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Just got Heavy Rain delivered yesterday. Looks good, but a bit blocky here and there. The gameplay is very refreshingly different from all the run and gun games churned out by everyone.
 
HookeyStreet said:
I get what you mean now. If you wont be able to play it now, wait and grab it when its cheaper ;)
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Yeah. Sorry if I made it into a mess.. I guess I was still punch drunk tired and typed away... lol..

Heavy Rain, should be a great game. I want to grab it. Just gotta wait for the time to really do so.
 
I may be joining pretty soon, planning on picking up a slim tomorrow. I'm debating on whether to get the 250GB over the 120GB. I had a 20GB model before so either one will be massive compaired to what I was on. I don't plan to put movies directly on it (mainly because it takes forever to copy over HD films), more like streaming them to it through Vuze. I only have $400 so getting the cheaper one would leave me with a good bit to spend on extras, but I know the 250GB is a better deal. What do you guys think?
 
I had the option of swapping my Slim within the return period, but the price premium really isn't worth it. I figure by the time I fill 120gb, 2.5" SATA drives will have come down in price so much that I could upgrade to a 500GB+ for less than the difference now.

120gb is a lot of room esp if you aren't saving movies to the HDD. I had a 120gb installed in my 60gb OG PS3 and with demos, installs, music, and pics I never came close to filling the drive. I think right now its only 60-70gb used.
 
theonedub said:
I had the option of swapping my Slim within the return period, but the price premium really isn't worth it. I figure by the time I fill 120gb, 2.5" SATA drives will have come down in price so much that I could upgrade to a 500GB+ for less than the difference now.

120gb is a lot of room esp if you aren't saving movies to the HDD. I had a 120gb installed in my 60gb OG PS3 and with demos, installs, music, and pics I never came close to filling the drive. I think right now its only 60-70gb used.
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Yeah, I have a feeling the 250GB would be overkill for me. I really want to check out Heavy Rain >.< Gamefly maybe....
 
bigger hdd is never a overkill!! I need more space!
 
kid41212003 said:
I meant Soylent. I bought mine from him :p.
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Haha, nah man. I'm sure you wouldn't want to ship that big thing back across the country anyways :laugh: Is it still working good? I actually bought it a little more than 3 years ago.
 
Yeah, it's still working great.

It looks better than the slim version, so I hope it will last me for 2 years or so.
 
kid41212003 said:
Yeah, it's still working great.

It looks better than the slim version, so I hope it will last me for 2 years or so.
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Yeah I do agree that it looks better than the new ones, but I'm not going to miss lugging it around. I should be able to pack the new one up in my backpack and carry it around no problemo.
 
Soylent Joe said:
I may be joining pretty soon, planning on picking up a slim tomorrow. I'm debating on whether to get the 250GB over the 120GB. I had a 20GB model before so either one will be massive compaired to what I was on. I don't plan to put movies directly on it (mainly because it takes forever to copy over HD films), more like streaming them to it through Vuze. I only have $400 so getting the cheaper one would leave me with a good bit to spend on extras, but I know the 250GB is a better deal. What do you guys think?
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Grab the 120GB and if you need a bigger HDD in the future, just upgrade it yourself, its very simple ;)

I have a 160GB HDD in my Phat PS3, but thats because I save XvidHD movies on it :)
 
I just picked up Uncharted 2.:)
 
HookeyStreet said:
Grab the 120GB and if you need a bigger HDD in the future, just upgrade it yourself, its very simple ;)

I have a 160GB HDD in my Phat PS3, but thats because I save XvidHD movies on it :)
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Yep that's my plan. With getting the 120GB I'll have about $60 left over for stuff, and with the 250GB I'll have basically none. Went a few places to get it today but all were out, Target should be getting some in Monday morning though. I can't wait >.<
 
Soylent Joe said:
I may be joining pretty soon, planning on picking up a slim tomorrow. I'm debating on whether to get the 250GB over the 120GB. I had a 20GB model before so either one will be massive compaired to what I was on. I don't plan to put movies directly on it (mainly because it takes forever to copy over HD films), more like streaming them to it through Vuze. I only have $400 so getting the cheaper one would leave me with a good bit to spend on extras, but I know the 250GB is a better deal. What do you guys think?
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When i was at Gamestop buying a PS3 Slim, all they had left(or so they said) was the 250GB PS3 Slims, so i just bought that. I love the extra space even though i may not use all of it.
 
CDdude55 said:
When i was at Gamestop buying a PS3 Slim, all they had left(or so they said) was the 250GB PS3 Slims, so i just bought that. I love the extra space even though i may not use all of it.
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I have a 160GB in mine and so far its been more than enough space. But if I ever filled it, which I doubt, I would just upgrade the HDD. I think the 250GB Slim is pretty pointless because of this fact and as we all know, SONY only released the 250GB model because M$ released the Super Elite :roll:
 
If the ps3 ever started supporting mkv with full .flac audio and .ass subtitle support, I would need a huge drive, but as it stands, the 120GB I put in my 1st gen 60GB console is more than enough space so far.
 
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meh it sucks to have the launch Ps3 20GB model lol which was only released in Japan but i have installed a 180GB and its great since i was thinking of smashing that 20GB in tiny pieces since its just junk now.
I bought the PS3 for £155 brand new lol and my brother had an old 100GB from his laptop which don't use anymore since he bought the WD Scorpio Black 320GB for his laptop.

I think the games that will be coming to my PS3 library soon will be FF13.
 
Finished Heavy Rain yesterday, I recommend anyone who is tired of generic games to buy/rent it, its very good and the game punishes you if you are not attentive enough. Hoping that my friends will pick up FF13 and GoW 3 so that I can game for free.

Hookey, Sony will release the slim anyway, look what they did with Ps 2? Its the Sony way to release something that is anorexic and packs a huge amount of features, then charge exorbitant price for it. Ps 3 was different, though.
 
Fourstaff said:
Finished Heavy Rain yesterday, I recommend anyone who is tired of generic games to buy/rent it, its very good and the game punishes you if you are not attentive enough. Hoping that my friends will pick up FF13 and GoW 3 so that I can game for free.

Hookey, Sony will release the slim anyway, look what they did with Ps 2? Its the Sony way to release something that is anorexic and packs a huge amount of features, then charge exorbitant price for it. Ps 3 was different, though.
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No, I meant they released the 250GB HDD model to combat the Super Elite which comes with a 250GB HDD, not they released the PS3 Slim in general to take on the Super Elite :roll:

Because at first, they only had a 120GB model Slim in production, then suddenly, as M$ released the details of the Super Elite (:rolleyes:), SONY suddenly produced a 250GB Slim.

SONY always release a 'smaller' version of their consoles for some reason. So a PS3 Slim was inevitable ;)
 
a super elite you say i lol'd at this because what difference are their apart from getting a 250GB?? people with old PS3 can just install a 1TB HD into their ps3 and would that be called super fat PS3 lol.
 
kurosagi01 said:
a super elite you say i lol'd at this because what difference are their apart from getting a 250GB?? people with old PS3 can just install a 1TB HD into their ps3 and would that be called super fat PS3 lol.
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Yeah, MS thought that by calling it 'Super' people would think it was upgraded in some way (other then just a big HDD)

I wouldnt really want to install an HDD larger than 500GB in my PS3 because I hear that some system have problems with large drives :( (500GB +)
 
kurosagi01 said:
meh it sucks to have the launch Ps3 20GB model lol which was only released in Japan but i have installed a 180GB and its great since i was thinking of smashing that 20GB in tiny pieces since its just junk now.
I bought the PS3 for £155 brand new lol and my brother had an old 100GB from his laptop which don't use anymore since he bought the WD Scorpio Black 320GB for his laptop.
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Man, I paid $500 for my launch model 20GB unit. So much fail ;_; I got good use out of it though.
 
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