So.....I bought a PS3

[T1Famous]

My PS3 arrived =D very happy with it, it looks B-E-A-utiful! Is it just me or do updates take ages to do and the games don't seem to run as smooth?

[TheLegendOfMart]

Yup, updating games takes forever on PSN and multiplatform games generally don't run as smooth as Xbox version.

[Nick H. Supervisor]

the games don't seem to run as smooth?

As smooth as what?

Welcome to the Playstation family. Yeah, the updates can be annoying, but if you fancy spending a bit of cash you can get a PS+ subscription, which comes with an option to set a time to turn on the playstation and download any updates for the system or games. Just set it to turn on at night when it won't be in use.

[AbandonedTrolley]

My PS3 arrived =D very happy with it, it looks B-E-A-utiful! Is it just me or do updates take ages to do and the games don't seem to run as smooth?

Yeah some games updates are horrendous, worst part is that you cannot download game updates in the background. PSN Plus takes care of this by downloading updates/patches at a certain time (overnight) but comes at a cost.

Can't say that i've run in to a smoothness issue though.

[T1Famous]

I was playing some Black Ops yesterday and it seemed to not be as smooth (could possibly be my BT internet connection -.-) Ah I may have to look into the PS +

[Muhammad Farrukh]

Congratulations

it looks B-E-A-utiful!

[Jimmy0]

What games did you pick up?

[T1Famous]

I picked up MAG, Black Ops. Will be buying LBP, Metal Gear Solid, MW3. I am also thinking about buying Uncharted

[Jimmy0]

Some solid games there.

I highly recommend the Uncharted series, Assassins Creed, Batman and God of War, if you haven't played them before.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

For as slow as updating can be, there is a plus in that Sony don't restrict update sizes. There's been quite a few PSN and PS3 titles transformed by the ability to update them as often, and on as big a scale as the developers want.

MAG is a great example, that game is completely different from what it was at launch thanks to quite a few GB of patches :p

GT5 as well, all the updates for that have transformed it.

So as much as we may want to bitch about them, look at the good with the bad.

Quite a few multiplatform games run better on the 360, but you buy a PS3 for the exclusives, if all you cared about was FIFA and COD, you'd buy a 360.

[neo1911]

Loving my PS3 so far. My only complaint was updating Gran Turismo 5 after a year. The update went on forever on my 2 mbps connection.

Currently playing Virtua Tennis 4. Not exactly recent game, but 4 of us can have a blast on same screen.

[ESC@PE]

Theres several games I've played on both PS3 + Xbox360 (sports titles such as Fifa'12 + NHL'12 - CoD:BO & RE5) and I can't say I noticed any sort of difference in any of these games. They both seemed to handle game play well enough.

[AbandonedTrolley]

Loving my PS3 so far. My only complaint was updating Gran Turismo 5 after a year. The update went on forever on my 2 mbps connection.

Currently playing Virtua Tennis 4. Not exactly recent game, but 4 of us can have a blast on same screen.

Ouch!

GT5 is a brilliant game :)

Certainly seems to be a lot of talk about MAG again recently, maybe Neowin should dust off their copies and get together on there.

As others have said LBP/Uncharted are good solid games which you can't go far wrong with. Personally I would be tempted to skip Uncharted 1 though and just go in with 2/3 as they were much better games graphically and in a story sense as well. The first one was good, but not great like the followups.

[Rudy]

Loving my PS3 so far. My only complaint was updating Gran Turismo 5 after a year. The update went on forever on my 2 mbps connection.

Currently playing Virtua Tennis 4. Not exactly recent game, but 4 of us can have a blast on same screen.

2mbps will do that :/

[compl3x]

If you want to really get the best impression of the PS3, I would suggest you start getting the exclusives. Multiplatform games are hit and miss as far as how well they will run.