Play Station 3 Slim

[aziman 10]

Has anyone bought the PS3 slim yet, if so what its like??

 

am getting one later for my son.

[dmh79 10]

The Blu-ray drive is noticeably louder when player blu-ray movies than on the old PS3, it has no backwards compatibility for PS2 or PS1 and it has also had even more of the USB ports removed.

Its basically continuing in the same fashion of removing functionality to reduce the price to a more reasonable level, just like they've done with previous models (originally the PS3 had full backwards compatibility, SD card slot, memorystick slot, flashmedia slot and extra USB ports, all of which were removed to knock the price down).

The only thing that is an improvement over the last model is a slightly larger HDD (although PS3 takes a standard 3.5" HDD so can be replaced quite easily), and the obvious size difference. It also consumes less power.

[philipbolton 10]

how muh they goin for??

[aziman 10]

So not really any better, just bigger harddrive.

 

Cheers for that

[aziman 10]

how muh they goin for??

 

£249.99 for the PS3 Slim and one controller, but i rang game there doing for same price with 1 game, with 2 games 279.99 and 3-4 games for 299.99.

[sheffield_uk 10]

£249 with a game and a film

 

http://www.thehut.com/hut/elysium.search?searchDepartment=&search=ps3+slim&affil=BUYAT

 

£249 with 2 games

 

http://www.shopto.net/PS3/BUNDLE/PS3SLIM02-PS3%20SLIM%20120GB%20+%20Battlfield:%20Bad%20Company%20&%20Fallout%203.html

 

or

 

£229 instore at tesco from today...

Edited September 1, 2009 by sheffield_uk

[paranoid 10]

i thought they were also more efficient with power? and had better cooling? i'm not much of a gamer, just what i'd read on the bbc news site