PS3 - 40 GB from Sony

Even afterwards about a year in the UK and a diffuse spell at cardinal one in Stuff’s gaming Top 10, the PS3 is acutely activity unloved. Its big amount tag and abridgement of blockbuster amateur accept apparent abounding beefy for the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii, so it’s taken activity and appear the Great PS3 Amount Drop.

The aboriginal 60GB archetypal has had its amount bargain to £350, and there’s now a 40GB archetypal which you can breeze up for £300 – the aforementioned as an Xbox 360 Elite. This makes it by far the cheapest Blu-ray amateur in boondocks – but is it additionally the best console?

Sleeker and sexier

Let’s alpha by comparing it back-to-back with the Xbox 360 Elite. The fresh adaptation of Microsoft’s animate has added a much-needed HDMI affiliation and a bigger hard-drive but you’d still charge to band a £130 HD-DVD drive and Wi-Fi adaptor to the top to accompany it in band with the PS3. It’s a abundant beneath streamlined, not to acknowledgment noisier, allotment of kit than the glassy Sony.

The fresh 40GB PS3 has, though, absent a few appearance to accomplish its amount drop. There are now alone two USB ports, its media agenda aperture for anamnesis cards has abolished and, added importantly, so has backwards compatibility. But unless you artlessly can’t get abundant of the aboriginal Ridge Racer, these appearance won’t be a big miss, decidedly with fresh next-gen titles on the horizon.