Ps2 Hd

[danomac24681]

Sony announced Tuesday that it will begin selling an add-on hard drive for its PlayStation 2 video game console next March in North America.

The 40GB attachment will plug into the back of the games console, in connection with the network adapter Sony released last year to enable online play.

The hard drive is designed to enable players to save game settings, to download content such as new levels and characters, and to store music tracks and photos. The first game to use the hard drive will be Square's "Final Fantasy XI," the new online update to the popular series of role-playing games. The title will come preloaded on the hard drive, which will go on sale in March priced at $99. "Final Fantasy XI" and the hard drive have been available in Japan for several months.

The hard drive is part of Sony's effort to keep up with gradually increasing demand for online gaming in the living room. Sony executives said Tuesday the company has shipped 880,000 PlayStation 2 network adapters to date. Microsoft, meanwhile, has signed up more than 500,000 customers for Xbox Live, the subscription-based online gaming service for its Xbox console, which includes a built-in hard drive.

While the initial focus for the hard drive will be on game content, it could also be used to store movies, music and other media items. But exploitation of such multimedia capabilities will partly depend on Sony's coming up with a workable approach to securing such content, Andrew House, executive vice president for Sony Computer Entertainment America, said. That is a particular concern for Sony, given its substantial interests in the movie and music industries.

"With any of the content we'd work with, digital rights management is a very key concern," House said. "We're in a unique position as a company, with businesses on both sides of the issue, as far as being a hardware provider and a major content company.

[High_Times]

what does this have to do with hacking?....this is just a bunch of info most people already know.

[HBKShawnMichaels]

So with this can we already put our own music in HCTP witout burning it again wit a modchip

[danomac24681]

from what i have heard so far you can.

[HBKShawnMichaels]

Wicked then wen does it come out this March if it does it will rock man 300th post!! w00t :eek

[danomac24681]

i think next march >: >:

[toddomac]

Ok It so will it cost 99 just for the harddrive and is it out yet

[Rob Michaels]

The first game to use the hard drive will be Square's Final Fantasy XI

That right there is why the HD is useless for using custom intro music. Becuase the HD will only work for games programmed to use the HD. That means HCTP is out, and let's face it, SD!6 probably won't use the HD either. Furthermore, since it looks like SD!6 will be the last PS2 wrestling game, I doubt if the PS2 will ever see a music rip feature in a wrestling game. The HD still may be useful for hacking though, if someone can manage to use an exploit to get some hacking tools on the HD. The whole HD thing is old news though, it's been out in Japan for years, and it pretty much failed there, again, becuase not many companies bothered to add HD support for they're games. As for SD!6, if the HD was out right now, there may just be enough time to program SD!6 to make use of it, but obviously, if the HD doen't come out until next year, there's no chance that SD!6 will use the HD. Plus, even if the HD does come out this year, it's still only a slim chance that SD!6 will be compatible. Not trying to kill anyone's buzz, just trying to save you from wasting $100 on something that is pretty much useless to most people. In the end, all it will be for most people is a big memory card....

[talksick]

I thought the HD was to come out this month.

EDIT If the gaming companies wanted to add more to a certain game say "SD6". (newer roster, music, moves whatever) Why wouldn't they be able to do it if it was compatible to the existing game (that they made)?

Edited March 4, 2004 by talksick