It all depends really. If you like all your entertainment on one piece of hardware then it is a good purchase. Luckily you bought yours when they are actual games already out and some more along the way. In the long run I am not too sure about. It could go either way. I don't care about sales either, but if it continues to do rather somewhat poorly, then 3rd parties might not even make games multiplat anymore and then the system will go in the gutter, Metal Gear Solid 4 and Final Fantasy 13 have already been talked about going that direction. Monster Hunter 3 moved to Wii and Devil May Cry 4 went multiplat as well. On the other hand if software sales are good, even thoughPS3 might be a small fanbase, people could still support it because their game sold on it.
Not to start system wars in here, but 3rd parties are complaining about games not selling on wii and there is talk about the 360 reaching the peak of it's potential. If Sony would start advertising some of their better games like Uncharted, Folklore, Warhawk, and Little Big Planet, also if they could get 3rd party games to run as well as 360 then it might stick around. If they could put more games on the store on a regular basis then they could shape themselves up. If they would show off the advantages beyond blue-ray beyond graphics then they could start picking up. Ps2 and PSP sell well, so they are still making money, so I don't think Sony will move out of hardware of gaming,
But if there are still all these delays with a small amount on the store, especially when Japan has got like a trillion old school games, and they keep putting out new sku's of systems, then it will never sell because It's too wishy washy for anyone to produce or buy anything for it.
Granted some of this is becasue the processor of PS3 is different than the ones inside a PC and 360 and that is why 3rd parties don't like it because they have to work harder to get a game to run due to the new architecture of the system and don't want to spend the money or time to put out something of quality. Some games only sell well during a holiday season like the EA sports games and when your trying to hurry up to get the game done in time for the annual round up, you can't make the game run well on a system you are confused about.
The worst case scenario I see is that the PS3 could end up like N64 where they have good to great first party games, but crappy or lack of third party games. If you like the first party things then you should still enjoy your PS3
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