PS3: 40GB or 80GB ?

[Guest]

I don't know If I can create a topic about this here,but . . .

I'm going to buy a ps3
But I don't know which one of them I should buy,a 40GB or a 80GB

What do u think?

Thanks and sorry for anything

[Darkmoon]

Well, apart from having more hard drive, as I understand it the 80gig has all the bugs ironed out that the 40 and 60 gigs suffered from. Essentially it's a more reliable choice.

[Biohazard EX]

Umm... As I understand it, the 80 and 40 gig is the same model.

I have the 60 Gig, and I absolutely love it. What bugs?

[Sephiroth]

The 40 and 80 GB have the same system but the 80GB has more space I have the 60GB I havent got any bug.

[Darkmoon]

Apparently the disc tray has started going. It's why the first PS3 I bought died. It couldn't read any discs.

I'm basing my knowledge mostly on gaming shop minions, though. How accurate they are...

[beasley23803]

Im planning on buying a ps3 in February, I too want to know every single thing that I need to watch out for!

[Biohazard EX]

Well, I've had my 60 gig for 1.5 years now, use it frequently and it's caused me no troubles at all...

It was, in fact, my Wii that had problems reading disks, 2 weeks after I bought it.

[Sephiroth]

Im planning on buying a ps3 in February, I too want to know every single thing that I need to watch out for!

What ever you do doint turn the PS3 off from the back while you are playing on a game or the memary data of that game is cruppted and you have to do that game all over again I did that with Soul caliber 4 and I lost every thing I had to start all over again and I was really anoyed so just be care ful not to do at.

[Guest]

My wii SUCKS!!
It's not reading my games ¬¬

I know the basic difference between both,but I wanna know somethings like:

-Both read blue-ray/DVD?
-PS3 have any problem? (Like wii's brick and X360' red lights)

[Biohazard EX]

Nothing in particular, no. I mean obviously some PS3s break down, all systems break down for various reasons. But the PS3 doesn't really have any quirks that are common to a large percentage of the systems.

Umm... I know it reads Blu-Ray... Does the new version read DVDs?

[Gradon]

All versions of PS3 read standard DVD's.

[Biohazard EX]

Then yes. I still think extra $200 to make the PS3 fully backwards compatible (like the 60 gig version) was worth it.

[Vector]

I don't know what "bugs" people were talking about with the 60GB, but I haven't had any hardware-related issue. *knock on wood*

Only problems I've had have been software-related thanks to shoddy developing. *knock-knock on wood*

[Biohazard EX]

Yeah, I actually don't think I've ever bought a Sony product that had any problems with it.

[Zombie_X]

It's best to get a 40GB, then buy a bigger HDD.

Currently... I bought a new "open box" PS3 from Best Buy for $350 (5 months back), then bought a 160GB HDD from ebay for $60. Well worth it. You need all that extra space cause most PS3 game at least need need 500MB-1GB of storage space, and you will run out of room quick on a 40GB.