In videos from last weekend, we learned that the PS3 fat boots itself faster than the Slim, but the Slim had the edge when it came to loading games. Now with new firmware 3.0, the Slim loads games even faster.
In this demonstration, conducted by the same source as the original testing, we see the PS3 Slim (firmware 2.8) load Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune against the PS3 Slim (firmware 3.0). The difference is considerable (you know, for adjustments to software alone), and we don’t see why most other games wouldn’t encounter similar loading improvements.
That’s gravy.
Of course, whether or not the Slim is booting or loading Blu-ray movies any faster than before is yet unmeasured (so you may have gravy without the meat and potatoes). But given that the most annoying wait times revolve around game load times, let’s just call the Slim the overall winner and be done with it (well, technically gravy can’t shouldn’t be the most vital part of a meal, so maybe this metaphor isn’t working out). [Thanks Eric!]
Erik
Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 8:44 AMthe update did not make the slim faster it made the regular ps3 slower. after the update i play killzone2 end the loding was to long i hope sony fix dis
Farrell Spence-Henderson
Friday, September 4, 2009 at 1:32 PMI am considering buying the ps3 slim, I have been a N64 and Xbox fan and never really into sony 1 or 2 as they have always been inferior consoles with mostly B-grade games with exception to Gran turismo 2 and Abes odyssey (even when ported and updated…). I hear that the ps3 fat has the best blu ray playing capabilitys-is the slim as good? The slim seems too good to be true having more memory being smaller than that monstrosity original and being cheaper… Well i will still have to put up with that shitty controller made worse with the paddle like L2 R2 buttons!!!