We've been told by numerous sources who got their very own PS3 test unit that the system is darn quiet, nearly silent. Well, that may or may not be true. Check out this video from some guy taping his PS3 sit there and sounding quiet. Maybe I had the volume up too loud, but it wasn't silent. It definitely wasn't loud -- heck, it sounded far better than my PS2 does right now (thanks to the seasonal influx of RPG's... my ultimate weakness). While I'm on a personal rant, let me say this: if my buddy played his 360 as much as my PS2 has seen action in the past month, he could not only fry eggs on it, but it would have burned a hole right through his floor. Anyway.The video starts out with listening to the PS3 run idle, apparently, since no game is loaded. The narrator, with his superb (read: shaky) camera skills moves us around the unit and alerts us when he loads up a game. Probably a demo disc that was already inserted, since he keeps saying "now it's loading the game" then "now its loading this" and "that" then "the game" then this/that and finally "the game" again. Lots of loading. Lots. Let's hope is was one of those multi-demo game discs you see at electronics stores and not just... what was that, NBA Live? Whatever. What do you guys think? The narrator keeps boasting about the silence of the system, but what of all of you?
[thanks, Chris!]
