The Korea-bound bump in the PS3's hard drive size may soon roil our own shores, if speculation published by the Associated Press is accurate. Satoshi Fukuoka, a spokesman for Sony Computer Entertainment, uttered a statement so elliptical as to verge on complete meaninglessness, but which deployed keywords that allowed for a good 20" of boilerplate wire copy to be constructed around them.
Of course, the AP selectively misses Next-Gen's quote from another hydra-head-like appendage of Sony's PR machine, which says "there are no plans to change current hardware offerings" in the U.S.
Hard drives space is cheap. 20GB is worth about $5 as differential wholesale. It's possible, if unlikely, that Sony plans to offer something more substantial to the U.S. market. As its strategy has always centered on Blu-Ray, however, Sony might simply be incapable of treating the machine as a serious spinning-disk media hub.
Which is to say, if the games don't need it, it won't happen. Unless you're a PSP.
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