Cheaper & slimmer PS3's are on the way
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I think comparing it to the PS2 this early on is quite silly.
My ps2 is far noisier than my ps3 for sure.
edit: mid you im talking about the first ps2 not the slimline which is true dead quite.
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ehh ?
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LOL i should have let it go damn could have been the start of something good,
Not used a breeze block PS2 in a long time, so you're probably right!
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Yeah the original PS2 is a nightmare for watching dvds.
Indeed, the PS3 is far quieter than the original PS2 was; my PS3 makes virtually no noise at all. They did do a cooling system upgrade on the fullsize PS2s after a few years which made them far quieter though.
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Im not sure I can see a slim PS3 that soon. I think we'll see a price drop first definitely, a slimline PS3 is quite a while away imo.
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I rely heavily on my spell checker but obviously as 'allot' is a real word I missed in the heat of the moment, I hope you can forgive me.
I don't know why tbh, I'm not and have not said that they will be down sizing the PS3 in the immediate future, but like they did with the PS2 I'm guessing there is a great possibility that they will do, Sony have a good history of downing sizing their electronics and are usually quite efficient at doing so, no doubt you've seen inside a PS3, you'll notice that the cooling unit and heat-sink combined takes up a hell of a lot of space due to the heat the cpu/gpu kicks out, if they could down scale that and take out the PSU like they did with the slim PS2 I think they could come up with a pretty sleek looking PS3, just my opinion mind.
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Excellent news, now all they need to do it add BC. 40% decrease in power consumption is a hell of a lot too!
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I have two ps3's (an original 60GB and a brand new 80Gb) and both are completely silent gaming for two hours and playing movies (either BR or upscaled dvd)
They do need a lot of space to breath though, both of mine are in the open air rather than in a cabinet but there is no chance at all that in general the ps3 is louder than any previous console ....as its practically silent
No they dont because few apart from on boards like this actually wanted it in the first place - if you do go out and buy a ps2
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I would settle for quiter rahter than a smaller ps3.
WTF?
People moaning about the 360 noise I can just about handle (even though it really doesn't bother me) but noise from the PS3? Mine is silent, is yours not?
Why the hell would i write it if i didn't think my ps3 was noisy?
I had issues similar to yours, a couple of phone calls to Sony netted me a replacement unit that didn't produce anywhere near as much sound. The PS3 isn't a noisy unit, it seems there is a small number of faulty units that sound like hair dryers.
It's definitely louder than the N64, Dreamcast, GameCube, PS2 (no idea which version, but it wasn't the latest slimline) and XBox 1 imo.
Why are people arguing that the PS3 is louder/quieter than another console, when it's plainly obvious that the noise differs from one unit to the next?
Some, for whatever reason, don't ever seem to spin their fans up. Others spin up after doing something intensive for a while. Theres nothing wrong with either, that's just the way it is.
Some, for whatever reason, don't ever seem to spin their fans up. Others spin up after doing something intensive for a while. Theres nothing wrong with either, that's just the way it is.