@BritBloke916: Not that I hate Nintendo, I just couldn't resist ;)

@Szin: "Well you know what they say, Frank... sometimes, even a turd floats".

@Rinaldus: Presumably you have a PS3 phat, then? Easy wipe-down plastic :)

@ZanzibarBreeze: Nah. Zombie Presidents have no legal rights :)

@Dongus: Surely, though, you could extend the same logic to anything at all. Why shouldn't my computer, my television, my car and the roof of my house be covered by a lifetime guarantee? Provided I don't misuse any of these things, don't I have the same "right" as you're claiming for your console?

@notquitedeadyet: "Unfortunately, yes. :P"

@notquitedeadyet: Hear, hear. A magazine that does nothing but celebrity gossip will undoubtedly outsell a science magazine, but that doesn't mean that everyone wants to read celebrity gossip.

I think that Sony might be playing the long game here. I see the PSP Go as potentially a "trojan horse" device, similar to the use of the PS3 platform to push the Blu-Ray format. Regardless of whether or not the PSP Go sells, it now exists. Despite retailer objections Sony can now justify making PSP games available…

@dsectric: [en.wikipedia.org]

@kitsuneconundrum: I think they call it different things depending on the game. I've heard talk of "slam dunks", "home runs" and even "'Boom' goes the dynamite". It's just not cricket, is it old boy?

@Showmeyomoves!: Maybe he splits his time between Halo and PS3 Home?

@Mozz-eyes: Maybe all the blue washed out in the rain?

@Atherant: Oh yeah, so, you've got lots of money, but there's one thing you CAN'T buy...

@Atherant: That's always a good idea, because it encourages people that might not have otherwise bothered to hook up the PS3 to their LAN (and thus discover all the other content available on the PSN).

@Atherant: Lucky sod. As a UK resident I never had the option to just go to a store and pick up a PS3 with hardware BC (I suppose I could have imported from the US, but then I wouldn't be able to use the BBC iPlayer on my PS3!).

@GunFlame: Whilst PS2 BC has been absent for a long time, any PS3 can play PS1 games. However, finding "new PS1 games" for your bundle would probably be a challenge :)

@deanbmmv: That's a shame. It's also a shame that SSD's are unlikely to have hit a low enough price point to be installed into the next generation of consoles by default (not just for speed advantages, but also reliability since they generate almost no heat and can't suffer mechanical failure).

@GunFlame: Forewarned is fore-armed, I guess. I was doing research on the net before I upgraded the HDD in my 40GB phat and everyone was warning about how easy it was to thread the screws in the drive assembly. I didn't have any problems with them at all, myself, but perhaps that was simply because I was being extra…

@deanbmmv: True, not just yet, although no doubt it will turn up eventually. What I'd really love to see is a 2.5" 1TB SSD (for less than the price of a villa in the South of France). Take that, load times!

@Klyco: Yes, and it's still just as easy as ever. The only thing that you can't do with a Slim is install an additional OS, which is something even I (with a degree in IT and an interest in Linux) haven't bothered to do on my PS3 phat. Unlike the PS3 phat the Slim also has Bravia Theatre Sync, and since my TV is a…