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#1 Lilac_Benjie
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Does anybody else thing PS3 looks a bit chunky?

 

It looks a bit too awkward to be a media player for 10 years (as Sony claim).

Do you think Sony will release a more practical Playstation 3?

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It looks perfect right on my desk.  Any smaller, it would take out essential components of the PS3.
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#3 the-very-best
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I'm sure they'll make a PS3 Slimline down the track.

For now I'm happy with the design as long as the console doesn't have any overheating issues, which it probably won't since it's so large. 

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#4 dcm06
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ps1 ps2 yep ps3 will probably get one.
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#5 NobuoMusicMaker
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ps1 ps2 yep ps3 will probably get one. dcm06

As technology gets cheaper and micro-components are being researched, yeah.  Might be a bit harder for the PS3 since it has a lot more components than the previous playstations.  Like the harddrive. 

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[QUOTE="dcm06"]ps1 ps2 yep ps3 will probably get one. NobuoMusicMaker

As technology gets cheaper and micro-components are being researched, yeah.  Might be a bit harder for the PS3 since it has a lot more components than the previous playstations.  Like the harddrive. 

you know how small the ps3 HDD is ? its laptop size, we all know how thin laptops are. there were rumours that they were making ps4 and it was coming out in 2 years or less, but i think it is the slimline ps3 that they are working on, saying they are gonna release ps4 that early is just plain dumb
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#7 evil_naruto08
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probably be 800$ or something.
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#8 mightyboosh13
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It looks perfect right on my desk.  Any smaller, it would take out essential components of the PS3.NobuoMusicMaker

 

Could take out the BR (hehehe) and chuck in  500gb HD. You'd then get room to store HD movies, console be a little smaller, you'd have less load times and frame-rate issues. And yay!!! a better console in all though lacking disc movie playback. Maybe a add-on would solve that.

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#9 lusitanogamer
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probably be 800$ or something.evil_naruto08

Yeah, like the PS One and PS Two were more expensive than the original ones.:roll:

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#10 Ibacai
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You know? I actually like the way the PS3 looks. It fits in well with my Bose entertainment center.
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[QUOTE="NobuoMusicMaker"]It looks perfect right on my desk.  Any smaller, it would take out essential components of the PS3.mightyboosh13

 

Could take out the BR (hehehe) and chuck in  500gb HD. You'd then get room to store HD movies, console be a little smaller, you'd have less load times and frame-rate issues. And yay!!! a better console in all though lacking disc movie playback. Maybe a add-on would solve that.

Poor of those that don't have an internet connection in which to plug their PS3...

About the load times and frame-rate issues, in what games you find that? Exactly, third party. First and second party games have no framerate issues and good loading times. Blame the developers, not PS3's hardware.

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#12 NobuoMusicMaker
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[QUOTE="NobuoMusicMaker"]

[QUOTE="dcm06"]ps1 ps2 yep ps3 will probably get one. Mandingo101

As technology gets cheaper and micro-components are being researched, yeah. Might be a bit harder for the PS3 since it has a lot more components than the previous playstations. Like the harddrive.

you know how small the ps3 HDD is ? its laptop size, we all know how thin laptops are. there were rumours that they were making ps4 and it was coming out in 2 years or less, but i think it is the slimline ps3 that they are working on, saying they are gonna release ps4 that early is just plain dumb

Uh you know that there are different sizes of laptops.  Cheap, small laptops hold nothing.  Expensive custom size (less than 2.5") will be costing half the system itself.  Think iPods except faster transfer rates, since iPods HD are slow as hell.  Then, if you throw out the standard 2.5" hds, how will you plan to swap?  HDs like in the iPod are proprietery made components.

[QUOTE="NobuoMusicMaker"]It looks perfect right on my desk. Any smaller, it would take out essential components of the PS3.mightyboosh13

 

Could take out the BR (hehehe) and chuck in 500gb HD. You'd then get room to store HD movies, console be a little smaller, you'd have less load times and frame-rate issues. And yay!!! a better console in all though lacking disc movie playback. Maybe a add-on would solve that.

Wait, you'd chuck the BD-Rom and put in 500gb for BD content?  Where's are you going to get those movies because I'm sure as hell not going to download 25-50gb for one movie.  Smaller consoles =/= less load times.  Consoles are practically integrated systems so they don't have to worry about BUS speed, although PS3 has 50gb/s BUS. 

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it's too big, but aesthetically, it's got the best design of the 3, imo.
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#14 X360PS3AMD05
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You know? I actually like the way the PS3 looks. It fits in well with my Bose entertainment center.Ibacai
That does not compliment the PS3 well :? I'll wait for it to be redesigned, cost like $200 and pick-up a bunch of cheap games. Unless my bro buys one for GOW3 beforehand.
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[QUOTE="Ibacai"]You know? I actually like the way the PS3 looks. It fits in well with my Bose entertainment center.X360PS3AMD05
That does not compliment the PS3 well :? I'll wait for it to be redesigned, cost like $200 and pick-up a bunch of cheap games. Unless my bro buys one for GOW3 beforehand.

What do you mean? Both have the same design and compliment eachother. At least in my eye they do.
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#16 cakeorrdeath
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it's too big, but aesthetically, it's got the best design of the 3, imo.fuzzysquash

I like the shinyness it just screams buy me but it is awkwards in both size and shape. It's kind of wants you to build your entertainment unit around it rather than the other way around.

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#17 dcm06
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cake your the best mod on the site imo. i would like the silver ps3 to come out would match my tv dvd player and 360 in a way like everything looking about same.
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#18 cakeorrdeath
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cake your the best mod on the site imo. i would like the silver ps3 to come out would match my tv dvd player and 360 in a way like everything looking about same.dcm06

 

The world actually8) 

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#19 Ibacai
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cake your the best mod on the site imo. i would like the silver ps3 to come out would match my tv dvd player and 360 in a way like everything looking about same.dcm06
You got a little icing right...on your...nose there....ahh, you got it. jk jk :lol:
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#20 dcm06
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thats funny ic!
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#21 evil_naruto08
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that is actually pretty funny. have to agree with you dcm cake is a lot better mod then that casey on topic think sony should change ps3 but also make some new colors for the controllers. like blue,red,and green.
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#22 Daytona_178
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Now for gaming i prefer the 360, but i personaly think the PS3 looks better and also i believe it has better casing aswell to boot.
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#24 X360PS3AMD05
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[QUOTE="X360PS3AMD05"][QUOTE="Ibacai"]You know? I actually like the way the PS3 looks. It fits in well with my Bose entertainment center.Ibacai
That does not compliment the PS3 well :? I'll wait for it to be redesigned, cost like $200 and pick-up a bunch of cheap games. Unless my bro buys one for GOW3 beforehand.

What do you mean? Both have the same design and compliment eachother. At least in my eye they do.

No i mean Bose sucks......
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#25 dave_ps3
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Looks good when it is stood up, when flat it looks nasty. The box at the bottom ruins it and leaves the design looking uneven.
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#26 Ibacai
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that is actually pretty funny. have to agree with you dcm cake is a lot better mod then that casey on topic think sony should change ps3 but also make some new colors for the controllers. like blue,red,and green. evil_naruto08
I agree completely with the color part. I wish there were case mods for the PS3 just like the 360. That would just make my day.
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#27 Ibacai
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[QUOTE="Ibacai"][QUOTE="X360PS3AMD05"][QUOTE="Ibacai"]You know? I actually like the way the PS3 looks. It fits in well with my Bose entertainment center.X360PS3AMD05
That does not compliment the PS3 well :? I'll wait for it to be redesigned, cost like $200 and pick-up a bunch of cheap games. Unless my bro buys one for GOW3 beforehand.

What do you mean? Both have the same design and compliment eachother. At least in my eye they do.

No i mean Bose sucks......

And now you confuse me even more. To each his own I guess.
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#28 dcm06
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[QUOTE="evil_naruto08"]that is actually pretty funny. have to agree with you dcm cake is a lot better mod then that casey on topic think sony should change ps3 but also make some new colors for the controllers. like blue,red,and green. Ibacai
I agree completely with the color part. I wish there were case mods for the PS3 just like the 360. That would just make my day.

 

 that would be awesome! but really doubt that would happen but can wish. 

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#29 evil_naruto08
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[QUOTE="evil_naruto08"]that is actually pretty funny. have to agree with you dcm cake is a lot better mod then that casey on topic think sony should change ps3 but also make some new colors for the controllers. like blue,red,and green. Ibacai
I agree completely with the color part. I wish there were case mods for the PS3 just like the 360. That would just make my day.

would be cool to see customized ps3.

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#30 cakeorrdeath
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would be cool to see customized ps3.

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#32 dcm06
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[QUOTE="evil_naruto08"]

would be cool to see customized ps3.

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WOW!  

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#33 archpro
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The PS3 is pleasantly plump.
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#34 evil_naruto08
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[QUOTE="cakeorrdeath"][QUOTE="evil_naruto08"]

would be cool to see customized ps3.

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WOW!  

that looks pretty cool. is that your ps3?

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#35 cakeorrdeath
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that looks pretty cool. is that your ps3?

evil_naruto08

 I wish.

I just remembered reading about custom PS3s here. 

There is also an ebay seller who sells custom PS3s which is where that white PS3 pic is from 

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#36 dcm06
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its 7:58 am im heading to sleep going swimming in a little bit. cant believe i stayed up just posting on system wars lol. and i declare my ps2 officially dead i was playing madden 06 it frozed up and now it wont read any of my games.so now ill just use ps3 to play some ps2 games but dont know if it will play everything i guess ill just have to expirement later well anyways bye peeps.
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#37 OGTiago
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I have one, and yeah, it is huge IMO.
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#38 evil_naruto08
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[QUOTE="evil_naruto08"]

that looks pretty cool. is that your ps3?

cakeorrdeath

 I wish.

I just remembered reading about custom PS3s here. 

There is also an ebay seller who sells custom PS3s which is where that white PS3 pic is from 

ok thats cool thanks for info if i can ever save up 600$ ill get me one of those.

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#39 Guor_ok_Gondul
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I'm sure they'll make a PS3 Slimline down the track.

For now I'm happy with the design as long as the console doesn't have any overheating issues, which it probably won't since it's so large.

the-very-best

 

The only reason the PS3 is as large as it is, is the internal power supply. I mean  we have all seen the power brick of the 360 XD. The 360 should be the same size as the PS3 they just opted for less heat with an external power supply.

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#40 Lilac_Benjie
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The only reason the PS3 is as large as it is, is the internal power supply.Guor_ok_Gondul

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#41 evil_naruto08
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if that ebay user still makes those things have to check that out later watching some stuff from gametrailers.

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#42 archpro
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[QUOTE="Guor_ok_Gondul"]The only reason the PS3 is as large as it is, is the internal power supply.Lilac_Benjie

Try throwing in a powersupply into the 360, it will be the same size, if no bigger. 

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Wait, you'd chuck the BD-Rom and put in 500gb for BD content? Where's are you going to get those movies because I'm sure as hell not going to download 25-50gb for one movie. Smaller consoles =/= less load times. Consoles are practically integrated systems so they don't have to worry about BUS speed, although PS3 has 50gb/s BUS.

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Saying that a hard drive has a lower transer rate then any form of any type of media aside from things that are like hard drives is insane. HDD's will always be faster. Western digital makes a a raptor drive that is only 150 GB and is 250$ for a reason.

Disc's are cheeper and durable, those are the only reasons I can think of for why games come on disc's rather then a HDD you could just hook up to a Molex, and run a sata cable to. Its not like hooking a HDD up is hard or anthing.

Either way, its not BD content, its HD content, HD games, 50GB of date, or 50gb of anything else. Blueray isnt a type of data nor can it ever be. It just a name of a high capacity disc. One that gets more attention then the better cheeper HD-DVD, for some god awful reason.

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#45 CHRIS_K_UK
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Yes it could actually, right now it looks fat and ugly, they also need to get rid of that darn awful spiderman PS3 font.
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#46 Lilac_Benjie
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[QUOTE="Lilac_Benjie"]

[QUOTE="Guor_ok_Gondul"]The only reason the PS3 is as large as it is, is the internal power supply.archpro

Try throwing in a powersupply into the 360, it will be the same size, if no bigger.

I would much rather tuck the power supply behind the television than have it sitting on top of my digital tv box. 

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#47 Vandalvideo
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During my time that I owned a PS3 I actually liked the design a lot more than the 360. It made me feel like I actually had a quality peice of hardware. All the cleaning I had to do made me feel like I owned a porche.
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#48 -MoOkS-
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i thought it was weird looking before i brought it but when i opened it up and put it by my tv it looks orgasmically good
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#49 NobuoMusicMaker
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[QUOTE="archpro"][QUOTE="Lilac_Benjie"]

[QUOTE="Guor_ok_Gondul"]The only reason the PS3 is as large as it is, is the internal power supply.Lilac_Benjie

Try throwing in a powersupply into the 360, it will be the same size, if no bigger.

I would much rather tuck the power supply behind the television than have it sitting on top of my digital tv box.

Setting kids on fire much? 

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nah it all ready a good door stop:D