Your basically looking at it from a MS PR spin point of view. If you really dont like a new features every few weeks then just wiat till next gen when PS4 comes out and PS3 is $49. By then they wont be updating it. You must be on Windows 98 unless your a hypocrite since XP and vista still get updates. PSP and PS3 will get updates probably for the next few years. Just like the upcoming spring update. The difference is MS does the same thing on 360 that they started on PC. wait and do big updates at once so people don’t complain about how often they are getting patched.

I’m not telling your to buy a PS3 now or ever really. I don’t care if you don’t. I think you wont even if every month it gets a new AAA game. it will be the same thing most people say about PSP. Every new AAA titles that PSP gets everyone says ‘now a game I want, might be the time to get one’ But then end the arguement with I’m not buying a $200 handheld for one game. Doesn’t matter that it’s the 10th time they said that. Taken item buy item and discounting each one instead of taking it as a whole.

Pinning hopes on MGS4, Lair, or FF isn’t the way to buy into something I played a ton of games that were under the radar last gen. I personally hated MGS3. I don’t care for flight games and FFXII was just ok to me.

I understand you not wanting to rebuy your collection. That’s why I stopped buying DVD’s in general. I can’t stand low quality so it’s BD or nothing. Although we have 20 HD channels and a few dozen on demand options (wish ABC would get a HD offering here) . I like having a physical copy of a higher quality version then cable can currently offer.

And no I don’t think the next Playstation is going to follow in MS’s footsteps. I doubt Nintendo will either. If 3 more years on 360 is fine buy you then great. I value my investment more then that. That’s part of the reason Sega lost consumer trust. But today’s audience has selective memory.

Sporty if you think Sony isn’t going to try to release a console with the next Xbox you are CRAZY! 2010 is fine in my book. By that time the 360/PS3 will be just about maxed out and a new system will liven things up. Even when the new systems are announched none of them will be abandoned like last time. If you don’t believe me go to college for Economics and you will understand why.

Also Blu-Ray is a nice feature of the PS3. I NEVER use a console to play movies. I strongly beieve in stand-alone equipment because it is designed to do one thing well. This is probally why my original PS2 still plays like a dream all these years later. Using a console for double duty will shorten its life-span. There are so few movies on Blu-Ray that warrant a purchase right now that I don’t already own on DVD. And no I am not rebuying my entire DVD collection. At current Blu-Ray prices that would cost me near $10,000. Cable is doing a decent enough job with On-Demand HD that I don’t need to spend $700 on a Blu-Ray player just yet.

The PS3 is not finished. How many updates have their been now since launch? Dozens? 360 has had some updates but only 3 of them. The only thing that 360 gamers could really complain about was background downloading and that came pretty quick after launch. The other updates have been done to add more features that we were never promised. They are also things the competition is not doing.

I have every right to complain about the PS3. Like I said above I have most likely spent more on the Playstation line than anyone in this forum. I had high expectations from them to release a console that had a great online experience that competed with Live. I heard about all of this “super technology” that would blow away the competition. Their games do not match the 360. “But the 360 had a year head start”. Guess what. The PS2 has a year head start on the Xbox. Halo (launch title) destroyed almost everything that ever came out on PS2 in its entire lifespan. The graphics and A.I. were leaps and bounds above 98% of ALL PS2 games. If the PS3 is “that much more powerful” than the 360 we should have games available now that are better than Gears of War right?

As I have said a thousand times. I am hard on the PS3 because it is not what I was told it would be. The games to date are OK at best (“MotorStorm, no split-screen? WTF!). Resistance is an IP I have high hopes for but the first game plays a lot like other games I have played. Not a horrible thing but it does say the PS3 is worth my money. Other games like Lair (May 7th), Metal Gear Solid (late 2007, maybe), Final Fantasy (No way in Hell it comes out on December 1) have my interest. If Lair doesn’t review well (controls will be huge) than I have no reason to even think of a PS3 purchase until Holiday 2007 IF MGS4 or FF come out this year. Sell me on why I need a PS3 right this instance. Sony can’t but maybe you can. I am no fanboy. I am just pissed off that one year after its release the PS3 might have 4 games that are considered “good” exclusives with one or two of those being must own titles. The 360 in that same time frame will have 4-5 must own titles and a few other good-great games.

I will buy a PS3. But if I can save a few hundred dollars by waiting a year or so (system cheaper and the games out now and in the near future will be in the bargain bin).

I look forward to answers.

You right that you need a HDTV to really get into this cycle. But for those that have have surround and HDTV PS3 is a better investment. Not to mention we’re not as poor to complain. Blu-Ray is a major advantage that lessens the blow to the price. without HDTV your taste are lower that you don’t realize that DVD are grainy low res crap. If your into lower quality then you shouldn’t be looking at a PS3 in the first place.

The not finished console remark is just plan fanboyish and ignorant. If your really love buying into spin you need to get your ass off loving 360 since they are still updating it. Stop using computers in general and stick with the DS.

You obviously are a 360 fan. You shout their praises constantly. Also sugar coating your PS3 complaints as “I can’t wait till they get their act together” crap. If 360 gets you so excited go play it. It does have a lot of great games and some excellent exclusives. But to discount Sony at every turn your not ever going to give them a chance. You just discounting each plus and regurgitating the negatives regardless of if they are true or not till you run this cycle out.

PC most of your comments, like usual, are childish and mis-informed. People bitched about HDMI for 360 and Microsoft is catering to them. Does this mean I have to upgrade? NO. Right now the 360 is the more powerful system and in reality you are talking about so small a difference in power you can’t tell.

In a year or so when these great titles are coming out I will pick up a finished PS3. I will also not pay $500 for a machine that has no games worth $60. I still own one of my PS2s and gave the other away about a year ago. I also have spent more on games with my PSOne and PS2 than probally everyone in this forum. I bought over 100 games for both systems with most of them being bought at full price. Don’t dare call me an Xbox Fanboy when I want to buy a system but have no reason to. With the money Sony has gotten from me through the years I have every right to complain about the PS3.

The next generation of gaming starts when you have:

1) An HDTV – YOU own
2) Dolby Digital Surround Sound
3) Broadband Internet

Sporty: The 360 is just as powerfull as PS3. Which means the 360 will last longer (one year more in the market) than the PS3. Microsoft abandoned the Xbox because it STILL lost them money and needed to ensure a solid foothold before the PS3 launched. They are now selling their first consoles for a PROFIT and will continue to do so until the end of the cycle.

PS3s aren’t selling well in Japan either.

So they wont dominate like they did last gen this time. Also most seem to factor in that 360 has 3 years left in it’s life while PS3 has 5 before the next cycle. So 360 could be on top the way Genesis was and Sony catch up in the end like SNES did while MS is moving onto their next console.