Jimcalagon Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Thanks to a generous redundancy payoff, (Yay! Go credit crunch! ) I'm probably looking to buy a PS3 for my son for Christmas to replace our venerable PS2 (and it means that we get a blu-ray player as well ). Now I know that there are a number of different PS3 versions available and the amount of diskspace seems to be the usually quoted difference - e.g. the latest version on Amazon has 80gb - but I also saw on Amazon that they have a have a 'premium' 60gb version. So my main question is - is diskspace the only difference between the various PS3s available (and is the 'premium' version just the ordinary version bundled with extra peripherals) or are there other hardware differences between the versions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virtual_Boy Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I dunno bout this 'premium' but the original 60GB (which I have) has a card reader, 4 USB ports and backwards compatibility but these were phased out and replaced by the 40GB versions and again since by the 80GB model (neither of which have the above). So as far as I know the only difference between the units would be HDD size (unless it's old stock, doubtful!), the ps3 is actually made for the HDD to be user upgradeable and even tells you how to do it in the manual (standard 2.5" drive). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ai_Droid Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I dunno bout this 'premium' but the original 60GB (which I have) has a card reader, 4 USB ports and backwards compatibility but these were phased out and replaced by the 40GB versions and again since by the 80GB model (neither of which have the above).So as far as I know the only difference between the units would be HDD size (unless it's old stock, doubtful!), the ps3 is actually made for the HDD to be user upgradeable and even tells you how to do it in the manual (standard 2.5" drive). There's the PS2 compatibility stuff isn't there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virtual_Boy Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I mentioned the backwards compatibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimcalagon Posted November 5, 2008 Author Share Posted November 5, 2008 I dunno bout this 'premium' but the original 60GB (which I have) has a card reader, 4 USB ports and backwards compatibility but these were phased out and replaced by the 40GB versions and again since by the 80GB model (neither of which have the above).So as far as I know the only difference between the units would be HDD size (unless it's old stock, doubtful!), the ps3 is actually made for the HDD to be user upgradeable and even tells you how to do it in the manual (standard 2.5" drive). Did I read that wrong or are you saying that the later models don't have card readers, USB ports and backward compatibility? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virtual_Boy Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Correct, well as far as the card reader and backwards compatibility are concerned, USB ports are down to 2 from 4. Maybe consider an xbox 360 and seperate BD player, could get both for the same price as a ps3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimcalagon Posted November 5, 2008 Author Share Posted November 5, 2008 Correct, well as far as the card reader and backwards compatibility are concerned, USB ports are down to 2 from 4. Maybe consider an xbox 360 and seperate BD player, could get both for the same price as a ps3 One of the things he wants it for is Ratchet and Clank - I don't think thats available for X-Box 360, unless you know better? And I've heard a number of horror stories from mates about the red circle of death on X-Box Plus I don't want to pay for X-Box live when the PS3 version is, AFAIK, free. And the problem with having an xbox and a separate blue-ray player is that you have twice the number of cables to bugger about with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Just buy a 40gb as they will be going cheap now, buy a seperate 320gb laptop hdd and stick it in the ps3, all the storage space you'll ever need. That's what i've done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ai_Droid Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 One of the things he wants it for is Ratchet and Clank - I don't think thats available for X-Box 360, unless you know better? And I've heard a number of horror stories from mates about the red circle of death on X-Box Plus I don't want to pay for X-Box live when the PS3 version is, AFAIK, free. And the problem with having an xbox and a separate blue-ray player is that you have twice the number of cables to bugger about with. The red ring of death things fixed now, and even if it wasn't, there's a 3 year guarantee. Live is free, you just have to pay to play multi stuff, which isn't always suitable for kids. You could also say its not free because it doesn't suck like the PSN store I get a lot of value out live, specially with the kids. There's a bunch of demo's appear every week, which is on the free version of live, and the kids are generally happy to play them rather than buy the full game. The PS3 doesn't offer demo's for the games on PSN, you can't try before you buy. But yeah, it's all about the games, if he wants Ratchet n Clank or a blue ray player, you need a ps3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimcalagon Posted November 5, 2008 Author Share Posted November 5, 2008 Thanks everyone - you've given me some stuff to mull over... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkydevil Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 One of the things he wants it for is Ratchet and Clank - I don't think thats available for X-Box 360, unless you know better? And I've heard a number of horror stories from mates about the red circle of death on X-Box Plus I don't want to pay for X-Box live when the PS3 version is, AFAIK, free. And the problem with having an xbox and a separate blue-ray player is that you have twice the number of cables to bugger about with. The red ring of death things fixed now, and even if it wasn't, there's a 3 year guarantee. Live is free, you just have to pay to play multi stuff, which isn't always suitable for kids. You could also say its not free because it doesn't suck like the PSN store I get a lot of value out live, specially with the kids. There's a bunch of demo's appear every week, which is on the free version of live, and the kids are generally happy to play them rather than buy the full game. The PS3 doesn't offer demo's for the games on PSN, you can't try before you buy. But yeah, it's all about the games, if he wants Ratchet n Clank or a blue ray player, you need a ps3. Bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Bullshit. There's demo's of full games, and the odd demo of psn games, but its not like Live where absolutely every Live Arcade game comes with a demo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkydevil Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Bullshit. There's demo's of full games, and the odd demo of psn games, but its not like Live where absolutely every Live Arcade game comes with a demo. "There's demo's of full games, and the odd demo of psn games, but its not like Live where absolutely every Live Arcade game comes with a demo." != "The PS3 doesn't offer demo's for the games on PSN, you can't try before you buy." misinformation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moxli Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Nahhh, like Slim has said, you can get demos of some PSN games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ai_Droid Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 misinformation. No, it was a clarification. Here's another: There's far fewer demo's on PSN than on Live, and you don't need to pay for demo's on Live which was the point I was making. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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