well i recently got my PS3 for christmas. i got the 60 gb. not bad u know im not complaining....well here goes my question and my pride... now remember it hurts me to ask this but here goes. what exsactly is the hard drive for...i know retarted isnt it but i had to ask because well...i dont know i know a few things such as downloading games n demos but that cant be all...is it

oh well thats fairly simple....someone told me before i had it that you can download full games off of a disk is that true or is it just someone over exsagerating

do any of you know what type music and video files it can play??

You can download Warhawk from the PS Store and other 'arcade'-like games as Stardust, Everyday Shooter and so on.

The PS3 can play MP3, Attrac+ and WMA; as well as .mp4 and .divx videos. You can also store songs, and transfer your PS2 save data to the HDD.

well that pretty much sums it up doesnt it lol

You can also upgrade your hard drive from 60GB to whatever size you want.

For Example: You get a 500GB hard drive and swap it with your 60GB, which is insane and really unnecessary, unless you a hard core gamer like some people I know.

I want to make that, but just to store more music. Sometimes, i like better use the PS3 browser (when my PC doesn't work, or just 'cause i'm lazy to turn it on) and play some music.

I have the 80 GB PS3 system... but let me tell ya... I've never had more than 20 GB on my hard drive at any given time. The games that require you to install data can ahve said data removed without harming your save file, so in reality, theres no point in having anything bigger than a 40 GB, unless you're going to download everything in the PS Store and put movies and music on your system (which I don't see the point of doing since most people have a computer, anyway). But yeah... anyway... Oh look! Pie!