Hold out for a slim?

[greenmedic88]

Selling the broken console may be your best bet actually.

If you get $200-230 for it, it would be about $150-170 less than what you would get for it working, which coincidentally happens to be the exact cost of having it repaired by Sony (what do you think buyers are doing with those broken consoles?).

When mine died, I bought a second console and then had the 60GB repaired a couple months later (received a refurbished unit in a new case about a week or so after Sony received my brick).

Now I have two working PS3s and have considered selling the 60GB since it sees minimal use and is mostly a convenience (which could fetch me about $400 used) that lets me keep two consoles hooked up to two different displays and play PS2 games (again a convenience, but hardly essential).

Personally, I'd just take the money you would spend on an Xbox and upgrade your PC (I have no idea what you're currently working with) with a current VGA card unless the Xbox exclusives are what you want.

Through 2009 it's Halo, Forza 3 and I'm not sure what else. Someone refresh my memory.

Plus the Xbox is also due for a hardware refresh next year and likely a price drop as well. If I buy another one, it will be after the launch of Natal as I have my own theories regarding pricing, bundling and hardware revisions.