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#1 CaNkER--
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Yeah....a bigger library that's increasingly hard to find on disk and WAY over priced on PSN. Besides like I said, the PS3 500gb console is cheap junk prone to failure. I can't comment on older models because I've never had any. Out of all the people I know who've bought a PS4, only one has had an issue (it stopped working half an hour after he took it out of the box and plugged it in).

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30+ hours on Skyrim and on more than one occasion. The kicker is, I STILL haven't finished the damned game!. It won't end! Oh God WHY WON'T IT END!?!

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If you're short on cash and looking for something to play, you can download Defiance for free on PSN. It's like a less crappy version of Destiny and also unlike Destiny, has a story and is actually fun to play.

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#4  Edited By CaNkER--
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PS4 for one very simple reason. The PS3 500GB console is cheap, shoddy junk.

I bought my 1st one in April 2013, it lasted less than 2 months before the power supply died. It was replaced with a brand new one that worked for a few months before the Blu ray laser burnt out. Replaced again with a brand new console that died after about six months when the hard drive began to fail. Replaced yet again with a brand new console that I took back last week because the Blu ray laser is failing.

I'm lucky because where I live (Australia) the Consumer Law requires electronics to work for 2-5 years regardless of what the manufacturer says, so I get a brand new console for free each time. If I had a choice between getting another PS3 or a PS4 I'd take the PS4 even though I've got about 40-50 PS3 games.

As far as I understand it, the PS4 has less of a failure rate (there are some issues) and it certainly has a future. Cheap/large variety of PS3 games is a redundant argument when the available selection is already on the decline. Shops like EB Games have already cleared most of their stock and you'll find it increasingly difficult to find games you're looking for unless you shop on PSN for over-priced last gen games.

I love my PS3 when it works but there's no way I could recommend it to anyone looking to buy a console for the 1st time.

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Sounds like the Blu ray laser is failing. The Last of Us is a duel layer disk as is Uncharted 3 (not sure which one you've got). If it doesn't run Blu ray movies (a large number of which are duel layer) then it's definitely the laser diode. As I'm writing this I'm waiting for my fourth console in 2 years to be replaced with a brand new fifth console for exactly the same problem (second time the laser has failed, the other 2 were power supply died and hard drive crashed).

Regardless, take it back ASAP and get it repaired or replaced while it's still under warranty.