![]() ![]() Well, BD may not become like that though. We'll want to upgrade the HDD size very soon, if new standards appear in PC we will want to support them. However, as PS3 is a computer, (not only reducing the cost) but also wants to evolve. Naturally we'll do the same thing for PS3. As the methodology, we have been doing cost reduction such as chip integration and power-supply reduction. Obviously we have to make it a mature hardware to a certain degree to reduce the cost when we look at it as a game console. KK: After all, we don't say it's a game console (laugh) PS3 is clearly a computer unlike PSs of so far. Does it mean PS3 doesn't take a price model like a game console? Though in the case of a game console its price is lowerd to $100-$200, it becomes difficult with HDD as the standard. So it becomes 40-50$ cost-up through a life cycle of a game console. Unlike semiconductor chips HDD cost doesn't decrease. HG: For a game console HDD is an economic pressure. With these matters, we needed resolution even though we decided to include HDD. In that case it completely becomes a game console, but we want to do a computer. ![]() An HDD-less version might have been planned. However, there were various problems such as economic reasons, and we might have not been able to secure enough 2.5inch drives. Ken Kutaragi: In my heart it was decided that we want to include HDD as the standard. ![]() It seems it finally reached the standard HDD through all twists and turns since 2005. But it had not been made clear for a while about the standard HDD. In that sense, I'd thought that it's the important point for PS3 to become a computer whether it comes with HDD standard. "Hiroshige Goto: SCEI have always been saying PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) is not a game console but a computer. PLAYSTATION 3 evolves because it's a computer ![]()
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