Sony's Dirty Little Secret

I have been a Sony Playstation fan since it's launch in the 1995. I bought a Playstation when everyone though that Sony was crazy for ever going against Nintendo. I waited to buy a Playstation 2 (PS2) when everyone was raving about the Sega Dreamcast and choose it over the Microsoft X-Box when everyone raved about how much more powerful it was than the PS2. And I will purchase a PS2.


Bow and pay your respects to the ultimate in portable gaming hardware.
But what most people have seems to have forgotten is the recent advance in Playstation technology that seems to have been shelved faster than Windows ME. The PS2 Hard Drive!!!


The Playstation 2 Hard Drive was released with Final Fantasy XI, the massivly multi-player online role playing game released by . Gamers had been waiting for this attachment to the PS2 for years. And it sold when it came out, and then suddenly, fell off the face of the earth.


While the hard drive wasn't that big of a drive at 40 GB or fast (I believe 5400 rpm), it was however a very useful addition to the PS2. That is until however Sony seemed to do everything possible to kill it.

Here is what I could come up with to support this:

1. Lack of support for games
   Besides Syphon Filter and Final Fantasy how many games could use it.


2. Release of a new PS2 with not support for the hard disk drive


3. Removal from the Playstation Web Site
   I mean the Linux kit is still even on here

Every system has its failures. But these sound just a little to familer to the Sega Dreamcast History. But reguardless or not, this rant was something to write about. lol

Just an opinion from someone who doesn't matter - mTony