SCEE’s Reeves on possible introduction of PS3 external hard drives

SCEE boss David Reeves hinted the possibility of introducing official external hard drives into the market as he explained several things regarding the current SKU being rolled out. However, PlayStation 3 users who are looking for a chance to expand their console’s hard drive capacity may still have to wait a while longer before it happens. You can read all about it in our full article after the jump.

If you think you aren’t getting the most out of your PlayStation 3’s hard drive capacity, then you might be surprised to find out that even the higher ups in Sony believe the same thing.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) boss David Reeves admitted as much after a talk with Eurogamer regarding the 40GB PS3 unit. He hinted the possibility of introducing official external hard drives into the market as he explained several things regarding the current SKU being rolled out.

He mentioned that moving to the 40GB configuration was mostly due to lowering the price of the console for their consumers. However, he wasn’t sure how long Sony will be keeping this current setup and opened the possibility of allowing gamers to choose from a wider variety in the future.

He was quoted having said this:

The PlayStation will stay the same, but consumers can choose whichever size of hard drive they want. They can now, or course, because it’s not a proprietary hard drive.

It might be that we will offer the possibility for people to have a bigger hard drive, but they have that option now. But it does not mean that we have anything in the works to introduce a different model or bigger hard drive built in.

External hard drives can currently be plugged into the console’s USB cable attachment, giving users an option to swap hard drives with the one inside the PS3. Reeves said that he wanted to keep things simple for now and stick to the cards they currently have on the table. Larger capacities will definitely be needed in the future when services like PlayTV becomes more commonplace for the PS3 user on the lookout for a larger multimedia library.