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The Executive Summary:
The Good
The Bad
- The best Blu-ray player on the market
- Rock solid hardware with a minimal defect rate
- Excellent media functions across the board
- Dual Shock 3 is a great controller, with many options for creative developers
- Online store has no upper limit on size of games
- Storage is a snap to upgrade
- Excellent convergence with the PlayStation Portable
- An ever-increasing library of exclusives
- Home could make great strides in online gaming
The Ugly
- Home has seen too many delays
- Online play still doesn't measure up to Xbox
- Backwards compatibility seems to be going the way of the dodo in newer models
- Focus on media could take away from gaming aspects of the system
- Don't think that numerical scores are coming back, but since we're re-rating the hardware, I thought we'd take them out for one last hurrah, since these days the PS3 gets a...