@mindsale: No need for hard drive envy! An easily upgradable HDD is one of the better features of the PS3. Give it a whirl, and you can sneer at the 250GB SKU owners whilst you bathe in 1TB awesomeness :)

@Horusz: I'm not really a House fan but I can sort of see where you're coming from. Initially I was very resistant to the idea of Robbie Coltrane in a serious role (Cracker), and was equally unsure of David Jason (A Touch Of Frost). However, what Robbie, David, Hugh and especially his old cohort Stephen Fry have been…

He doesn't make the news, he just delivers it. Paperboy!

@Malboro: My wallet can't repel costs of that magnitude!

@tk.: The disk-only version sold just fine. What doesn't seem to be selling is the ludicrously overpriced "Limited Edition" with all the instruments. Hence the usual "quickly, before they run out!" BS intended to try an generate some kind of consumer interest.

@ps360blows: Newer PS3's (40GB phat and beyond) store the firmware at least partly on the hard drive, so you need to have a copy of the firmware on a USB key as part of the drive upgrade operation. You can download this straight off Sony's website so it's not really a hassle.

@Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair): Good luck... you'll need it!

@JTF: You could still throw your Batarang, and with a flippin' console glued to it, it would be all the more deadly :)

@WhatTheFrag: Good deal, then. A right little Christmas cracker.

@KotakuFreund: I must confess to not having seen a Slim in the wild yet, but I love the piano-esque shine of my black PS3 phat. I'm aware that the Slim is less glossy so perhaps you feel it looks cheap for this reason?

@JTF: Interesting, I didn't know that. I was under the impression that the decryption process was more of a bottleneck in getting the data stream off the HDD than the spin speed. I went with like-for-like on the RPMs just to be on the safe side.

@Gemini-Phoenix: "You'd think they'd bundle the Wolverine game with the Wolverine Blu-Ray Dvd or something - At least keep a theme to it"

@DamonOrr: You should still be OK, but since a faster spinning hard drive won't actually improve performance at all it would be pretty pointless.

@Jasman23: I was also interested in Zombie Apocalypse, but so much time passed that I've now seen the trailers for Dead Nation and I'm now going to wait for that instead. Sale lost!

@GunFlame: Nah, black is the new black :)

@Resident Diesel: Yep, you can still easily upgrade the HDD on the Slim. On a related note, I was looking at a laptop HDD on an online store and almost all of the reviews were "I bought this for my PS3 and it works great!". Perhaps PS3 owners are becoming greater consumers of laptop HDD's than actual laptop owners :)

An extra £35 gets you twice the hard drive capacity and a copy of UC2? Good deal. I upgraded my 40GB porker up to 250GB earlier this year, wasn't expecting the official SKUs to catch up quite so fast.

@InconspicuouslyConspicuous: God of War 3?

@Adhominem: Even as a PS3 fan I think it's unlikely that the 360 can be overtaken in the US. Worldwide, though, it's all to play for.

@MR. FAP☆FAP! ｡◕‿◕｡: The bigger the sphere, the more pixels that it occupies when viewed through the PSEye and the more accurately the position of its centre point can be calculated.