Sony: 250GB HDD + Uncharted 2 PS3 bundle 'complete fabrication' [update]

by Ben Gilbert on Sep 16th 2009 5:20PM

A PlayStation 3 Slim bundle containing a 250GB hard drive and Uncharted 2 was leaked by an anonymous tipster at Engadget. Though no price or release date info was provided, Engadget was able to independently confirm the bundle's legitimacy. We've reached out to Sony for comment ~~and have yet to hear back as of publication~~ [see update below], though a representative from Uncharted 2 developer Naughty Dog had yet to even hear of the bundle.

Considering we heard about the larger hard drive nearly a month ago via an FCC filing (those things don't lie people!), we're pretty sure the Sony's just holding off on an announcement until the Tokyo Game Show next week. Those three UK-based PS3 bundles now seem to be that much more likely, don't they?

Update: Sony America says, "That tip is a complete fabrication." To be clear, this statement does not represent SCE (Japan) or SCEE (Europe), though it does absolutely deny the existence of any 250GB PlayStation 3 bundle in the US this year.

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Tags: 250gb, 250gb-hdd, bundle, fcc, naughty-dog, ps3-bundle, scea, sony, Sony-Computer-Entertainment-America, uncharted, uncharted-2, Uncharted-2-Among-Thieves

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Haha, how popular are you?

I only have like 10 people on my friend's list. =(

Crazy I know...lol...I delete people off if they dont sign on for 2 weeks....Actually had to delete my wife....LMAO...

its getting to the point tho that I am going to have to delete people that arent at least @ level 5 with their trophies....would that be wrong?? lol

"LBP >>>>> Banjo Kazooie "

What do those have to do with each other? Might as well compare Gears of war to Call of Duty.

I was looking into replacing my 80g for a slim, so I guess this will be it right here.All I know is that the words Sony and Secret don't go together.

They're both platformers that involve creating stuff?

Cuz Esc LOVES Kazooie

It's hard to imagine needing 250 GB when you first purchase a console. Even the 20 GB 360 takes a little while to fill up, how long would it take to get anywhere near 250 GB on a console?

I have close to a hundred gigs of music on my PS3, over 30 PSN games, tons of game saves plus movies. It's really easy to fill up space on a system.

320GB HDD down to 30GBs in under a year....sure I copied over stuff from my FULL 80GB HDD but that didnt even take 6 months to fill and I was having to delete demos and game installs all the time

"With the content available on PSN, not too long."

Ok, ok, enough with the PR talk :P but really, if you want to take advantage of your PS3's entertainment possibilities and don't want to stream everything to your PS3 then you NEED all the extra storage you can get! Music, videos, films, demos, game installs are all going to take up a lot space.

And for example, you have some cool little things happening on the EU PSN store like Movement (a music show about unknown bands in five major European cities - Paris, Milan, Munich, London and Barcelona), Shoot! (short films, shot in HD, based on one of a number of words that capture the essence of PlayStation: Play, Create, Share, Connect, Discover and Challenge.) a lot of Dew Tour videos, etc. and they all take up from 100MB to 800MB...

But when you first get a system, I find it hard to believe you'd think you need that much memory. I recently upgraded my 80 GB stock drive to a 320GB, and I've had the PS3 about a year and a half. I can see how it fills up, but never thought it would when I bought the system. Of course, I could still just be living in the dark ages.

Yeah, but Banjo Kazooie focuses more on the gameplay, as LBP focuses more on the creating. Same as Gears and COD are both shooters, they are executed too differently.

Can't let you do that, Marius:

LBP > Nuts and Bolts

Banjo Kazooie/Banjo Tooie > LBP

Two words:

Brain. Explode.

Now that's how you put a bundle together.

2009's runaway Game of the Year packed in with the most reliable current generation (lol Wii) console on the market today.

It will also prove to be a tremendous value:

Free online play.
The option to utilize wireless internet access without having to drop more cash on extra hardware.
Easily upgrade your hard drive up to 1TB without having to drop more cash on an unreasonably priced hard drive with a plastic shell around it.
Rechargeable controllers.
Blu-Ray.

Amazing bundle. Going to be a great holiday for Sony.

Are you being paid by Sony?

no, but I am

Hey, Halo Pony. I'm really happy for you and I'ma let you finish, but Sprink-...eh...nevermind, already did that bit.

Sony Pays me...I get to be a "Super Friend" and have more than 100 friends and get an Exclusive Home Mansion Fully Furnished...

I mean, come on. I know it's a tired phrase to use, but you sound like a sales pitch. And weren't you just complaining about the 360's new model being desperate?

I really hope this is a joke account.

Besides, why even bring that up? That has nothing to do with this or what he said.

so many skuz, they might as well start updating the gpu in consoles.

God no.

I really don't think bundles and systems with differing HDDs sizes are all that confusing.

Ummm GPU is something that will alter the SDK...the HDD(for the PS3's case) does not...as every PS3 has a HDD Standard...

Like others have been hypothesizing, it would be much better for Sony to bundle MW 2 with the PS3 than it would be for Microsoft. After all, the Xbox 360 market is much more saturated than the PS3 market and having a new model and price drop is definitely going a long way towards this holiday season. It's almost stupid for Sony not to at least include the game, which would probably offset the custom 360 model and be less than the $400 price tag.

However, if a bundle is not announced through Sony, I'm sure there is some type of deal between Activision and MS considering that they seem to be awfully close with that temporary "exclusive" DLC map pack for the 360.

I think that's an exclusivity deal that Microsoft inked with Activision. MS has been making a lot of these exclusivity deals recently and it's beginning to show through the reports we have on Joystiq and everywhere else.

Ah, but what's a videogame site without a good flame war every now and then?

I agree that the DLC is overpriced, but the other stuff can't be helped. If you start allowing custom music and custom textures, files sizes are gonna fly through the roof.

It'll take several minutes to hours to download a single level, as opposed to a couple of seconds.

Sad, it's an awfully good fake - I have a 60GB original and was still considering buying this.

So if it turns out to be true...can it has backwards compatibility like the MGS4 bundle please? I missed out on that one D:

Fake

Yeah, but those camera textures are super-low res, and use up a lot of the thermometer. They have very limited use, which is why most people just stick to the pre-made stickers and materials.

If you're inventive, you can mix and match them to get some pretty cool effects.

If this would be real, and 300$ (or even 50 bucks more), I'd buy it, Uncharted 2 looks fantastic!

this is a complete fabrication...just like the psp go, slim and price cut

I work at a gamestop location in Norway, and we got a confirmation on the 250GB ps3+Uncharted 2 bundle via internal emal today.

In the same email there were SKUs for a 250GB PS3+Assasins Creed 2 bundle too.
It also said that the 250GB PS3 would _not_ be sold standalone, _only_ in game bundles.

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if this is true sony really needs to find a better way to keep secrets.

why are there so many "oh boy, good news, can't wait for this" posts?

the article clearly says sony "absolutely" denies it and Naughty Dog hasn't heard of it. "complete fabrication"...don't get your hopes up yet.

Now this bundle would definitely make me at least consider jettisoning my 60gb launch PS3 for it....

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