Larger drives for more non-gaming media is the trend as Sony has confirmed talk that they did indeed have an 80GB Playstation 3 model in the works and its heading to Korea on the 16th of June. Along with the bigger drive this version will also have the cost-saving emulation software that Europe got in their version of the PS3 instead of the original Emotion Engine.

The PS3 launched in the US and Japan back in November with a 20GB and 60GB model, although the company decided to drop the 20GB version in some markets including North America in April and only offer the larger capacity 60GB version which was getting better sales.

According to Sony, they made the decision to launch the 80GB version in Korea due to an already-heavy use of online multimedia by consumers combined with Sony’s desire to push the PS3 for entertainment uses beyond gaming. Aside from the larger disk capacity, the 80GB version is otherwise a similar model to the 60GB sold in the US and the UK, however there are currently no plans for the new larger capacity version to be available in these markets, yet.