Customer Reviews
rather disappointing! - By: foxcylady, 26 Aug 2008 
Bought this expecting great things & to be honest was a little disappointed.
Its great for playing blu ray dvds, excellent gameplay & quality picture yet the reason I only give it three stars is the disappointing load up times & the lack of online gaming.
You stand for three hoursin the pouring rain for that long awaited game at midnight, get homein the wee small hours & hey presto wait for an hour while the damn thing uploads & downloads. M mate meanwhile is an hour into his game on his xbox 360.
I have to wait for my mates to dropin for a multiplayer game, my mate plays it all the time on the xbox 360.
Had sony not won the warin the hd versus blue ray I know where I would have invested my money.
I feel a little let down to say the least & I dont mind admitting annoyed, its a bit like the pepsi versus coke war one tastes better to whoever it is that prefers it. I would only half recommend this to anyone because of the above reasons online play & download time, if you can get past those two things then its truly a nice piece of kit.
Very good! - By: ..., 24 Aug 2008 
this is a very good product from sony, even if they do charge way too much. had mine 6 months now & never crashed or had any problems, people who say they keep breaking must being doing something stupid to them.
this is well worth the money.
buy one.
Excellent console that sadly failed after two months. - By: CAZ, 20 Aug 2008 I have purchased two Ps3in the last three months, for Husband & for son.
One from Amazon the other from Toysrus.
One of them failed, (The one from Toysrus, although that's most probably not relevant),
and I believe it was the disc reader.
It does not do anything after puttingin a game or dvd, there's just a continuous loading
bubblein top right corner.
Sony collected it & replaced it with a refurbished one within two days,which is rather
annoying when the one we had was externallyin perfect condition, & the refurbished
one is badly scuffed & scratched all over the top.
It's now a matter of keeping our fingers crossed that this does not happen again, although
after an Internet search, this is not an uncommon problem.
Apart from all of that, the Ps3 is a fantastic console, that I give five stars to for the brilliant
gaming experience alone.
SIMPLY THE BETTER CONSOLE - By: Stevengerrard08uk, 19 Aug 2008 having now owned 5 xbox360s & having every single one of them break down on me after 1 month of owning i decided to take the plunge & go for the ps3, & boy am i glad i did, this machine is simply fantasticin every aspect, yes its been stripped down, but still with what you get it already is a real rival to the 360 & will soon overtake the 360 as the main console kids & adults alike will want, i hear people moaning about there only being a 40gb hard drive, well iv had the console for roughly 6 months & there has never been an issue about space, the graphics on hi def are spot on & i see no differance on assassins creed having played both the 360 & ps3 versions, & as for this screen tearing?, id love one of you to come round & show me just where this is as iv seen none of this, the ps3 games are growing & though short of the 360s there is plenty out there to keep you going, online play isnt as good as the 360 yet, but it is improving, allin all i cant find fault with anything about this console, there is no way i would ever dream of going back to the 360, doingg so would be like playing russian roulette as to weather it breaks down or not, iv owned 5 & each one has stopped recognising disks after a month of purchase, the ps3 never breaks down, doesnt over heat like the 360-or frying pan whichever you prefer to call it.
SIMPLY WORTH EVERY EXPENSIVE PENNY IT COSTS - BUY ONE OF MISS OUT IT REALLY IS THAT GOOD!!!.
Wait - By: Helpful dad, 17 Aug 2008 
amazing!!! wait till the 23rd of aug 2008 though when the new one comes - 80 GB version. 40 not enough!!! I own GT5 Prolouge & Fifa 08 (both awesome games even without HDTV amazing graphics). They both require me to update to do online & generally improve game. games better with update although for every game update took about 3gb of storage plus 9 GB system update required to create online account. Game progress saving takes hardly anything plus 80GB comes with dualshock controller - much better i am told. Overall is very good but 80 will be better
