On Saturday (28th Jan) at about 10:30pm my PS3 died, the blu ray drive, after a couple of years of making crunchy noises, finally gave up. At 11:30 pm I ordered a new PS3 from Amazon, it arrived Monday 5:30pm. I know we expect a lot from retailers these days but that short a timeframe, given the time and day I ordered it, is pretty amazing isn't it? 

Only real differences between the slim and the fat (apart from the obvious size) is the noise. My old fat sounded like I had a helicopter in the room the slim is almost silent. Big suprise was the fact that I can turn the PS3 on and control the XMB with the remote from the TV. I know this is probably all old news to everyone else but proper impressed me. Is there anything else it does that I don't know about?

Sounds cool I'm surprised your old PS3 was noisy though, because mine runs silently (its a fat 80gb model).

I remember reading that the PS3 Slim uses roughly one-third less electricity than the fat models, so you'll be saving a few pennies on your energy bill! Useful during the tough winter months, lol.

Mine was an 80gb fat, it was my 3rd, the previous 2 were replaced by Sony because of the noise. I guess some are good and some are bad. I knew mine was bad when I played without my headset and kept looking for the helicopter :-). The only thing that's broken on it is the drive so I've chucked it in the bedroom to use for tv catchup.

Wow, that's awful  But I'm glad your new one seems to be working fine My next PS3 game is going to be SSX next month so feel free to add me on PSN if you like. I'm Lt_Fed_Brusque on there. Catch you online!

Posted By Bluestman on 02/02/2012 12:11:07
Mine was an 80gb fat, it was my 3rd, the previous 2 were replaced by Sony because of the noise. I guess some are good and some are bad. I knew mine was bad when I played without my headset and kept looking for the helicopter :-). The only thing that's broken on it is the drive so I've chucked it in the bedroom to use for tv catchup.

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