Hard drive or hard luck?

"The hardware was developed with the hard disk in mind," claims Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, who stressed during Wednesday's 🔴revealing meet☂ing that developers should create games for the PS3 assuming the hard drive will be there. But even though Kutaragi's presentation stated that a hard drive was required, he refrained from confirming if the drive will be preinstalled in all PS3s.

However, a Sony rep here in the US has officially told GamesRad𒁃ar's sister magazine PSM that it is Sony's intention, at least 🍨in the US, to include a hard drive with every system. 60 gigabytes and detachable, to be exact.

Of cour♏se, that's an added expense.We'd be surprised if thePS3 was launchedbelow the $400 mark, and a bundled hard drive could bump that price even higher. However, as anyone who bought the gutted,"Core system"Xbox 360for $300will probably attest, sometimes it's worth it to drop the extra coin.