Help picking out a PS3 SKU?

[CaffeinePowered]

Yea I plan on getting a 60 gig by the end of the month. I'll probably get one along with one of those people who sell a shit ton of games.

By the way, hate to get off topic, but I might be putting my Wii on Ebay soon. Do you guys think it'll be worth it?

As a cardinal rule, never ever sell hardware unless its for food/rent money

You know as soon as you turn around and sell it, something awesome will be announced and you'll have to go rebuy it, probably making you suffer a loss to do it. Murphy's law is a harsh, but fair mistress.

[cbre88x]

As a cardinal rule, never ever sell hardware unless its for food/rent money
You know as soon as you turn around and sell it, something awesome will be announced and you'll have to go rebuy it, probably making you suffer a loss to do it. Murphy's law is a harsh, but fair mistress.

Good point.

[Scary Womanizing Pig Mask]

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From what I understand, and don't hold me to this, is that the original SKUs (the 20 and 60 gigs) had actual ps2 hardware in it for backwards compatibility.  All SKUs after have software emulation and aren't 100%.  I know its not that hard to switch out the ps3 HDD in the original SKU as well so that is what you want if possible.

SKU Explination


60 Gig - PS2 Hardware built in, Card reader, Wireless LAN

20 Gig - PS2 hardware built in, no card reader, wired LAN

80 gig - NO PS2 hardware, software emulation 66% - 75% emulation ability, wireless(?)

40 gig - No PS2 hardware, no software emulation, wired(?)


Listed in order of fail from least to most, use eBay, I bought a BROKEN 360 on Ebay for $75, sent it to MS and they fixed it for free, just had to buy a HDD, controller, and video cables. Came out to $250 when all was said and done, bought it all on eBay and I got a Premium package for the same price as a Wii.

When you buy something on ebay you GET the warranty with it, it transfers with the product, if it is no longer under warranty and advertised to work, its not hard to lodge a complaint and get your money back, just check to see their seller rating, if its modestly high odds are you are very safe.
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I'll check out the listings for the 60 GB than, I'm still hoping that I'll be able to find one for sale, but I'm starting to doubt the feasibility of that.

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$450 - Ends in 8 hours

[Scary Womanizing Pig Mask]

$450 - Ends in 8 hours

Thanks Caff, but I found a new 80 GB Metal Gear Solid 4 Bundle, and went for it. I know the 60GBs better, but I'd rather buy a new one than one from eBay, and at least it's better than the 40GB version. If anyone else wants to pick up the bundle you can do so here via Circut City. Don't know how long they'll have them in stock though.

[HuckBerryGee]

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$450 - Ends in 8 hours

Thanks Caff, but I found a new 80 GB Metal Gear Solid 4 Bundle, and went for it. I know the 60GBs better, but I'd rather buy a new one than one from eBay, and at least it's better than the 40GB version. If anyone else wants to pick up the bundle you can do so here via Circut City. Don't know how long they'll have them in stock though.
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got mine as well

[ScottyGrayskull]

I took advantage of the "borrow from a friend and rent the game" offer. It was unfortunately a pretty limited time offer done as an unadvertised sale though, so it's too late to take advantage of it.