I purchased a Playstation 3 (PS3 Slim) last week which arrived yesterday afternoon. I intend to use it primarily as a Blu-ray player. The new PS3 slim was introduced a few weeks ago at a new introductory price of $299.00. This made it interesting but last week I was turned onto a promotion from the Sony Style site where I could get $100 off my first purchase of $299 or more. This brought the price down to $199. Right in the same range of other stand-alone Blu-ray players and an entire gaming console is thrown in for free.
My initial impressions are very good. The construction of the console is solid. The overall size is my smaller compared to the Xbox 360 especially when you consider the PS3’s power supply is built-in and the Xbox still has a huge external brick. I like the fact that Sony fully supports an end user upgrading the hard drive on their own and includes directions to do so in the user guide. The wireless is built of standard Bluetooth whereas the xbox uses a proprietary 2.4GHz wireless connection. The cabling on the Sony is also a standard mini-USB to USB cable whereas all of the cables to the xbox are completely custom. The only clear cut advantage the Xbox has over the PS3 at this stage is the xbox controller is much ore comfortable in the hands than the playstation controller.
Last night I watched a Blu-Ray disc on it. Amazing!
[UPDATE: 9/20 - The new PS3 Slim is super quiet compared to the Xbox360 and from what I've read online considerably quieter than the original PS3]
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