While Microsoft has been banning people left and right for modding their Xbox 360 consoles, Sony is actually encouraging people to upgrade their PS3 hard drives with standard drives.

In a recent blog post, Sony’s Jeff Rubenstein talks about how easy it is to fill up even an 80GB hard drive, the biggest the company currently offers. What’s his solution?

“…you can swap it out yourself with the kind of drive found at most electronics retailers and on the internet…”

He even links to a CNET tutorial that will show you how to do it. He also makes a crack at Microsoft’s expense, stating “…the PS3 doesn’t require some hard-to-find proprietary HDD…”

Not only is that a mean thing to say, but it doesn’t even seem to be accurate. As soon as I read that, I checked out both Amazon and Gamestop.com and they both had the 120GB Xbox 360 hard drive in stock. Whatev.

Via Destructoid