FF14 on the new 12 GB SSD PS3?

[Andrien]

You can install just about any standard 2.5″ SATA hard drive into it. Of course this also means that you can install any SSD, which uses the same 2.5″

in short, you can buy any cheap ps3, and just swap in a large hdd or ssd that is 2.5"

[Rau]

best thing is probably buy an SSD separately and throw it in the PS3 like that.

[Akira_Tenshi]

That console was designed for casual use. The audience of FF 14 isn't likely to buy that model. If they do however, changing the HDD isn't difficult.

[Reika]

The game is going to use much more than 10GB....

[Faiyez]

Nothing more ironic than having to upgrade the hardware on your freaking console.

Talk about defeating the purpose of console gaming.

[Andrien]

Nothing more ironic than having to upgrade the hardware on your freaking console.

Talk about defeating the purpose of console gaming.

Its like switching memory cards on a ps2. Downloading games, apps, and movies takes up space. What is so ironic about getting a larger memory storage capacity to house them all?

[Cynthis]

SSD's are evil! I went through 4 of them for my new PC last year and each one lasted about a week before dying on me. It will be a long time before I try that technology again.

[Aenarion]

Nothing more ironic than having to upgrade the hardware on your freaking console.

Talk about defeating the purpose of console gaming.

Nothing more ironic than shooting yourself in the foot by crying out against universal user-expandable storage in a console due to some ill-conceived notion of what a console should be.

Do you also complain about memory sticks in PSP/Vita? microSD in smartphones? it's 2012, get with the time, it's no different than getting extra controllers.

SSD's are evil! I went through 4 of them for my new PC last year and each one lasted about a week before dying on me. It will be a long time before I try that technology again.

Err, stop buying cheap/junk parts? Either Murphy really hates you, or you're doing something wrong.


Back to the topic of SSDs for PS3/gaming in general, the general impression I got from those who tossed in SSDs in their PS3 is that the improvements are marginal at best, which isn't surprising. While SSD will dramatically improve your system's responsiveness when it comes to accessing files on the disks, it's not going to magically make your game run better/smoother etc.

Most of the time a game will have little interaction with the physical disk, the exception being the few instances where games may need to load large chunks of data such as loading a new level etc.

[indira]

SSD's are evil! I went through 4 of them for my new PC last year and each one lasted about a week before dying on me. It will be a long time before I try that technology again.

good'ol 7200RPM drives still are the best most reliable.
SSD's are still new so they still suck, i only use mine for programs(FFXIV) lol, data you want to keep never put on a SSD. cuz it will fail i always get a disk error then theres no way to move that data to a good area then you have to format.

also have two 120GB that are paper weights.

[Meatdawg]

Just buy a really high end pc, emulate the ps3 and then you can run ARR on it...