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The slim was released at the end of August/Beginning of September this year. The model before that was the 80GB 2USB slots, no Backwards Compatibility, in summer of 2008.
The answer to your last question in your last post, as well as your original question, is no, you probably shouldn't buy a unit with more storage, nor wait for a bigger storage unit. If you need more hard drive space, you should buy it yourself, since replacing them on PS3's is super easy - you litterally unscrew something, slide out the drive, then slide in a new one and screw it back on. Getting your own hard drive is super cheap compared to the $50 you'll spend extra on a 250GB.
There's many solutions instead of getting a hard drive as well. Like people have said, if you ONLY use your PS3 to play video games, than your game installs will probably never fill it up. This is mostly true because fewer and fewer games on the PS3 are running on installs anymore. Because Blu Rays are so massive, they just run the uncompressed data. Also, I usually expect a demo to be larger than 1GB, but they too are beginning to get smaller, plus you can always delete those once you know you're done with them. Same for video files.
However, if you want to use your PS3 to watch downloaded videos and movies on your TV (like I do) and save some of your music collection to play with games that have custom soundtrack enabled, or hell, even put your photos on it to look at them through the cool photo viewer, then this is where other solutions come in. External hard drives are even ridiculously cheaper than internal ones, so you can just keep that plugged in via USB to your PS3 to accomplish that. Of course, you can choose not to buy any hard drive at all. You could just download a media server application. If you have wireless or can broadcast a signal, your PS3 will be able to pick up media servers and stream them wirelessly from your PC. If you have a decent connection, this is probably the best and easiest way to go.
Recap/For those with attention deficiency disorders, here is a summarized snippet of the general ramblings for you to ponder over -
No, you shouldn't buy a more expensive model/wait for one with more storage. You should buy the cheapest one, and if you find you need more space, either a) buy a hard drive on your own, b) buy an external hard drive, or c) download a media server application.
Any of these solutions would be much cheaper and much better than spending the extra money.
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Yeah, I'll second that. I've been watching the PS3 thing for years waiting to get one. If you're waiting for the next big thing it's probably at least another year off.
Get it now and get the cheap one. The only reason to pay a bit more for the 250 is if you just don't ever want to be bothered to replace the HD yourself. But keep in mind, you can slap a 500 GB in there for nearly the price difference of the two units if you're a savvy HD shopper.
Plus, you probably just won't need the space, and if you do, you won't for a long time.
Sadly, you missed the best Black Friday deals where virtually everywhere had insane bundles. Never know though.
Check out cheapassgamer.com if you want to really keep an eye on good deals. I live by it.
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it doesnt matter what size of hard drive your ps3 comes with as you can install a nice cheap laptop harddrive into it pretty easily :)
plus it all depends on what you use it for i have 166 gig free from my 250 that actually has 232 total :)
i have some small video files encoded for my psp on it and a load of psn titles plus game installs and that much space is taken up.
again it all depends on what sort of deal you can get it worked out better for me to get a 250 gig model with the package deal and only cost 30 more than my dads 120 gig.
dads 120 gig was basically ps3 and dirt 2 = £250 my 250 gig was ps3 + assasins creed 2, dark knight bluray, wolverine bluray and the £18 bluray remote for about £280 so in all a much better deal on the 250 and both were bought off line :)
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Get the 120 one. The 250gb is not worth the price. Plus you can always put in your own harddrive for a lot cheaper.
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I'm sold on the fact that you can use the USB to put things on an external HD. I'm guessing USB Jump drives work too then?
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You don't need a 250gb one. You need to buy a used 60gb one that has full backwards-compatibility. Smurf extra space.
Anyway, my buddy bought a 500gb laptop hard drive and put it in his 60gb backwards-compatible PS3. Pwned.
EDIT: Crud, didn't notice thread was necro. My bad admins.
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As long as you have learned your lesson. ;)
