360 Slim UK release surpases PS2, PS3 Slim launches, says Chart-Track

To be fair I need more then 60G. Between RB Songs, general DLC, XBLA, Games on Demand, and a few TV shows here and there … I need the bigger HDD.

I already own the FF 250bundle elite one.

But imo 60G is a bit small for a regular player.

It would be nice if we could put our own HDDs in there ala the PS3. I’d have a 1TB bad boy in that thing.

I upgraded from a 60GB to a 250GB drive just last weekend. You’d be surprised how few demos/XBLA games/DLC packs/game installs it takes to fill that space up.

I bought a massive shitload of Arcade titles over the weekend to start filling out the HDD.

DeathSpank, Battlefield 1943, Blacklight (although I already had a code for that), South Park (which I also had a code for) and even Burnout 3: Revenge from Xbox Originals.

I forgot how awesome that game is.

Maybe it’s time I started getting a move on with DLC tonight while I am away watching Toy Story 3. Maybe the PDLC story stuff for Mass Effect 2 that I haven’t bothered buying yet.

Then we’ll see where the flow takes me from there.

I filled up 120gb quite easily. But then I have got somewhere in the order of 150+ XBLA / Indie Games. Not to mention all the installs (only for games I’m playing).

I could see 250gb being useful.

you’re buying a $300 wifi adapter. Lets be real here people. Theres still no Blu-ray for better looking games. The machine still over heats like crazy and shuts off whenever it wants to lol. 250GB is shit compared to the 100 4GB 1080P HD M2TS files I have all stored on my PS3′s 1TB HDD.

….to make it short its a joke. Its a slap in the face. The XBOX 360 should have had wifi built in since 2005. This is just a cheap tactic M$ had planned since the launch of the 360. $300 isn’t big money, but I refuse to pay $300 for a built in wifi adapter. More power to the XBOX hardcore enthusiast. Now you game online like PS3 and Wii users anywhere in your house.

So don’t buy one Tea.

A couple of things.

My blu ray games on my ps3 do NOT look any better then the ones I own for xbox360. They just don’t. Your fooling yourself if you think they do.

Personialy I don’t WiFi if I can help it. My PC is plugged in, my xbox360 is plugged in and my PS3 is plugged in. It simply said gives me a more steady and reliable signel.

The Wii is the Wii, for what I use it for online it is functional and because I don’t play game online w/it its no biggie.

On a side note one of my sons has the WiFi adaptor for xb360. The wife doesn’t want a cord running through the house. So he bought one. It works. Once in awhile he loses his conection when he is Netflixing(but he has the same trouble with the PS3).

As far as MS planning to do an upgrade and rake people over the coals. You mean like the PS2 not offering internet play when the Dreamcast did with its launch? And how they scoffed at MS for pushing broadband with every xbox one?

I highly doubt either company sat back and planned out upgrades, redesigns and add ons. I do however think that every hardware company looks at trends and market conditions and adapts their gameplan accordanly.

lol. Microsoft is smart.
They knowingly release a faulty system and say they didnt know that it had those problems. It was a business plan. “Let’s make them fragile so that they would get replaced by the people without patients for our warranty system. that way word gets out that we are selling a lot and so others will join in.” Then they release this BETTER version that includes everything the original 360 should have and so the 360 fans go out an buy it willingly without recognizing that Microsoft has them by the balls.

I love Microsoft

I highly doubt either company sat back and planned out upgrades, redesigns and add ons.

Go do your homework some more. Anyone with a brain and common sense saw this coming from M$. This was planned at the beginning. This new redesigned was made to be the final edition of a 4 planned sku by M$. They left hints everywhere.

As far as me buying one, I will buy one. Just not for $300 for a built in wifi antenna. If you were offended by my logic because you ran out bought one to only realized you just wasted $300 + tax on a built in wifi antenna than that’s your stupidity.

Don’t come at me for having an opinion most would agree to. If you have a good working (3% of us out there ) 360 then there’s little reason to upgrade. Its just a piano black elite with a built in wifi antenna. Good for you if you bought one and still good for you if you didn’t.

But look on the bright side. When your original 360 Red Rings again you don’t have to wait 2 weeks to play Halo or whatever. Before sending it back to M$ you just slide off the HDD and attach it to the other 36…..oops sorry

Also Blu-ray games can look better than any 360 game any day of the week. Its up to the devs. The extra texture work alone can make the PS3 version of games look better.

dont know how this got to blu ray, but with all that extra space (currently up to 10 times a dvds max), ofc the details COULD look better & i’d like to see more devs make use of this, tho i doubt any multiplat dev ever will

“Also Blu-ray games can look better than any 360 game any day of the week. Its up to the devs. The extra texture work alone can make the PS3 version of games look better.”

Seriously? Are you sure the PS3 can afford the extra memory high resolution textures require?

Keep telling yourself that, TEA, and it might actually come true…

It got to Blu-ray when he made that foolish comment about PS3 games not looking better than any 360 I guess.

Obviously that FFXIII 360 bundle he got had a special fairy dust edition disc that made it look better than the average PS3 counterpart. He obvisouly also hasn’t played Uncharted 2, or Heavy rain, or GOW3, or KZ2, or seen GT5, or heard that they’re releasing another KZ next feb, or missed inFamous2 screens the past 4-5 weeks. IDK.

But my point being in comment #55 was that this new 360 just isn’t worth the $300 price tag cause all it has over the standard 360 is a built in wifi antenna. Whooop dee doo its not worth a $300 upgrade to (me)….me is the key word people. And from all the videos we’ve seen all over the net it still scratches disk and over heats like hell.

@TEA, Blu ray can’t make visuals look better. Uncharted 2 and GOW 3 looks great because the engine devs created is outstanding.

If you are talking about memory that can fit textures or speed up technology, i’m sorry. How much PS3 have MB Ram? 256 MB XDR for @ 3.2 GHz cores and 256 MB GDDR3 @ 700 MHz for the GPU that can access the CPU, in summ 512 MB Ram (my first PC with Geforce graphics card at 2002 LOL) so what that means?

Speeding up is impossible, so your blu ray can go fuck off. With blu ray you can decrease loading times, add more content but thats it. Blu ray is not a magical disk that includes morphological anti aliasing, it’s just a 70 cent Optical media.

@ Erth
Relax dude and realize what bluray offers besides the obvious. Because of the size of the bluray The GPU in the PS3 isnt required to decompress so much data that it gets overworked. Actually, somewhere around 50% of 360s GPU power is spent on decompressing data. So in a way, PS3 can handle more textures because its GPU doesnt have to focus its power on decompressing data. Cant say the same for multiplats because most devs, to save cost and time, leave the data compressed when recording it to the BluRay. Also, the PS3′s cell preocessor is the only processor out that has 6 cores that can individually render graphics. So yes, with the space allowed by Bluray, the PS3 can handle the extra quality.

Yep This is why people dont write on forums no more.

The best looking game I’ve played on a console is Alan Wake.

No bluray involved there.

Tea you my friend are delusionial.

“Go do your homework some more. Anyone with a brain and common sense saw this coming from M$. This was planned at the beginning. This new redesigned was made to be the final edition of a 4 planned sku by M$. They left hints everywhere.”

I think redesigns happen. When newer chipsets and cheaper manufacturing costs become avalible, companies take advantage of them. Just like the NES(and almost every other system ever made) has done. No doubt that a “slim” version of both xb360 and PS3 were in the cards from day one.

But what your implying is that MS withheld features that they knew people wanted simply to pack them in later to spike sales. I think alot of companies take a wait and see approach to some things. MS is not embracing 3D. If 3D takes off and becomes a “must have” feature they will no doubt include it in future systems. The same type of thing Sony did with first online then broadband. Heck didn’t Sony and MS scouf at motion controls? Now look at em. Move is a direct rip off fo the Wii. But I bet Sony sat back and took that wait and see attitude, while at the same time doing RnD, in order to see if they could even go those routes if they wanted to. I am sure MS could put BluRay in the xb360, but they may have thought that doing so will not be adventagious to do it.

Ok next up i didn’t buy a new xb360. I wrote that I had already bought one of the FF Bundles. I also wrote that I don’t even use wiFi. I get a better conection with cords. Even on my PS3.

“Don’t come at me for having an opinion most would agree to. If you have a good working (3% of us out there ) 360 then there’s little reason to upgrade.”

I am not coming at you for anything. I agree that if you already have a working system, you should stick with that. Where I do take notice, is that the 3% thing. Typical you tho. Blown way out of proportion to favor the PS3. RRoD happens(pst PS3s break too). But 97% of the gaming population of xb360 gamers do not have defective systems.

“But look on the bright side. When your original 360 Red Rings again you don’t have to wait 2 weeks to play Halo or whatever. Before sending it back to M$ you just slide off the HDD and attach it to the other 36…..oops sorry”

See above. In my home we have 4 xb360s. I have two teenage sons, one of my own and the Alan Wake one that I won here on VG247. If one broke I would likly attach the HDD from the broken one to the extra one we have and roll with it.

Things are not made today like they used to be made. I went thro a stupid number of PSones, PS2s, XBoxones, etc. I am stilling using the launch SNES. Everything is gonna break if you use it enough. This gen I have replaced the same number of PS3s and Xb360s. One each.

“Also Blu-ray games can look better than any 360 game any day of the week. Its up to the devs. The extra texture work alone can make the PS3 version of games look better.”

Yes some PS3 games look better for sure. But it isn’t miles apart. Some xb360 games look better too. Again not drastic differences. It is just that you go nuts over this stuff. And the rest of us(excluding the xbox nuts, they are as bad as you )look at both games from both systems and don’t see a difference. On my life I can not tell a difference between systems graphicly. I can however say that many mulitplatform games suffer from sloppy ports on the PS3. Unlike you, I don’t just blame the devs, i blame Sony as well. For making a system that was not easily programible. That is their fault.

These people doing sloppy ports. they don’t want their games to look bad or run with poorframe rates. It makes their product look bad. It holds back sales. And they are pretty fond of sales. They do, however have limited rescources and with working with what they have they can not spend the time, man power, or cash it all takes to smooth out the PS3 version. The samething happend last gen, and prolly every gen. I remember comparisions of Mortal Kombat SNES VS Gen.

There is a target lead program system. And then they port from there. PS3 has not been the lead programing system this gen. I am sure that ticks you off but it is the way it is.

You have so much poison. So much hate. Over … toys. Who makes one system or the other. I am not going to respond to this any further. It just irritates me.

Oh boy now this PC jackass has to add his 2 cents (I just should have STFU )

You people are truly trying to down play Blu-rays significance. I’m sorry to take it out of topic but whether it has to do with fitting data all on one disk or whatever this new 360 doesn’t have anything other than a built in wifi antenna that justifies me purchasing a new overpriced console that’s outdated like crazy.

But go ahead and turn this into a Blu-ray thing if you want. My statement still stands true about what O.G. said. FFXIII looks better on PS3 and he seems to not believe that for some reason.

If you traded in your original 360 for credit toward this machine then I guess you look less of a fool, but if you fully went out and bought it and still have a good working one at home (3% of us on the planet ) you’re a dumb ass who just wasted $300 on a fucking little cheap ass $10 made in china or india wifi antenna. ITS NOT WORTH IT RETARDS!

@65 http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/denial/SR00043

Gonna ask Garratt if we can start a fund raiser for you on the site later to help pay for the treatments.

“You have so much poison. So much hate. Over … toys. Who makes one system or the other. I am not going to respond to this any further. It just irritates me”.

Funniest thing I’ll probably read all day to be honest

“You have so much poison. So much hate. Over … toys. Who makes one system or the other. I am not going to respond to this any further. It just irritates me”.

Funniest thing I’ll probably read all day to be honest ”

lol yea I guess so, anyways have fun. Ima go play some actual games. Later.

“FFXIII looks better on PS3 and he seems to not believe that for some reason”

Jesus, you are stupid. It was designed first for PS3 thats why it looks better, while Red Dead Redemption on Xbox 360 DVD looks better on Xbox 360.
I have DVD on my PC and every fucking game on PC looks better than on consoles combined.

Oh my… It’s Just… a D V D. O_O There is no need Blu ray for games and there is no single game on Blu Ray on PC yet.

Like OG said: “You have so much poison. So much hate. Over … toys.”

All the consoles have strengths and weaknesses and none are perfect. It depends on preference at the end of the day, fanboysim is started when people cant see that all the consoles have the said strengths and weaknesses.

For example ive heard people say Live is better then Psn based on what? your opinion, or Sony make the better games then Microsoft again based on what its just opinion.

@ Hindle, i 100% agree, got my ps3 as my main gaming console & media player (prefer it over pc, just auto plays in what ever way you have it, such as alphabetical order), also have my pc for browsing & certain games (rts & other what i would consider casual games) & i am also planning on getting a 20gb pro for some of the few 360 games coming out (Reach, Gears & maybe Fable) & if it ever comes out, i’d purchase asap a psp2 for portable gaming, tho if i hear no news of it b4 the 3DS release, i’ll consider getting a 3DS, which would be dumb on Sony’s part not to announce a successor to the psp b4 the release of the 3DS cuz they’d lose many of it’s fans, i dont think everybody wants to own both consoles & i’m sure many are willing to wait for a Sony console (look @ the ps2)

360 owners are getting a bit emotional..

Funny Triple H but lets not start a useless flame war for nothing.

@74 OH SHIT! This is such a PURE WIN. *saved*

@74 LMAO. Seriously though, when the price drops i’ll pick one up (hopefully before Gears 3!!)