anyone here getting problems with what could be called "excessive fan noise"?

Lots of posts on the official playstation forums making comments, I'm going to buy one in the morning, trading in my noisy xbox so keeping fingers crossed.

here are the threads:

http://community.eu.playstation.com/playstationeu/bo...

http://community.eu.playstation.com/playstationeu/bo...

I can not even here that mine is on and never had trouble with the previous versions of playstation 3 i had [fat ones]

I only have repleced 3 xbox 360,2 elites and 1 normal..........

traded in my xbox elite, and bought the 250gig PS3 slim, and I'm very happy with it, was worried about the fan noise issiues, but looks like I'm OK.

As far as PS3 games are concerned, some argue that the Xbox 360 slim has the edge due to the late release of the PS3, although this is only temporary. PS3 will become the games console of choice for the "serious" gamer



playstation 3 slim

Actually if you want a platform for the "serious" gamer, you don't touch any console, you gear up with a good PC.

PSN's "saving grace" over xbox live is that its sub free and you don't get a free headset to open the doors to potential mouthy people. Other than that PSN is just as filled as xbl and receives inferior versions of games compared to the 360 - Case in point, black ops, fallout new vegas, etc all the big named games head for the 360 in a much better state than the PS3 ever gets them. If its multiplatform the 360 always wins out over the PS3. If you are a "serious" gamer you won't sacrifice the performance or quality.

3 years ago Falcon your points of view would have been extremly valid but developers have all but ditched the pc in favour of consoles and its the reason i switched to a 360 and Playstation 3.

Your correct in saying that the 360 gets the better versions and the playstation 3 suffers in that respect apart from Exclusive games like Killzone ,Uncharted.Little Big Planet that show that the Playstation has very much Great Power but put in the hands of laxy development companys such as Treyarch the the power is unused.

Considering the specs of the Playstation 3 are much superior to the xbox 360 then this is not good enough.

Black ops as you pointed out was a prime example and after switching from the much flawed Playstation 3 version it was like playing a different game and to some degree i enjoy it very much...............Still for me MW1 and 2 rule.

There was a time when i bought nothing but games for my PC and upgraded it nearly every couple of months just to play them,now there is very little of interest that hits the pc before the consoles with Crysis been the only exception with about 2 % of the pc gamers even able to play it in all its glory given the hardware requirments.

I would switch back to pc gaming tomorrow if the developers did the same thing but consoles like it or not are were the money is at and the pc market regrettably is in decline regarding gaming.

5 years ago everything went to pc first and was ported over many months later,sadly there is very little in the way of games for the pc that even make it considering going back.

World of Warcraft is the most popular online game that according to many is highly addictive, but unlike 5 years ago there is not that much as a gamer to carry on supporting pc games when developers are turning there attention to consoles much much more.

To Be honest Falcon i had more fun with games especially COD United Offensive than i have ever had on consoles but those days seem to have long gone.

Edited by time2die (Tue 07-Dec-10 23:16:09)

No point having hardware thats vastly superior if:

1. It's to expensive to develop to utilise it all
2. It's too hard to develop to utilise it all

I have a ps3, they could be cheaper if they didn't have better hardware just for the sake of it.

Bought Black Ops for the PS3, wish I had got it for 360. Don't know why I went for the ps3 version, a moment of madness maybe.

I was lucky that for i bought both versions of Black Ops because of different friends had both Playstation and Xbox 360.

Traded the Playstation version as my Girlfriend deceided to get that Kinect after trying it in a shop in a centre.

I suggest you trade your BO version Peeps for the Much better xbox 360 version,you will only be paying around a tenner once traded if you pick up a second hand copy of black ops on xbox

Edited by time2die (Wed 08-Dec-10 09:08:21)

Really? I'm sure valve and steam would disagree.

It isn't just treyarch who are to blame for PS3 ports being inferior to the their 360 and PC counterparts. If anyone its sonys for making the code base and hardware so complex and bloated. Sure you get exclusive games which show the platform at its best but is that enough? I say no. To date i can't think of a single game which would want me to buy a ps3, hence why i've never walked out and bought one. Just when it looks there might be theres something else which happens or comes to light and that turns me off from it.

The specs in the PS3 aren't that great, its CPU is probably its only stand point, its memory is gimpy and its gpu is subpar. Its not that great of a console despite what sony market it as.

Despite what many think the PC is far from declining, for all the main big titles its full of active players, steam is pretty much the main point of action these days, sure it might not pull in the full hoards of mouthy people i'd say thats for the better.

What i mean Falcon is the fact that many known pc developers have openly admited there defection to consoles because there is far more in the way of revenue to be gained from development of consoles opposed to the small percentage of pc players there now is.