[quote name='Zing']GTA: San Andreas does not use the HDD.
Games that do:
Resident Evil: Outbreak
Final Fantasy XI
SOCOM II
The current Sega 2K5 sports games
Compare this list to the dozen or so Japanese games that support the HDD. Admittedly, almost all of these games simply install files to the HDD to decrease loading times. It was nice to see Sega use the HDD to improve gameplay, similar to how Xbox games use their hard drive.
I suspect that there will be zero new PS2 games that have HDD support. If Sony had released the HDD shortly after the PS2 release and included the browser software (as they did in Japan), then things would have been different. As it is now, it seems that the whole HDD idea might have been a waste of time and money, both for the companies and the consumers.[/quote]
Well it was well worth the purchase for me since I can basically store my entire library of PS2 games on my hard drive using HDLoader and reduce load times significantly as well. You can get 120 Gig drives now for cheap (and may of us have spare HDs lying around) and HDloader only cost me $30 when I pre-ordered it.
I do wish they would come out with a utility to allow you to store your saves to an HDLoader formatted drive, but oh well, there's other devices for that.
I hope that the future consoles will come with Hard Drives but we'll see. Given that Sony sells their 8MB memory cards for $25, I doubt they'll take a different approach with the PS3. They will probably just use Memory Sticks.