Its a good price cut , but if it was 100 quid I wouldn't buy one , the 50% failure rate means theres a good chance it won't last more than a few year , my head would be melted anyway trying to get used to the control pad , I can't get my nat type setting of 3 to 1 or 2 is my only problem with ps3 .

I always find that comparing the PS3 to the 360 is like trying to compare apples and oranges...

Blu-ray is a great feature (i can buy a blu-ray player for around 100$ now) heck its really great for those of us with HD tvs which a lot of people still haven't bought yet.....

Yeah 299$ is a great price for the slim model i may even buy one before the end of the year if I have the money

RRod with the 360 only worried my a little since i bought a warranty which i do with 90% of the electronics i buy....I NEVER buy a used console cuz you never know what was done to it

and if you had 3 RRoD then you obviously should of bought a warranty cuz i wouldn't buy the same console over and over again if that was the case unless you like forking over major cash

If and when i get the PS3 you can bet I will buy a warranty for it

currently waiting on my HD TV to die or develop a serious problem so I can replace it with a bigger/better one because Image burn (which shouldn't of happened in 18 months) is annoying me - warranties are very nice if you can get them in your area

Slim PS3 doesn't get a HDMI cable? sounds like printers not coming with the USB printer cable.... i think HDMI cables are more then 1-3$ each..... i paid like 20$ for mine..... course it was at best buy so it was probably more expensive then else where

only a typical sony fan would say something like that.

yes they had problem,s with the 360, YES they are fixed in the newer models (Jasper)

Blu-Ray is the future?? are you kidding? blu-ray is an overpriced toy that users will get absolutely no benefit from at all unless they have a TV that's a minimum size of around 47". because quite simply, I have compared DVD movies side by side, using the exact same equipment, right down to the exact same tv model, and then asked friends if they could honestly tell the difference between the DVD version of the movie & the Blu-Ray version. the results were that everyone had to really concentrate to tell the difference, it wasn't obvious at all, and some even guessed that the DVD was the blu-ray movie.

the huge difference and benefit cames when we connected to a 50" TV, then you could really tell the difference. so if Blu-ray is the only thing that PS3 has got going for it, then you may aswell buy a 360 & save your pennies for a decent blu-ray player for your TV.

the future of gaming is in online downloading & content & solid state drives and definitely NOT blu-ray.

yes but xbox life is NOT free
i would never in a million years pay for something that i my self would be ashamed to sell, all they do is let you use your own network card, thats not a service thats a ripoff
the reason ps3 online experience is not as good is because the games are not made to have that good of an online experience
so in short PS3 is way ahead of xbox, but they both suck in the end for different reasons, and until they do i stick with a PC for my gaming

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the reason ps3 online experience is not as good is because the games are not made to have that good of an online experience

what do you mean ? I don't have any problems playing ps3 online ,and I played xbox online , not much difference . why is one better online than the other ?

You can get online with the Xbox for free you just can't play online for free

Another point i thought of is that Microsoft was primarily a software company until they started with the xbox so if your buying hardware from a software company then you can't expect there to be problems with it....

Xbox all the way. PS3's game selection is straight up awful, the extra stuff it comes bundled with (Wi-Fi, Blu-Ray, etc) Is pure convenience. Blu-rays look incredible on a high def tv, but not all people care for that. Myself, I want my gaming console to play cool games with. Wi-Fi, well most serious online gamers would prefer an ethernet to wireless any day, but that of course is largely determined by the quality of your wireless router. And with the Xbox's new hardware, the red ring of death syndrome is largely eliminated, coupled with an intercooler I wouldnt even worry about it.

Go 360.

i am getting an xbox 360 elite in a few days. the reason i prefer the xbox 360 is becuase when i played it at freinds place, the graphics were amazing, you could play online and play older xbox games on it. a real money saver too.
comparison:
xbox 360 elite ps3
1.online gaming 1.online gaming
yes yes
but not very good

2.sky tv included
yes with
xbox live gold 2.sky tv included
NO

xbox 360 for life!!! the elite especially rules!!!!!!!!!

no offense to ps3 fans but ps3 online sucks compared to xbox 360.

A PS3 appears to be a better deal then an xbox360, free internet access, blue ray etc..