[Evildave]

As for the arguments about the XBOX 360 and PS3 being 'outdated', they work fine.

Sure, you can get 'better' graphics on some PC game or other... assuming you can get it to install and run without paying as much as a new console costs (or more) to upgrade your PC to run it. If you plugged that PC into a TV set, you'd have to dial the resolution down to display it on that TV set, anyway.

Console games evolve differently than PC games. Rather than the developer just expecting infinite expensive upgrades from the users, the developer spends a little extra time making the game FIT, and getting more out of the hardware that they have.

Seems to me $300 is awfully cheap price for a new 6-core SMP Linux workstation that you can also play the newest generation of PS3 games and Blue-ray on. Not a lot of RAM, but it's not like that 512MB will be wasted like a Windoze OS would squander it. Probably why they use them for other clustered projects, like cracking the MD5 algorithm with 200 PS3s networked together.

[filipinowise]

I agree with you 100%. PS3 in my opinion is the best my far. Because you are buying a computer as well.(oh you can play PC games on PS3 too) The wii is cool for social gatherings and family fun, The xbox is just a naked PS3 in my opinion with out cool options the the ps3 has. Xobox 360 has way more titles that ps3 thats the only benefit it has over PS3. My brother is has a xbox 360, he is just jealous of my PS3 after i should him what i can do with my PS3. Far as PC gaming i admit it the best over all, I not paying $539 bucks for a video card alone. And for each game i played on PC i had to program the dang controller with a profile I don't have all the time to program a controller. PC gaming to just to expensive and time consuming. Im very satisfied with PS3 99.9%. I will be satisfied with it 100% when the console starting hovering just like in the commercial.

[dawgbone]

Pokester, I'm trying to figure out what you are talking about.

What cables do you need to buy that cost you $40-70? The only cable I bought for my PS3 was an HDMI cable that cost me < $20. I lost the USB cord for my controller and grabbed a generic spare one for $3.99 at circuit city. Maybe you aren't bright enough to search for 3rd party items, but that doesn't mean they don't exsist.

What content can you play on your PS3 over your network? I have my PC set up to share media with my PS3 and I can play any content I choose... including movies I've ripped from my DVD collection. I can also watch streaming TV (youtube, atdhe, justin.tv, hulu, etc...) over the web through my PS3, either by using the browser or setting up the URL in Tversity and playing it through the PS3's media server.

Do yourself a favour and spend a few minutes to look up valid information instead of your local XBox fanboy site.

[Pokester]

Sony tends to make every cable they can proprietary... and thus, lock competitors out of making cheap cables for Sony devices.

Sure they use USB2 and HDMI on the PS3 -- but those are the exception, not the rule.

Go look @ other sony products and you'll see Sony charges $50-80 for a wall brick other mfr's sell for $10... Sony puts $10 worth of NiMH batts in a plastic sleeve so they can gouge ya $50 .... While everyone else uses affordable SD & SDHC, Sony still uses the memory stick and charges 2-3x going rate for SD.

Sony never misses an opportunity to gouge its customers...

[MarioJP]

kind of reminds you of apple doesn't it.

[lpjazzman220]

the only problem with chopping off the blu-ray and only having dvd is that developers wouldnt be able to fit as much onto the game disc. and as we all know this means that the games wont be as complex, wont look as good, wont sound as good, wont have the content, and will resemble the xbox360 exclusive crap or even worse the wii exclusive crap. now i am not a ps3 fanboy, im a pc guy, but i believe that if you sell a console for 200-300 usd and then charge your consumers and extra 200usd for a failing format drive, then you are just stupid (calling out to ms here). plus, for an extra 100usd, you can have actual hd content on your tv w/o having to spend another 500usd on a decent blu-ray player. plus the games and graphics are better on ps3 when you look at exclusives. yeah i know its true that look worse on multi-platform, but thats cause publishers rush the developers and make them release crap. so yeah, i would buy a ps3 for 300usd. i would buy a decent blu-ray player for 300usd. i wouldnt buy a 360 for 200usd nor would i buy a wii for 250usd.