Give me your honest opinion

yea ofcourse, i mean yes we all love price drops, but the things that ps3 offers in one system is a bargin, do u know blue-ray players go to 2000 to 3000 a pop!? and u get free internet, 60gb, blue ray, wireless controller, backward compatiblity, etc. etc. , so yea IMO i think its worth it, i havent looked back or even thought about the price.

I don't care for the pricedrop, but i'm waiting for games like Littlebigworld and Home.

are you all buying the ps3 for a cheap blu ray player alternative or mainly for gaming?

Do you see the PS3 being worth the money right now?jackie_chan13

no, would wait till around christmas to buy it.

Thank you, you two. Now tell me why you think it is.jackie_chan13

ya,u are absolutelu right

Do I think the PS3 is worth 600 dollars hrmmm... put it this way.  You have the 360, lets say you buy the premium for 399.99 and then spend 199.99 on the HD-DVD player and then another 99.99 on the wireless card.  Thats roughly $700... and yet I can get the PS3 with HDMI (premium 360 doesn't support this) and more processing power for cheaper. $600 may seem steep, however, you get a lot of features for that price.Handin

Do you see the PS3 being worth the money right now?jackie_chan13

As a gaming console: No. But if you're the type that doesn't mind waiting for a console to develop a good library then that's no problem. It's going to be amazing in a few months.

 As a Blu-ray player: Of course. 

 As a long term investment: Just look at what other systems offer compared to the PS3. Nuff Said.    

yes

I don't care for the pricedrop, but i'm waiting for games like Littlebigworld and Home.

jackie_chan13

well there won't be a price drop before those two come out so you might as well buy it now and enjoy it

yes

as a gaming console and a cheap Blu-ray as well

the games are not great right now but the future holds plenty of promise

There are factors that only you can decide.  I personally bought one as I had/have some good cash flow and it wasn't too much money to me.  Right now I would say it has cost me about $7 an hour for entertainment ($700 + $200 in games and movie rentals divided by about 130 hours)... and that's only in about 4 months.  That's cheap in my world, but could be expensive in others.  And of course it will be much cheaper when the amount of time I've spent on it rises to the thousands of hours mark.

The other factor is do you have a good HD TV, and how much do you care about blu-ray?  To be honest, I didn't even know what blu-ray was when I bought my PS3, and didn't even know that the PS3 had it.  I just heard the hardware is supposed to be the best for the games, I was familiar with PS2, and pulled the trigger.  But now that I have been introduced to blu-ray... I am pretty much a blu-ray snob now (I do own a 1080p tv).

From a pure gaming standpoint, I can honestly say that it probably isn't worth it right now.  However, I don't forsee a price drop coming too soon... and there are plenty of highly anticipated games on the way.  I would say that by the holiday season, it will most definitely be worth it, and if you get one now... the three consensus best games out (RFOM, Motorstorm, and Oblivion) should keep you busy enough until more titles come out in the summer.

Do you see the PS3 being worth the money right now?jackie_chan13

I honestly think that the systems is not worth it at the time. Sure you have all of the bells and ribbons, but the price is ridiculous. 

People say "Not a lot of games for PS3". I say "well how much $ do you have" the games are $60 each. 2 games $120 + tax!casey7672

When people say there aren't a lot of games out for the PS3 they're not referring to quantity so much as a good number of quality games.      

[QUOTE="jackie_chan13"]Do you see the PS3 being worth the money right now?CyanX73

As a gaming console: No. But if you're the type that doesn't mind waiting for a console to develop a good library then that's no problem. It's going to be amazing in a few months.

 As a Blu-ray player: Of course. 

 As a long term investment: Just look at what other systems offer compared to the PS3. Nuff Said.    

I agree with this guy.

Yup so far its been worth it.   I own a 360, PS3 and Wii.  PS3 is the best actual hardware (quieter and more reliable than 360, much better graphics than Wii).  XMB interface is very easy to get around. 

While I would have to say 360s online service is the best so far, the Playstation Network is still very good.  Online multiplayer is lag free and the PSN store is starting to consistently get new content in every week (trailers, demos, downloadable games).  Both services are FAR better than the Wii's meager online services (Virtual console is only thing going for it now, NO ONLINE MULTIPLAYER?).  

Games so far are pretty good too, notables:  Resistance, Motorstorm, Oblivion, Virtua Figher and the EA/2k sports games.   Anyone who complains about the PS3 game lineup forgets about the first six months of the 360 last year (only good game was Call of Duty 2 until Oblivion came out).   While I bought the system for the line up of games out (and coming out), Blu Ray was a positive factor in my decision to buy a PS3.  I have an HDTV and I'd actually would like to watch HD content (gasp!) as well as play HD games.  Believe it or not, I actually want to buy Blu Ray movies in addition to my games. 

Unlike the 360 I can actually play most of my past generation games. (2-300 Xbox games playable vs. how many thousands of PS1 and PS2 games?)  The Wii has great Backward compatibility and Virtual Console is great too.

Also of all three systems, there are more exclusives coming out for the PS3 that I am interested in (may be different for you), but here are all of the notable system exclusives:

PS3:

Lair, Heavenly Sword, Ratchet and Clank, Killzone 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, Final Fantasy 13 and Versus, God of War 3, Wipeout for PS3, Uncharted (Naughty Dog game), White Knight Story (from developers of Dragon Quest 8 and Rogue Galaxy), Gran Turismo, New Kingdom Hearts-esque series from Square, Dragon Age? RPG from Bioware

PS3 and 360 games:

Grand Theft Auto 4, Guitar Hero 3, Rock Band, Devil May Cry 4, Dead Rising 2, Resident Evil 5, Assassins Creed, Brothers in Arms, Ace Combat, Metal of Honor, Unreal Tournament, Dirt, Burnout 5 and many more

360 exclusives:

Halo 3, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Fable 2, Forza motorsports, PGR 3, Gears of War sequel, Halo Wars 

Wii exclusives:

Mario Galaxy, Super smash bros, mario party, metroid, umbrella chronicles