With the PS3, I can buy myself a 320-500GB replacement drive for about the same price I was paying for an 8MB memory card last gen. However, this gen worrying about save space is a thing of the past (worrying about space for DLC and DD titles is another matter unfortunately). Canada has always had $300-500 systems at launch, and $60 games have been standard since at least the PS1 era.
Our stronger dollar cancelled out the HD price hike. The crazy hike in system price never happened here because our exchange rate has been really good the past 3-4 years. This generation has been much better in Canada at least. Then it was off to buy a second $45 card. Sure, the memory cards seemed huge at the start when most games required 50-200kb to save, but it didn't take long before you had games like GTA hogging 1-2MB per save slot. In Canada, Sony was charging $45 at launch for their 8MB mem card, on top of the $399 PS2, and $59-69 launch window games.
