The PS3 Consoles at launch was sumed up by a two things: price and game quality, both of which weren‘t too thrilling. At over $600 at launched and plagued by a mediocre library of games, the PS3 Consoles went from the most anticipated game consols in history to the most dissapointing game consol in history.
Sony tried to fix it by releasing 7 versions of the consol, each upgrading the privious model in order to improve the PS3 Consoles, but it just made things confusing. All were backwards compadible with the original Plastation, but some were not backward compatible, so the average consumer might be suckerd in on bying a non-backward compatible one when they were looking for the backward compitable one.
In the mist of all this crap, Sony was indeed making a real effort to restore their console to number one like the Playstation and the PS2 was, and it came in the form of the PS3 Consoles Slim. Like the PS2 Slim, it‘s a smaller version of the console that has a few revisions in design. Let me tell you, from what I‘ve seen, if you have an original PS3 Consoles, backwards compadible with the PS2 or not, it‘s worth the trade in. The PS3 Consoles Slim has twice the memory as the current PS3 Consoles model does, but it costs the same. It‘s halve the size and has a better cooling system, so your PS3 Consoles won‘t over heat. It‘s not backwards compitable with the PS2, but at least you can tell the difference, so not to worry.
It‘s like Sony figured out that their old system was crap and just to show you that their new Slim model isn‘t crap, they even fixed the crappy PS3 Consoles logo to simply PS3 Consoles, just like the PS2. So lets just push aside the old PS3 Consoles, pretend it was never released, and throw it in the garbage and invest on the new PS3 Consoles Slim, because it defenatly looks worth the money, only a affordable $300 price tag for 120 GB of memory and blueray.
PS3 Consoles Worth Every Penny
I just received my PS3 Consoles Slim today – I am also a current owner of a PS3 Consoles 60gb version with hardware backward compatibility to the PS2.
My initial thought is that the new PS3 Consoles Slim is fantastic – nice and small, certainly about 50% quieter than my original PS3 Consoles, and everything works as it should. Just make sure you get a remote control if you will be using it a lot for movies, as the standard controller is not as form friendly.
I am not a major gamer, so I will mostly use the unit to watch movies (Blu-rays 95% of the time) and also access my music, photo, and video collection I have stored on my PC. You can‘t do that with a standalone Blu-ray player.
In addition, for a small $[...] cost (actually now it is $[...] until August 31st if you use coupon code AUG10OFF) you can install PlayOn software on your PC and then stream Netflix, Hulu, CBS, ESPN, and more to your PS3 Consoles. It works great and makes the PS3 Consoles the best media solution regardless if you play games on it or not. The wireless works flawlessly (I have everything else in the house hardwired to ethernet thru routers/switches) even for streaming video with PlayOn.
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