Playstation 3 differences?

Question

All right, I don't understand what the gb means on a ps3. i know there are 40 and 80 but are there different ones too? What is the difference? does it just mean it can hold more if it has more gb or what? can you play ps2 games on all the models or only the ones with more gb? please explain what they mean.

Answer 1

When a PS3 has more GB(gigabytes) it means that it can store more data.

The difference between the different PS3 models is below:

The 80GB and 60GB PS3's are the same except that the 80GB PS3 has more hard drive space, and the 60GB PS3 has better backward compatibility with PS1 and PS2 games because it has the Emotion Engine chip inside of it. The 80GB PS3 comes with Motorstorm as well. The 80GB PS3 is backward compatible, it just cant play as many PS1 and PS2 games that the 60GB PS3 can. The 60GB PS3 can play almost every PS1 and PS2 game ever made.

The 40GB PS3 can play PS1 games, but it cannot play PS2 games, and it only has 2 USB ports (the 60GB and 80GB PS3 have 4 USB ports), the 40GB PS3 does not have the digital camera flash card slots, and of course, the 40GB PS3 has less hard drive space.

The 20GB PS3 is the only model that doesn't have built in WiFi, but it also has the best backward compatibility just like the 60GB PS3 because it has the Emotion Engine chip in it. Also, the 20GB PS3 has 4 USB ports, and the 20GB PS3 does not have the digital camera flash card slots either.

Answer 2

80 GB system is much better.

80 GB- can play 88% of PS2 games (More when you download updates from the PS network.)

40 GB- Half the storage, and cannot play any PS2 games.

Answer 3

gb = gigabyte, you can read more about gb at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

I don't think you can play old PS2 games on the 80 gig, You might be able to on the 40 gig. I myself have the 60 gig. I have tons of music, pictures, videos and demos on my PS3 and I have about 20 gig left.