Farnsworth

My game room smells like dog. My dog won't bathe and he always lies on the couch and the rug (not on his $50 dogbed!) and his dogsmell unfortunately permeates every inch of fabric. This is why I was looking forward to The Last Guardian.. then enjoy the fourth dimension of Smell-o-vision when the giant eagle-pup is on screen. Giant smell + Giant creature = new dimension in gaming! On this note; If TLG gets cancelled, I'm mailing Fumito Ueda my couch,. I cannot bear the disappointment of losing such an experience. :-(

It's good business sense on a couple of fronts.

I do like the design and 'professional look' of the big model tho. This new one looks a little too "toy-like".. like the PS2 Slim. Also the PS3 was a nice scalable architecture if you were into programming in Linux. It's too bad that capability has been removed, although I suspect that there is a concern that eventually the system can be hacked that way - those hackers are evil geniuses. The PSP was hacked easily without modchips.. and the PS2 can play dvd backups using only a program on a memory card and the PS2's native DVD function. :-o

Sony probably knows something we don't. Still... too bad to loose a feature.

Do we actually have anything concrete on the HDD replacement? It's just speculative that maybe that "logo" panel can be removed, but I wouldn't count my chickens before Sony told us that they were actually going to hatch.

I was planning on getting another PS3 for the basement entertainment area.. but geez.. I think I'm gonna get a fat one before they're all gone.. I'd like to have held off for awhile yet, but I am not a fan of the Slim. I'd also question it's reliability until it's been field tested in the wild for about 6 months. The PS2 slim had some overheating issues when it was first brought out as I recall. At least I know the fatty's a reliable box off the shelf.