The PS3 is an excellent piece of kit. The three main benefits over the Xbox is reliability, quiter cooling fans and no fee's for the Playstation Network, unlike Xbox LIVE. The Blu Ray player is exceptional and of course this could not have been left out of the machine as all the games are in Blu-Ray format. The new slim does not have the looks of the older systems but if it is truely 33% better for the enviroment due to less power consumption, then this may be the factor that would suit your criteria.
I have run both an Xbox 360 next to a PS3 on identical Series 6 Samsung tv's, the game I used to compare was Call Of Duty 5: World At War. The graphics appear identical.
With the latest updates to the Playstation Network I would personally say that it is slightly better than the Xbox LIVE network.
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Sony PlayStation 3 60GB
Rating: 5 / 5
Value for money: 5 / 5
