4th November 2004, 2:03 PM
I'd go with the old model, just for HD support. Who knows, one day you might actually GET one, or use that special HD loader software (unofficial) to format any spare hard drives you might have into PS2 format.
Plus, as you mentioned, it has front loading. That's just plain better design. Nintendo purposefully saved money with top loading, and Sony is too with this new remodel, but there's a reason they would go about designing systems with more expensive front loading. It's just plain safer design! The only negative is the added moving parts for opening and closing the drawer, but that's not going to result in disk read errors (trust me on this, I've seen many a disk drive for PC where the motors for the tray have been completely decimated, but by simply brute forcing the tray back in, I find the drive will still READ just fine (so long as the spindle motor and laser motor are both working, it's all good). The main reason it's safer, of course, as I've said, is simply beause all the sensitive stuff is inside the system instead of outside. No need to worry about damaging the lense or motor or anything else, and more than that, no need to worry about the environment damaging it, such as dust suddenly falling in there or whatnot. But hey, you already agree with me so hey, whatever. (Dere be da reason why da hardware makers always use that style unless trying to save money or shrink the device.) Now, as for the fact that a front loader also saves space in your entertainment center, or whatever, never had that problem. Who really has a big arse stack of stuff sitting next to their TV like that?
The very first models did pretty poorly, but from what I can tell the newest of the old models pretty much cleared everything up. I STILL have no idea why everyone thinks Sony hardware always falls apart. I mean, every single Sony product I own happens to be in perfect working order. I still use my PS1 from time to time with not a single problem, and that's a top loader, so you'd think some time over the course of me owning it something terrible would have happened to the lense or spindle. My PS2 also works just fine, and I recall at least once getting up and accidently kneeing the disk drive :D. I have never once recieved a disk read error. Oddly enough, ALL my friends have had to get new PS2s. I believe they were all early adopters though, so maybe I just got a later model when they fixed everything. I know that's the case with my PS1. Perhaps the general rule is Sony always releases prototypes and the final working version is always released later when the older ones have already exploded/developed independant thought and gone on a killing spree, consisting of... well maybe blinding someone with the laser when they look over it, I'm not really sure how a Playstation could manage to actually hurt someone...
Plus, as you mentioned, it has front loading. That's just plain better design. Nintendo purposefully saved money with top loading, and Sony is too with this new remodel, but there's a reason they would go about designing systems with more expensive front loading. It's just plain safer design! The only negative is the added moving parts for opening and closing the drawer, but that's not going to result in disk read errors (trust me on this, I've seen many a disk drive for PC where the motors for the tray have been completely decimated, but by simply brute forcing the tray back in, I find the drive will still READ just fine (so long as the spindle motor and laser motor are both working, it's all good). The main reason it's safer, of course, as I've said, is simply beause all the sensitive stuff is inside the system instead of outside. No need to worry about damaging the lense or motor or anything else, and more than that, no need to worry about the environment damaging it, such as dust suddenly falling in there or whatnot. But hey, you already agree with me so hey, whatever. (Dere be da reason why da hardware makers always use that style unless trying to save money or shrink the device.) Now, as for the fact that a front loader also saves space in your entertainment center, or whatever, never had that problem. Who really has a big arse stack of stuff sitting next to their TV like that?
The very first models did pretty poorly, but from what I can tell the newest of the old models pretty much cleared everything up. I STILL have no idea why everyone thinks Sony hardware always falls apart. I mean, every single Sony product I own happens to be in perfect working order. I still use my PS1 from time to time with not a single problem, and that's a top loader, so you'd think some time over the course of me owning it something terrible would have happened to the lense or spindle. My PS2 also works just fine, and I recall at least once getting up and accidently kneeing the disk drive :D. I have never once recieved a disk read error. Oddly enough, ALL my friends have had to get new PS2s. I believe they were all early adopters though, so maybe I just got a later model when they fixed everything. I know that's the case with my PS1. Perhaps the general rule is Sony always releases prototypes and the final working version is always released later when the older ones have already exploded/developed independant thought and gone on a killing spree, consisting of... well maybe blinding someone with the laser when they look over it, I'm not really sure how a Playstation could manage to actually hurt someone...
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