I bought a Ps3 today

[ThePokedPenguin]

My 12 month love affair with the Xbox 360 is officially over, November 2008 I bought my first 360 and now it is Nov 2009 and 5 dead Xboxes later I am the proud owner of a 120gb slim Ps3!

?244 plus LBP and Uncharted 2 for free from Argos, pretty good deal i reckon

1st impressions of the slim are that it really it a lot smaller than the origional Ps3, I couldnt believe how small when I opened the box, nice solid weight to it, looks very nice next to my 32inch HDTV

The XMB gives you access to a lot of settings and I like the fact that themes change the icons too

All in all im glad of my purchase and I hope it will be more reliable than my 360 gaming experience

my PSN is pokedpenguin if anyone would like to add me

Dave

[Livin in a box]

Be sure to get Modern Warfare 2 also, and the original Uncharted, Killzone 2, inFAMOUS, and watch out for Gran Turismo 5.

[ThePokedPenguin]

Be sure to get Modern Warfare 2 also, and the original Uncharted, Killzone 2, inFAMOUS, and watch out for Gran Turismo 5.

Kinda run out of money after the purchase but i did mange to rent Killzone 2 from blockbusters, playing through the campaign at the minute

[lothodon]

congrats. i too went through too many xbox 360's to care to try again. i'm on my launch ps3 and love it to death.

[NoLiMiT06]

Bought mine yesterday, still have my 360 too and still love it to bits :D Bought Motostorm for $9 at Gamestop and rented ACII and Uncharted 2

[Sikh]

5 xboxes? Hell did you send them in or get a jasper? Ouch I feel bad for you.

But some of the obivious questions

Did you keep it on the carpet?

Was it standing up?

and last did you have an intercooler on it?

Besides all this, I hope your happy with your PS3 Slim. While they took out a lot of features, its still a good system but I would still like to get an old ps3. Ive seen many of the older 60gbs are RLOD or YLOD lately on ebay and I might pick it up and fix it.

Have fun.

[ThePokedPenguin]

Bought mine yesterday, still have my 360 too and still love it to bits :D Bought Motostorm for $9 at Gamestop and rented ACII and Uncharted 2

I gave my last 360 to my son so I still get to play it when he is at school, and i`ll probably be doing a lot of renting til my funds increase

5 xboxes? Hell did you send them in or get a jasper? Ouch I feel bad for you.

But some of the obivious conenctions

Did you keep it on the carpet?

Was it standing up?

and last did you have an intercooler on it?

Besides all this, I hope your happy with your PS3 Slim. While they took out a lot of features, its still a good system but I would still like to get an old ps3. Ive seen many of the older 60gbs are RLOD or YLOD lately on ebay and I might pick it up and fix it.

Have fun.

1st xbox i bought from a friend and it rroded after about 4 months, sent it to microsoft, bought another 1 to play while it was away and that lasted a month, 2 lots of E74 error and finally the last one was banned from xbox live and it wasnt even modded

All of them were kept on my desk with good ventilation and no intercooler

I think I was just very very unlucky lol

[Chrysaor]

I bought my 360 in 2006 (xenon or whatever its called without hdmi), it only rroded last month and MS exchanged it since it was still in 3 years warranty.

[Sikh]

^ Wow you were very unlucky. For the banned one, you sure it wasnt opened, modded hard drive, third party memory cards? If so, microsoft should send you another console.

I had a friend that went through the same, and when he sent it in and they checked it, found out NOTHING was wrong with it, so they sent him a new system that was manufactured 9-28-09. Since they cant unban his plus its useless now. He was pretty happy haha. Sent him a 60gb too since they requested the hard drive back to check for mods.

I bought my 360 in 2006 (xenon or whatever its called without hdmi), it only rroded last month and MS exchanged it since it was still in 3 years warranty.

Yeah microsoft honors even launch consoles. One thing I didnt like about sony. Couldnt even honor a launch 60gb. Sonys support isnt the best atm to me.

[Livin in a box]

5 xboxes? Hell did you send them in or get a jasper? Ouch I feel bad for you.

But some of the obivious questions

Did you keep it on the carpet?

Was it standing up?

and last did you have an intercooler on it?

Besides all this, I hope your happy with your PS3 Slim. While they took out a lot of features, its still a good system but I would still like to get an old ps3. Ive seen many of the older 60gbs are RLOD or YLOD lately on ebay and I might pick it up and fix it.

Have fun.

All that was removed from the 80GB version was the OtherOS option...

[Sikh]

^ Slims removed BC and OtherOS option. Whyd you bring up the 80 since they are discontinued?

[AbandonedTrolley]

^ Slims removed BC and OtherOS option. Whyd you bring up the 80 since they are discontinued?

Slims didn't remove BC :huh: that was taken away long ago within the fat era. Only thing missing from Slim was as mentioned the OtherOS. Else you could say they also removed 2 USB ports and memory card readers on the slim too. But as they were never on the last revision of the fat I would say they don't count.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

^ Slims removed BC and OtherOS option. Whyd you bring up the 80 since they are discontinued?

Dude you see to always go on the offensive in PS3 topics than half the time don't know what you're talking about :laugh:

For the topic poster, enjoy Uncharted 2 :D

[Jimmy0]

Be sure to check out some of the games on the PSN too, such as Wipeout HD/Fat Princess/PixelJunk Series/etc. :)

[Chasethebase Veteran]

So wait, you bought the first 360 in Nov '08? Ouch. I bought mine in April '08 and have had no issues at all.

[DDStriker]

Kinda run out of money after the purchase but i did mange to rent Killzone 2 from blockbusters, playing through the campaign at the minute

feel free to skip infamous go with prototype :D

welcome to the other side :laugh:

[Waylander]

maybe i say this cos i never owned a ps2 but bc is overrated, i would rather have bitstreaming but as i probably wont get ?250 for a phat i will have to do without

[ThePokedPenguin]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys :)

[still1]

My 12 month love affair with the Xbox 360 is officially over, November 2008 I bought my first 360 and now it is Nov 2009 and 5 dead Xboxes later I am the proud owner of a 120gb slim Ps3!

?244 plus LBP and Uncharted 2 for free from Argos, pretty good deal i reckon

1st impressions of the slim are that it really it a lot smaller than the origional Ps3, I couldnt believe how small when I opened the box, nice solid weight to it, looks very nice next to my 32inch HDTV

The XMB gives you access to a lot of settings and I like the fact that themes change the icons too

All in all im glad of my purchase and I hope it will be more reliable than my 360 gaming experience

my PSN is pokedpenguin if anyone would like to add me

Dave

nice... I am planning one this black friday..

[lothodon]

feel free to skip infamous go with prototype :D

welcome to the other side :laugh:

i'd say the opposite, skip prototype and stick with infamous. i enjoyed infamous FAR more than prototype.

[ThePokedPenguin]

i'd say the opposite, skip prototype and stick with infamous. i enjoyed infamous FAR more than prototype.

I already finished Prototype on the 360 so I will probably give InFamous a go at some point

[DDStriker]

maybe i say this cos i never owned a ps2 but bc is overrated, i would rather have bitstreaming but as i probably wont get ?250 for a phat i will have to do without

would of been very nice to be able to play mgs 1/2/3/4 all on the ps3

and my younger brother would of liked being able to play all the grand theft autos on the one unit rather then having to set the other 2 up

i'd say the opposite, skip prototype and stick with infamous. i enjoyed infamous FAR more than prototype.

i didn't really like infamous just felt corny and very slow gameplay prototype had a fun factor to it but everyone likes different things to each his own ^_^

[Sikh]

Dude you see to always go on the offensive in PS3 topics than half the time don't know what you're talking about :laugh:

For the topic poster, enjoy Uncharted 2 :D

Apparently you and him didnt get my point. The MAJOR reasons that kept PS3 going was BC that most upgraders wanted because as everyone else that upgraded, I myself was a ps2 gamer, never xbox, and I was dead set on getting a PS3 until they removed the important stuff while doing price drops. So you need to stfu and learn how to read.

Like most people now the PS3 is at a "perfect" price. But with some of the good features removed its pointless on getting one. Anyone saying its the "perfect" blu ray player at its price is wrong. Just the blu ray aspect of it isnt even a comparison to some of the top 200-350$ blu ray players.

As far as gaming console goes, it doesnt have much of a selection, all I see people REALLY BUYING is killzone, infamous, resistance, ratchet&clank, and uncharted. And im talking about physical media, not downloads before you bring flower and all those games into check.

Regardless its a good system, just not for me and half the other people buying 360s lately who ARE upgrading from ps2.

[x-scratch]

congrats youll love the ps3

i also got a slim ps3 have mw2

for your 360s why not repair them your self ?

[DDStriker]

Anyone saying its the "perfect" blu ray player at its price is wrong. Just the blu ray aspect of it isnt even a comparison to some of the top 200-350$ blu ray players.

but those cost as much as a ps3..why not get the gaming system with it as well?

sure the blu ray may not compete in terms of performance to other ones but again you're not paying just for a blu ray you're also getting a latest gen console with plenty of other features i believe you are asking for too much for too little

Edited November 22, 2009 by DDStriker