My PS3 Slim competition has finished and the results are in!

Congratulations to @ozzlo33 – you’ve won yourself a free PS3 Slim, or cash/voucher equivalent if that suits you better.  Check your direct messages!

A huge thanks to everyone who entered,  posted comments, Tweeted and Re-Tweeted, I’ve got over 600 new followers of @Gadgets4nowt and that takes the total over 1,000.

Have a great Christmas and prosperous 2010.

Steve

The demos are out and the early winner in this year’s football battle appears to be…..well, as ever, opinions are divided, it truly is a game of two halves!

Both look stunning on my  free PS3 Slim!

What has perhaps surprised me talking to friends online is that some of the PES fanboys are talking about changing camps.  One even went as far as saying, “I may have to buy FIFA 10 for the first time in 15 years, Konami have just stagnated with PES and its been below par since they made 2008.”

FIFA 10 has 360 movable players, its smooth and passing is precise, with some great subtle changes; even the referee moves out of the way of the ball and players stick a leg out to block.

Skilled dribbling is also another incredible advancement in FIFA 10. As another of my online friends, a FIFA fanboy said, “I can’t wait to use the arena once the game is out, the players are balanced speed wise and now you can build up play. The AI is better at defending and finally use skill moves as well as jockey.

•    Messi is amazing.
•    Chelsea has a brutish team.
•    Xavi’s pass range is spectacular
•    Klose and Toni are top dogs in the air.
•    Lampard is finally always in and around the box.

FIFA 10 BABY!”

I can’t argue with any of that but personally thought that the new PES 2010 looked much better than the last one and just “felt slicker” than FIFA 10.

The jury is out but I will take a lot of convincing, PES forever!

For the first time in decades, gamers have the opportunity to pay the same amount for very similar competing consoles: just $299 for the powerful PS3 Slim or the impressive Xbox 360 Elite.  Both come equipped with 120GB hard drives, limited backwards compatibility, and one controller.

The PS3 Slim has the ability to play Blu-Ray discs, huge to anime and movie buffs, and also includes built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth – definitely winning the hardware comparisons.  The only place that the PS3 Slim falls behind is in the number of available USB ports – it boasts only 2 vs. the Xbox’s 3.  But it’s smaller, lighter, and the online-play option is free (it’s $50 a year for the Xbox Elite.)

On the other hand, the Xbox 360 Elite has something that the PS3 lacks — GAMES.  The PS3 has some impressive titles — Final Fantasy XIII, Genji: Days of the Blade, Grand Tourismo 5, Heavenly Sword, and Jak and Dexter: The Last Frontier are all PS3 exclusive.  Don’t leave out the ba-jillion PS1 games that the PS3 is backwards-compatible with, too!  But that’s just not really a list that’s able to compete with the powerhouse that is the Xbox 360 Elite’s massive list of over 175 exclusive games, including Bullet Witch, DDR Universe 1, 2, and 3, Dead Or Live: Code Chronos, Full Auto, the Halo series, the Project Gotham Racing franchise, the bizarrely fun Viva Piñata games, and many, many more.  Let’s not also forget that, while Xbox Live is pricer than the PS3 Slim’s alternative, it’s also much, much more robust.

In the end, the comparison comes down to a matter of faith: if you’re willing to trust Sony to use it’s resources to come up with games that are good enough to match wits with Gears of War (Uncharted?), Mass Effect (Fallout?) and the rest of the Xbox 360 Elite’s lineup, than the PS3 Slim seems like a good move.  If you’re more inclined to believe that the software giant Microsoft can use it’s leet skillz to overcome the hardware gap between the Elite and it’s competition, go with the Xbox 360 Elite.

Me, I’m going for both, but I’m crazy that way (and can get them free here !)