500GB PS3 to be unveiled at E3?

i wanna play ps2 games on ps3!

Honestly, I think an "arcade" PS3 would sell better.

Already upgraded my 120 to 500

so much for this...

upgraded my 60gig to a 500gig already : D

so much for that

@MikeDecz, wireless N simply has better range and speed than wireless b/g. The maximum speed wireless N can achieve is 300 megaBITS/s (37.5 mb/s), but only under ideal circumstances. Either way at least a quarter of that speed is optimal for gaming wirelessly and the range would be a great improvement. If I'm getting a ps3, its defiantly going to be this one.

just buy a 500gb or even a 1 tb hd (2.5") and slap into your ps3 and wah lah. a 500gb ps3 for da low.

Well, why buy the whole thing again when we can put a 2TB laptop hard drive in the PS3? Except the improved Wi-fi.

People on here say 500 is too big, I say it depends on the person. I have upgraded my first run PS3 twice....the latest is a 320 gig 7200 rpm...and I'm down to less than a hundred gigs. LOL And that's after deleting a lot of old Pulse and Core episodes. Listen people, larger HDD are a good thing. Especially if you're taking full advantage of the system. I've downloaded so much stuff off of PSN that it eats space like candy. HD tv show's and movies take up a lot of space! But even if this 500 gig PS3 comes or not, I will be upgrading to a larger harddrive soon again. It's just a pain in the but doing a backup, replacing the harddrive, then installing the backup and everything else.

32 Terrabyte Wii to be unveiled at E3 2010?

the new slim Xbox 360 will have the 802.11n wireless standard Wi-Fi......

if you have a ps2 than who cares about BC i have a 60gb ps3 and its great but if you completely use your ps3 (aka movies/ BLUE-RAY, music, games, games, and MORE GAMES like you should be if your gonna spend the money) the memory goes pretty quickly and you have to upgrade. Which makes this new model a pretty sweet deal if the price doesn't go up; plus better WiFi sounds like a great buy for those looking to purchase their first ps3

MY MGS4 bundle was 80GB i upgraded it to 500 for 65 dollars on amazon.com and its 100% BC ^-^.

dont think it will have BC. but i got bc in my old 80gb model and it still is awesome. suckers :P and i also have a PS2. u can get one for like $50 at gamestop

If not I will keep my ps2 and get the cheapest model ps3.

Nice. Hoping to get the ps2 backward compatibility backs so I can sell my ps2 to get the ps3.

Oohhh.... Backwards compatibility would be nice in the slim. Does anyone here know whether the 802.11n really makes a difference over the b/g?

Scorpgul is right. Sony should be focused more on games instead of a 500gb hard drive that's just a number to boast "MOAR HDD= MOAR STUFF" to other consoles.. No one is going to use five hundred gigs unless Sony has a plan to do a full on marketing attack showing all the average joes out there how to remotely connect to your PS3- but regardless the average joe DOES NOT want to buy movies he already owns on the PSN. He wants to burn them to his HD, but needs to be a little bit tech savvy to do so. This is just a mess. Bad move, Sony unless you plan on making home DVD burning easier for the casuals - cause what else is going to fit that space? 500 gigs? KILLIN' me.

When they start acknowledging crucial faults with their products I'll start getting excited about new releases. No point blowing however many hundreds of pounds on a machine that's going to get YLOD a few months later.

just by a ps2 for 50 bucks at gamestop instead of praying for backward campatabilility

No matter if it has over 9,000 GB, if it doesn't come with PS2 compatibility it's not worth it.

The space should be a welcome sight to new PS3 gamers. However, I would take my original SKU PS3 with backwards compatibility any day. Its too bad its not in their announced plans to add it back. It is a lot of fun reliving the good ole days without having to dust of old hardware. Sony listen to the fans.

whats YLOD????????

Kinda worthless IMO. I mean as is on my slim I've barely put a dent into my HD.

A bigger hard drive and wireless N network compatibility is nice but what's the cost and do I have to put up with the YLOD again. Release the Kracken!!!

my ps3 has (BC) ad i barely even played one game of ps2 (resident evil4 for like an hour)it really doesnt matter because im too busy playing ps3 games to care for ps2 games.so all slim owners arent missing anything

i have a60gig ps3 and i have atleast 10gig of space left.Even my pc doesnt need even 500gig of space even though i have tons of stuff on my pc.I dont see a reason to release 500gig ps3 pretty.sure every body has enough space on their slim 120gig and 250gig

They should probably put Backwards compatibility back in. Some people have abandoned old games but some of us havent. Not that I would need it, as I have a 60GB PS3. Some of my friends on the other hand wish they had BC though. I can't count how many times I had to bring my PS3 over for us to play old psx and ps2 games. Hard drive size it cool and all...but the PS3 makes it so simple to install your own hard drive that I don't think we need Sony to do that for us.

@ X_CAPCOM_X If there was some way to download a PS2 game for free if you already owned the disk, then I could see that working. I don't know how they could make that work though; that would really open the door to piracy. I would hate to have to pay again for the games I already bought. For me, it's a very similar situation as what gamers are facing with the PSP Go. Good thought though.

This sounds awesome, alot of storage and capacity to fill.

hey vegeta what does the scouter say about ps3 hardrive capacity................. ITS OVER 9000!!!!

since they are improving the ps3 with a new wifi and bigger hard drive, i think they should put in hdmi 1.4 so 3D would look more natural instead of trying to pass it through 1.3

Focus making more exclusives instead of releasing the same console over and over again with slight modifications

Soon it'll be over 9000... GB.

Hopefully Sony announce a new, better (or at least cheaper), PS3 - that will give me some incentive to replace my YLODed fat one. n-type wireless... that would be nice!

Great I have a wireless N router looks like I may have to sell my 120GB on and buy this for the extra space and what not I was going to upgrade my HDD anyways to 320GB might as well not bother and move over to this.

they will be a stripped port of the orginal game and its highly on lightly that they will re-release the PS2 games on the psn however have faith that they will because Sega have just announced that they are going to release so of there Dreamcast titles on the psn & xbla as with Neo-geo titles have been planned for the psn so things are looking up

@jshaas.....Yes it was draft however if you look at all the changes they have done it was best and wise to go with 802.11G the N. Also the price was high at the time which means added cost to a console that had high cost due to blueray. Sony made the right decision.

What if they plan to release PS2 games on PSN?

i have the 120 gig ps3 version and i have barely used 50 gigs

I highly doubt anybody will realistically need that much memory. If I can't even use 200 GB on my computer, what would make me think that I'd need 500 GB on a PS3?

@Velocity... The "draft" version of 802.11n was available in 2003 and was being used in some consumer electronics. The IEEE didn't ratify the draft until fall of 2009... this is when we saw it become the new standard in Wi-Fi. So, I don't see why Sony didn't go ahead and put it in the PS3... considering they were touting it as the most technologically advanced console ever.

venom you can put a 250 gb hard drive in any of them for around 50 bucks

Im no where near filling my 250, so 500 is a bit overkill

i already have a 500GB HDD in mine i'm cool, as far as the wifi goes no big loss it was already way better than the fat ps3's wifi