I don't know why people think the Phat's are inevitably going to die when they have been out for 3 years and the slim has barely been out 4 months. I think that's a little premature to assume that the slim is more reliable let alone much more reliable than the phats.
I agree with everyone else that says buy all the great PS3 games that are coming out within the next few months. There are gonna be a lot of them.