****The Playstation 3 Slim Thread****

wannabedamned said:
They're not. It's just when a price is so much higher than the price of the other competition. Someone has to get accused of "money grabbing"

What it actually translates to is "I'm not willing to spend that much, when I can get a 360 for cheaper"
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I'm not trying to start an argument here but how can someone that owns a 360 and then says Sony are the ones money grabbing? If the price MS charge for their HDD's isn't money grabbing, then I don't know what is.

I think people just have this mentality that even though the PS3 is now a reasonable price, its still over priced.
 
D18241 said:
i've not bought a ps3 due to it seems like sony are just money grabbing when every other console is cheaper now it droped to £250 tempted to get one but when there selling fat+ slim for almost same price ill wait abit

has blue ray player / luanch 360 not red ring yet / gaming pc and dont see point of a media pc when got a laptop+archos player
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Well considering AT LAUNCH....the only system to actually make a profit per console sold was Nintendo I wouldnt exactly say that Sony were money grabbers.

Both Sony and Microsoft were making a loss on each console sold due to the manufacturing costs whereas Nintendo were using rehashed tech and were making a profit per console.

As Manufacturing costs have went down its allowed both Sony and Microsoft to lower their price as they go, funny thing is Nintendo have got the room to do so but see no need to do it as of yet. I'm pretty convinced the Wii could comfortably be sold at £99 if they really wanted to but they dont as its still popular enough.

Anyways my bro will buy a PS3 now, since the price drop but there isn't much on the Playstation that I desperately want to play. However I can always just play my bros console when he buys it :p
 
james.miller said:
Like the Nintendo DSi then.
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Looks like it link But a DS is much more simple than a PS3. The games are so small that they could even put 2 versions of a game on the same card if it came down to it. Having a PS3 and a PS3i wouldn't do anyone any favours. Thats what PCs are for. Creating a userbase and then splitting it in half isn't very good. I don't think the DSi is a very good idea anyway, they only made it so try and block flashcards with mandatory firmware updates.
 
mame said:
Looks like it link But a DS is much more simple than a PS3. The games are so small that they could even put 2 versions of a game on the same card if it came down to it. Having a PS3 and a PS3i wouldn't do anyone any favours. Thats what PCs are for. Creating a userbase and then splitting it in half isn't very good. I don't think the DSi is a very good idea anyway, they only made it so try and block flashcards with mandatory firmware updates.
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Its possible that a some what improved Cell would still run the same but with less of a strain on the Cell to keep it cooler. I still doubt its anything to be excited about though.
 
I'm pretty sure they are still losing money on the console, just losing less of it.

They make their money from accessories and their self-published games like Killzone 2, or at least that's how I understand it.
 
EVH said:
I'm pretty sure they are still losing money on the console, just losing less of it.

They make their money from accessories and their self-published games like Killzone 2, or at least that's how I understand it.
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I didnt say they weren't still losing money ;) the way I worded it might have indicated they were profiting now but I expect that they are not.
 
No..wish i never bought the original ps3...highly overated...in the days of the ps1,ps2 console where the things to own but know the pc is KING!
 
I would think 120GB would be more than enough, I've had my 40GB since June last year and it's still fine, although I am considering getting a new drive later in the year because it's down to its last few GB now. 160GB Western Digital 7,200RPM drives are just over £30 now so I might get one of those.
 
D D Danneh said:
They had more RAM though didn't they? I think the phat had 26MB and the slim had 52MB. Maybe I'm making things up. :p
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Not sure tbh, but i do know that if the newer PSPs have hardware improvements games are still designed for the fat PSP spec. If they weren't they would either run terribly/not run at all but the performance is identical across the board.
 
Streeteh said:
Not sure tbh, but i do know that if the newer PSPs have hardware improvements games are still designed for the fat PSP spec. If they weren't they would either run terribly/not run at all but the performance is identical across the board.
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Yeah I know, I believe it only really helped with web browsing.
 
lowrider007 said:
How are they comparable when one has Blu-Ray, Free on-line play, Rechargeable Controller as standard, Built-in Wireless receiver, Blue-tooth, and is quieter, better build quality, and estimated at around ten times more reliable in terms of failure rate.
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Brilliantly summed up mate. I think "lack of any decent exclusives" is a really poor argument as well. Just a poor excuse that people can repetitively churn out to justify why they don't want one... :o


mcwildcard said:
I think we can all agree that the most pressing issue here is how much the vertical stand is going to cost.
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:D
 
Save yourself a tenner and go for the WD Blue instead of the Black. 7200rpm vs 5400rpm doesn't make much difference in the PS3.
 
I would say 120GB would be enough. I bought my 40GB PS3 new for £200 when a shop decided to sell most of their games off. I bought a 250GB from here a couple of days laterfor £40. I didn't actually know that they just popped out of the side. I've got a few games installed and a few demos and videos downloaded and have 170GB left. Bare in mind the games come on a blu-ray disc so it's possible that in the not so distant future, some games might be a 20GB install. Everybodys golf is a 6.5GB install and bioshock 5.5gb. Saying that a lot of games are ~800mb.
 
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