Post here if you've pre-ordered the PS3 slim

[Jason]

Whats the price today?

drew carey says: the price is right

[Voth]

A nice blu-ray player will run you around $200-$250 itself, so this really is a great deal for what you get. My Xbox 360 has never gotten the Red Ring, but I don't sit there and play on it for 6 hours straight either. I might just grab one of these slim ps3's to have a blu-ray player and play PS3 exclusive games. I've played CoD on my friend's PS3 and the Xbox is definitely a lot better for it, but I'd take the PS3 controller any day for sports games.

[Twerp]

a friend's ps3 recently broke. The disks won't read or anything. He bought it around 2 years ago. Sony's warranty only covers a month.

[Eric is God]

Gotta get that bleu ray son.

I'm amazed how many people don't realize you need a 1080p TV to really take advantage of blu-ray and I'm even more amazed at how many people are stupid enough to pay 50-70% more a 1080p TV.

Unless you spend 20+ hours a week watching movies there is no significant reason to get a 1080p TV at the moment. Yes, some games look better on 1080p, but not by a lot. Maybe in 3-4 years when networks think about broadcasting in 1080p I'll consider upgrading from my 50 inch 720p/1080i plasma.

[Galleleo]

I can definitely notice a difference between normal and blu-ray dvds (I got blu ray on my laptop and my laptop connected to my tv). As I can definitely notice differences between HD tv broadcasts and normal broadcasts.

[Displaced]

a month? my ps3 has got 3 years warranty...

someone trying to screw you over?

as for the whole 1080p issue, the difference is HUGE (albeit, you need a good sized screen to actually see the difference, i.e. 50+ inches)

biggest marketing scam ever is selling 26' FULLHD 1080p WOWO MATAFAKA TV's at 2x the price, when it is physically impossible to see the difference compared to a 720p tv at that size.

[Twerp]

sorry, meant year*

All PS3™, PSP® and PlayStation®2 (70000 - 90000 Series) systems are covered by their respective Limited Warranty for 1 year from the date of purchase.

https://service1.us.playstation.com/...A685D6A56#null

[Eric is God]

a month? my ps3 has got 3 years warranty...

someone trying to screw you over?

as for the whole 1080p issue, the difference is HUGE (albeit, you need a good sized screen to actually see the difference, i.e. 50+ inches)

biggest marketing scam ever is selling 26' FULLHD 1080p WOWO MATAFAKA TV's at 2x the price, when it is physically impossible to see the difference compared to a 720p tv at that size.

When I was shopping for my TV in January I compared 1080p and 720p versions of the same TV across 3 brands (Samsung, LG, Panasonic). I looked at online reviews and saw them in person (I made sure the 1080p TV's were actually showing 1080p content via a blu-ray) and from 6-8 feet away there was a noticeable, but far from huge, improvement in picture quality. If you are going to spend the extra 50% to 70% just to just 1080p, you should certainly choose one with amazing dark levels. A 50 inch TV like that will run you $2,500 to $3,000 US which is worth it if you watch a tonne of movies on blu-ray and play a lot of cutting edge games. On a TV like that you should also buy the extended warranty which is another $400-$500.

I decided I had no intention of getting a blu-ray player in the next 4-5 years and could live with gaming on 1080i/720p so I'm extremely pleased with my 50 inch LG50PG25 plasma which cost me ~$750 US, 7 months ago. I watch a tonne of TV, almost 3/4 of which is non HD (comedy, sci-fi, cartoon), which makes 1080p vs. 720p irrelevant anyways.

[saetep]

Squeezer, do you go swimming with your Xbox360s or something? I've had one xbox360 for the 4 years since it's been released, played it a lot, and it only got red ring two months ago. I got it back in a few days after shipping it out.

[Infrared]

I've had my xbox 4 years and got red rings 2 or 3 times but just unplugging all the cables and plugging it back in seemed to fix it, never had to send it to microsoft

[Fidel Castro]

The Xbox 360 controllers are ergonomically better than the ps3 games for fps games. The trigger is actually a trigger compared to the shit ass controller that ps has.

And the 360 controller is about a thousand times better for racing games. I have both systems but I will not buy a racing game for ps3 (besides GT of course).

[Displaced]

only fags play racing games on a "controller"... hence why i dont buy racing games for the xbox as a rule of thumb (forza 3 is the exception).

Logitech G25 + PS3 power, not that piece of shit microsoft are trying to pass off as a steering wheel.

[Broly]

People play racing games still?

[Squeezer]

I just bought a PS3 slim yesterday with Prototype and Killzone 2. Haven't set it up for PSN yet, but the graphics are incredible.

So I repeat my question:

Are their any good survival horror coming out on the PS3?

[Kim]

Just exclusives?

Heavy Rain will probably drop in the first quarter of next year.

I'm still wondering if I should buy a wheel for when GT5 comes out. Any suggestions?