CD Player- If everyone doesn’t own 3 by now than you shouldn’t be in this forum. I have something like 20 CD players.

DVD Player- Again I own 7 DVD players. Everyone again should have 2 or more.

PC functionality- My PC has way more functions than the PS3. I own 2 PCs right now. The vast majority has a PC for online functions.

Backwards Compatibilty – I have 2 PS2s in my house and I believe my PSone still works. The fact of the matter is that I haven’t played a PSone game in 6 years and I haven’t played a PS2 game in 2 years. It can be a nice feature for a very small population of gamers.

Consoles are supposed to be cheap. They are FOR GAMING first and foremost. The added functionality should be built with gaming in mind. Everything the 360 is for gaming. If some of these features fall into the other aspects for homes it is only a plus. Ipod compatibilty is great for games. Turning on your own songs in a racing game is clutch (EA can really put some crap music in their games). The fact that the 360 saves me a $100 Home Theatre Ipod setup kit is an added bonus. Sony really screwed up. Microsoft got what it needed in the 360 to perform gaming tasks. How can you say Sony needs all that crap?

The PS3 does not need Blu-Ray. You can shout it from the mountains but informed gamers should know better. When the Largest GTA game on PS2 was III than you know compression has gotten better. This has been the story of the last generation.

I have a PSP & at the minute I only use it for the games but if I had a wireless router I would use it for checking my emails & other basic online stuff. However Sony did make a big mistake with the whole UMD fiasco which hasn’t helped the PSP at all but the PSP is not a failure not by a long stretch of the imagination.

About the DC, I don’t think broadband would have made much difference. What ppl knew back then was dailup. But you did make a good point overall.

Let me clearify something about BR. Its not just me that doesn’t care about the next format. Millions don’t! I read a lot of professional publications (I don’t mean Gamepro) about these things so I’m not just speaking for the hell of it. The general consesus amongst all these materials is that next format is not garnering enough consumer interest to matter; to matter to the PS3. And you don’t have to read something to see that. Peep out the PSP. It is a great device that has been handicapped by Sony’s insistence on making this thing a swiss army electronic device. All the PSP’s major abilities have been overlooked by what the audience perceives it to be. With PSP, Sony has demonstrated that they lack the ability to properly market such a device. If Sony where to focus on the PSP gaming strenghts from day one, it could have been in a lot stronger position to toot its other multimedia functions. The PS3 could fall victim to the same disease that afflicted the PSP; certainly not as easily. Sony doesn’t exactly strike me as an entity that readily learns and adapts its strategies from its mistakes….

I’m not comparing the PS3 with the 360 & especially not the Wii. They are all different beasts. When the Dreamcast came out high speed internet connection wasn’t cheap or widely available so is it no surprise that web browsing didn’t take off on the Dreamcast.

The gaming world has changed massively since the PSone days thanks in part to Xbox Live & the age of downloadable content (which I also don’t have any interest in at the minute) but that’s the way gaming is heading like it or not.

And with regards to PCs how much will it cost to get a PC with the same functions as a PS3? I’ll tell you how much it would cost me over here in the UK: way more than £1000.

So like I said initially if you don’t like the price don’t get a PS3.

Now lordxixor101, I agree with everything you say. However the BRD is being used for games so everything that’s in the PS3 will be used by gamers. So to me the price IS high but it’s worth it & I will be getting one.

I agree with you partially. You are getting a lot for your money. So, yes, it is expensive, but there is a lot there. Here is my issue, I don’t care. If I buy a PS3, it is almost exclusively for the PS3 games. I haven’t been online with a console since the Dreamcast, and I may not this generation either. I may buy a Blue-Ray movie, but it took me forever to get a DVD player, so I’m in no rush for the next step up.

So, even though it’s a lot there, for me it’s going to buy a microwave for $50, but having to pay $500 for it because it comes with a fridge and a stove. Sure, it’s a good deal overall, but I only want one part of it. Same thing here, I’d rather pay $300-$400, give me a harddrive and the game machine, and leave the other stuff behind (heck, having a working PS2, the backward compatibility is nice, but it isn’t a selling point to me, or something that I want to pay for.

So, though some people are right that iit isn’t a bad deal, it’s only a good deal if you want everything that’s being offered, and your willing to pay for them.