| finalsquall said: You got the Slim early!? How is it :P Add me if you like. Finalsquall |
Yeah, Sony gave everyone the OK to break the Sept. 1 street date. Amazon shipped mine on the 25th and I had paid for 2 day shipping. I do like the Slim a lot. I was a little put off by the design of the original hardware and I like the simpler style of this revision. It's smaller and thinner and looks nice in my entertainment center.
There has been some news lately about the slow disc reading for BD movies and how it's even slower on the Slim. The Engadget review said it takes something like 26 seconds to start up a movie. I am not finding that to be the case. I put the Speed Racer BluRay in tonight and it took much less time than that to get up and running. Playback looks amazing--even better than HD pay per view movies on my cable box. I have honestly never really sat down and watched a BluRay movie until I got my PS3, and while the difference between a 1080i pay per view movie and a 1080p BluRay movie isn't huge, the jump in quality is definitely noticeable. (I'm referring to the fact that you can definitely tell the video is compressed when you watch a pay per view movie because you see some boxy-ness during darker scenes and this is not present at all during BluRay playback.)
As far as games, I'm having a blast with Little Big Planet and Killzone 2. I thought I would have some difficulty adjusting to the controller after 2 years on the 360, but I don't have any trouble switching back and forth. I also forgot that my controller had the six axis thingy, so I was thrilled to be given the opportunity to use it in Killzone 2 toward the beginning of the game.
And for the kicker: After a long PS3 session tonight, I switched over to my 360 and played some Fight Night Round 4........and got a disc read error. I cleaned off the disc and restarted the game and everything was fine, but I have to wonder if this is the beginning of the end of my SECOND 360. If so, I think I got my PS3 just in time. I'll have something to play even when my 360 is off for repairs.
Anyway, I'll try to remember to add all of you guys next time I'm on PSN.
