
What is the difference between the PS3 Phat and PS3 Slim? Is it the look, the price or the content? Well, actually is is all of those things. The new PS3 Slim has everything the older model (Phat) has plus more. The only difference is that the Phat version dropped in price by £50 the moment the Slim was released. The price of the new Slim PS3 is £249.99 and has hit the market with a bang and I am sure it will be met with great response.
The PS3 Slim is 32% smaller and 36% lighter than the older version. It has a much faster processor which was jointly developed by Sony, IBM and Toshiba and is less power hungry than the Phat PS3.
It has more storage with 120 GB hard disk storage which is useful as Sony are now encouraging you to download their games. It has enhanced audio with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD for superb audio quality.
However, on the downside, the new Slim PS3 does not have PS2 compatibility as Sony feel that people would have stopped playing and buying PS2 games at this stage. It has no Linux support so is not abel to install other operating systems. The Slim is still only available in black. The HDMI ports are unchanged and both USB ports are on the front.
Overall Supa Swap think the PS3 Slim is much sleeker and is great value too, but I do think that, at £50 off, the old PS3 is well worthwhile as it still looks the part and you can play your old-time favourites from the PS2.





