Rumor control: of controllers and hard drives
by Adams Briscoe 
{ May 15th 2006 at 5:00PM }
One of the most important E3 followups that's been going around has to do with the rumor claiming that the cheaper PS3 setup won't support wireless controllers or a removable hard drive. This would naturally have some people clamoring for clarity.
Thankfully we can dismiss this misinformation with a bit of confidence as it appears Sony's press release states that both systems will come with wireless Bluetooth controllers.
As far as the second part goes, the removable hard drive bay can actually be seen on the left of the console (or bottom when vertical). It just goes to show you: don't believe everything you read on the internet. Until we hear something else official, count the rumors as BS.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Adrian vG @ May 15th 2006 7:26PM
A hard drive can not be permanent, can it? Isn't it just to open the box and plug in another one?
Goobers @ May 16th 2006 1:29AM
this topic has already gotten quite a number of comments on Joystiq already... and a few from people who refuse to read the rest of the "blog"... as soon as they read "no bluetooth" they go bonkers, even though in the very same blog, it just says until otherwise OFFICIAL, don't count on the rumors.
it's just too hard for them to finish reading (at least the article/blog, if not all the comments too) and THEN put their own comments.
the only problem is... i'm ALL for the Blu-Ray... but man, is it expensive.
oh, and yes a HDD 'can' be permanent... if they solder in the connections. it can be non-user removable if they put it on mountings.
what they'll most likely do to make it user removable is use an internal bracket for you to push/pull the hdd into place. meaning, if you want to upgrade to 300 GB, pull the old one out, move the bracket to the new drive, and push it back in.
i say this because "according" to another blog, Sony isn't planning on marketing their own drives (meaning no custom casings), and that you are "supposedly" allowed to use a drive you can buy from any computer shop.
with the old PS2, you couldn't use "your own" because of the adapter casing... you just didn't have it, and the only way to get it was to buy a Sony branded hdd.