In another twist in the ongoing console wars, Sony's Masayuki Chatani is doubtful that the PS3 will ship with a hard drive when it launches next spring:

Speaking in the pages of Japanese magazine Famitsu, Chatani said that a strategy had "yet to be decided", but added that he felt people would want to upgrade to higher capacity drives - the implication being that Sony would shy away from making the hard disk unit an obligatory part of the PlayStation 3 launch package.