Well, if you're unsatisfied with the 360, buy a Playstation 3. They're much cheaper now, as it is. If you don't want to drop $299 for a new console, fix the 360. If it's reasonable to do both, do both.

It boils down to me preferring Playstation controllers more. Some exclusivity and free online is great, but the controller thing for me really was the deal breaker

Just go with your instincts, you probably won't regret either.

quote undertaker4ever

I want to experience online console gaming, and I've been eyeing the PS3 slim I like it but the problem is the backward compatibility but I can forgive that are there any common bugs with Slim?

That's why I kept my PS2 along with all of its games. I have the original 60GB, backwards compatible PS3 so that it's not an issue. But if I want to play a PS2 game I can just as easily stick it in my PS2. There are a small amount of PS1 classics available for download, though. Maybe PS2 titles, but I'm not too sure on that really.

Free online is nice though, and I don't feel it's necessarily lacking behind Live to a degree that makes it wish it otherwise.

No bugs as far as I know, but I don't have the slim, so I couldn't tell ya. And I'm not Googling for them, either

I'd get the PS3 for a change of pace and then fix your Xbox whenever you can afford to. Plenty of old greats (MGS, etc.) plus tons of new games releasing right around now. It'll more than hold you over. From the looks of it 2010 is going to be a pretty great year for Sony, as well.

quote X

I thought it would just be a case of reinstalling the official firmware on it. [From what you said I thought you had put on custom firmware to play digital copies of games.]

I wish it was, it's something else that I can tell you about and get reported for it, all you need to know is that it's not a free fix because I don't know how to do it.

Uh, have you actually played on XBL before? It's just as bad, if not worse.