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@Simplexity: I bet you think this thread is about you. Don't you. Don't you.

@mitsuko_souma said:

The 60gb models had problems with overheating.

This. Its a known issue that Sony ignored, and swept under the rug, and no one made enough noise about it to get the same coverage in the media as the RRoD.

As for game saves, the PS3 has a built-in utility for transferring games...and its not against the manufacturer's or GameStop's warranty to remove the hard drive. Unlike the 360, the drive is just a SATA HD formatted for PS3 use. If you took it out and put it in a PC, you could format it to be a system drive.

If I were you, I would use whatever warranty came with your refurbished purchase and take the system back to the store to see if they can blow out more dust or maybe do more work on the device.

Or, just trade the dying thing in towards the purchase of a new system. You're going to have a tough time finding a PS2 compatible PS3 for a decent price, and your current system is *going to die soon*, leaving you without the ability to play ANYTHING PS3 related.

@buft said:

My dissapointment didnt come from the lack of games, in the UK i have no spike tv so i was forced to watch the press conferences

I don't live in the UK, but the press conferences were a big (and justified) source of some serious anger. If you have 10 minutes to devote to Usher singing like a moron, or your crappy AR technology (JK ROWLING ZOMG!!!!!1111ONEELEVEN), OR FOR BROKEN VOICE RECOGNITION (now in SPANISH), you have 10 minutes to use to show off GAMES for your GAME CONSOLE.

You have time to make The Last Of Us look like a SURVIVAL game with MORAL CHOICES rather than SHOOT DUDES IN THE FACE 2: SHOOT HARDER. You have time to make your "target audience" want to buy your $300 handheld and $350 "next-gen" motion control-centric console.

I don't get *all* of the negative vibe from people about this year's E3, but Jeff Gerstmann , and the rest of the GB crew...

There was some serious BS going on in these press conferences, and it needs to STOP. If PR and execs want to talk about crap that only other PR and execs want to hear, go reserve space in a different location and spout your buzzwords and catch-phrases there. E3 is about games.

Now, that being said, there were decent games shown off at these press conferences...some of them looked really good.

And if you didn't see something that interested you there, Giant Bomb, GameSpot, IGN, and other channels on YouTube can yield gameplay footage and interviews with developers of some of these new games. And there are more Quick Looks to come!

If you've ever read Hunger Games, Tomb Raider is definitely taking inspiration from that book. It's about a girl who's handy with a bow that gets thrown into the woods and has the s*&t kicked out of her constantly. Great book, although some may find it disturbing.

From what was shown of Star Wars 1313 it looks thoroughly unimpressive once you get past the visuals. Bog-standard, even.

Why don't you take a little bit more time to *actually read and listen* to the communities/stories/podcasts/videos/forums of multiple gaming websites before making a sweeping generalization?  
 
I mean, look at the Battleship movie-game tie-in for the 360/PS3.  When the quick look started, everyone on the GB crew, and I myself, were ready for a crapfest...
 
Instead, what we all saw was a game with some fresh ideas and decent execution that was rushed out the door and confined to a movie license.  Had the team behind the game been given more time and some decent writers, the game could be *worth* its $60 price tag.
 
And that's just one example out of hundreds of videos where perceptions of what a video game "should be" have been turned on its head.  And that is from one website, from one review team.

A couple ideas. They are running out of bad guys from Batman, so one idea is to move the series entirely into Justice League. That way you could fight villains from around the world. Another possibility is to have some incident where the heroes all disappear and Batman assembles a group of ragtags to fight the army of baddies. Also there could be a war between Earth and Earth 3 or Bizarro World. There also could be one where you play s bad guys too...just sayin.

I thought they missed out on fun story ideas along with game play by not integrating other playable characters. It is fine to have the focus be on Batman but offering side missions more along the lines of Catwoman's sections are a great idea.

Oh great. Does that mean a certain team will be making a new and "interesting" modern military FPS for THQ? ...and don't fuck with my Saints Row pretty boy.