well 10GB to 19GB possible new expansion maybe to be announced at Vanafest?

You guys should really know better than to get your hopes up like that.

Why else would Sony update the hard drives to increase the partition size of FFXI for 9 gigs? That's a huge amount of space, especially for a game that's been essentially on auto-pilot.

There's a big something coming down the pipeline, and we'll see it at the end of the month.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to get my hopes up about a Dissidia version of FFXI...

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Originally Posted by Keyln

Why else would Sony update the hard drives to increase the partition size of FFXI for 9 gigs? That's a huge amount of space, especially for a game that's been essentially on auto-pilot.

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Because, at this point in the PS2's lifespan, there's no reason not to. Even if there is to be a new PS2 game published, the odds of it using the HDD are essentially zero. Meanwhile, Sony has an idea of what HDD usage would look like in a worst-case scenario; I'm betting 21 GiB (40 GiB - FFXI) is just about enough to install all published HDD-using games on the same PS2.

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There's a big something coming down the pipeline, and we'll see it at the end of the month.

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And where, praytell, is "Super Big Awesome Game-Saving Surprise" slated on the Vana'fest schedule? Will it be during the cosplay contest, or the music concert?

(On a side note, if the devs mention XIV at the Vana'fest, and the context is anything but "We're sorry we've been forsaking you in favor of..." then I hope the attendees will have brought torches and pitchforks.)

just say GB and MB. Nobody is going to accept or regularly use the new abbriviation intended to remove ambiguity between the different definitions of what a GB and MB is. It was well intentioned, but shorter abbriviation > longer abbriviation, even if it's politically incorrect.

(I believe it's supposed to be where 1024 KiB = 1 MiB / 1024 MiB = 1 GiB whereas MB is supposed to be 1000 KB = 1 MB / 1000 MB = 1 GB- but for years they've been essentially interchangable aside from being abused by hard drive manufacturers to make it look like a drive has more capacity than it really does when Windows uses the MiB system instead of the MB system)

[end geeky nerdy offtopickyness]

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Originally Posted by Dsherman

I'm really not sure what you are referring to if you are talking about my post.

I can only guess you have mis-read the post. The drive size on a real PS2 has always been 40gig.

The post I made refers to the emulated PS2 HDD size on a PS3. Look very carefully at the last character of that last acronym. It is a 3. As in THREE.

That emulated drive size was indeed increased by 9gig (from 12gig to 21gig) by a PS3 system update that was released by Sony around the time of my first post in this thread which was done on February 7, 2012. It will have only happened on PS3 systems that have PS2 backward compatibility and also have FFXI installed.

That portion of the expansion had NOTHING to do with a real PS2.

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no, my response was not about your post, your post was clear, my response was about this post

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Originally Posted by Zumi

What are they going to do with the original PS2 where the partition size is hard coded at 10gb?

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that idea is misinformation, none of the PS2 models were ever hard coded to force a partition size, if anything it might have been a firmware issue with some of the drives, but that is something easily fixed, and what you believe about that was probably Sony enforcing their partition size rule not a hardware code thing, infact as far as I'm aware the only system that had anything close to a hard coded partition size was the original xbox, you could not get around that without a hardware or software mod, but the PS2 never had that issue