The best news for PlayStation fans in a long time. Listed below are some advantages: There is zero backlash in the construction. Power supply integrated (unlike Xbox). An ingenious column and touchpad-like joystick that are both comfortable to use. Easy HDD swapping that doesn't take long. There is a manageable amount of background noise, and there aren't any unnecessary "reads" of the disk 400 times throughout a single game. Arguments against it: Unlike previous generations, modern video games are stored on a hard disk drive (HDD) rather than being played directly from a disc. The disks I naively bought have rendered my 500GB HDD unusable for all but a select few games.