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> You will probably have to save the PS1 and PS2 saves onto the Hard
> Drive.
And the data will get there by magic!
After all, a PS2 memory card is basically a Memory Stick in a different shell.
Every other console has them, you use them to transfer data from one console to the other: bring your saves over to a friend, created characters etc etc.
Sony wouldn't dis-advantage their console by getting rid of memory card slots.
With the PS2, the memory card connector is the same as PS1, so the cards just plug in - as you already know.
What Word Life means, I believe, is that there hasn't yet been any mention of a 'standard' Memory Card slot. At least, not that I've seen anywhere.
Of course, they may well be there, but have just been overlooked in all the excitement of the rabid reporters!
I don't know about anyone else, but I've yet to see a picture of what lies behind the flap on PS3 where the various cards plug in.
Whether there will actually be one in there when you buy it, or what capacity it will be, is still unknown as far as I'm aware.
"The PS3 also has a port for a dinky 2.5-inch hard drive, but you'll have to buy it separately"
The hard drive won't come packaged with the PS3 and has been said to be for storage of movies and MP3s only, as opposed to storing games on it, but whether or not game saves can be stored hasn't really been mentioned.
As posted already, I'd think it would be likely that someone will make an adaptor that will allow you to get your saves from your old memory cards onto the PS3 somehow.
But none of this really matters, because if rumours are to be believed the PS3 won't be out here till '07 and will cost a million billion pounds anyway.