I'm planning on buying a PS3 in about 1 1/2 - 2 years from now. I don't recommend on buying a PS3 at the moment there's no real good games out for it to justify buying the entire system. If you take a look all the 9.0 games on PS3 (minus Ninja Gaiden Sigma, which of course was on XBOX anyway) are all games that you can get on XBOX 360. So if you have a 360 already don't waste $400 man. The PS3 is an amazing console, but the games for it at the moment are crap. And not all, but theres not nearly enough to justify spending half a grand on it. That's why I'm waiting till it matures. Much like the PS2 being Sony's bloom right now with over 3,000 games (check Gamespot all games list for PS2) meanwhile PS3 barely holds a couple hundred I believe. So wait till developers learn how to make games for the PS3 properly, (cuz right noweveryone's hellbent on trying to make games look good, but not be actual good games i.e Lair)to utilize the Cell processor's full power, and then get it in it's prime!

I think the answer is pretty simple here. There really isn't that many PSP games out there that deserve 9+. the Gamespot reviewers are critical, which is fine, as long as they explain why this or that game deserve the grade they give. which they do brilliantly. Also Gamespot and IGN have comepletly different standars. a 8.0 on Gamespot might be a 9.5 on IGN. they can't be compared that wayDuck_Zero

The numbers are skewed to each other. An 8.0 on GS isn't a 9.5 on IGN. That's just the scored they got on each site. I've seen lower scores on IGN than that of GS's. It's not a mark up. It's just two different people, reviewing a game in two different ways. Which is usually why it's best to look at the overall critic scores for games. I just think GS sometimes looks at the wrong things. Brilliant games like Hitman (the very first one) got a 5.6!! a 5.6! It was the most original and revolutionary game to date in 2000 and it got a sh*t score on GS. It's because it had bugs and some controls were funky and even in the review it's all they kept talking about is the controls and bugs, meanwhile completely ignoring the originality and wide open concept of the game. I have never played a game like that till then and the series still remains as my top favorite of any game out there. They are critical in he wrong spots. Games like Crysis get a 9.5! Wtf? Because it's got great graphics? They say things like it revolutionized the FPS genre, HOW?? It's Farcry 2 basically it has not achieved anything new. Everything it had in it was all seen before it was your typical FPS game just with nicer graphics, nothing was revolutionary in it at all.It's a graphics test, not a game. Because once you get over the graphics and actually play the game, it's not that fun. Cloak, shoot koreans, cloak again escape. It's so easy even on the hardest setting. I just think this makes Gamespot so biased towards what they review.

What do you get for thoose 3$ a month?
FreshNoodles

Sh*t in a doggy bag really. lol

Just higher quality video streaming, access to some parts of the site others dont have and some other little extra. More or less crap. I'm gonna cancel it lol.

[QUOTE="HunidRacks"]8-8.5 is a good score yes. But some of these games deserve a much higher rating. Syphon filter: LS is like the top quality PSP game, it's as high production value as a PSP game can get at the moment and it deserves a 9+. MGS:PO got a 9.0 but I think that game is kind of crap. The hiring concept is nice, but I don't like the level design, the levels are small and incredibly simple and have no detail at all. And I don't like the new camera. The old MGS camera was better, I don't like this 3rd person follow camera it doesnt work well with MGS. Either way the scoring is screwed on GS for PSP.darthlgp

I agree. There were parts of Logan's Shadow where I swear it looks and plays just as well as a PS2 or Xbox game. It is that crisp. I tend to read any and all reviews I can find. It is good to look at gamespot.com, ign.com, gametrailers.com and possibly a multiplatform magazine like Game Informer.

Ah that is what www.metacritic.com is for my friend. All the online reviews for games bunched into 1 averaged score! Great site!

Btw the PSP is a PS2. It even has a faster processor clock than the PS2, PS2 has a 266mhz processor and PSP has a 333mhz. So you can literally port a PS2 game into the PSP and it will run fine. (as long as it ran fine on the PS2) Except you will have to dull down the textures a bit to fit a 4GB game into a 1.8GB UMD disc.

I really don't anymore lol. I see everyone likes Monster Hunter Freedom 2, it got a 5.0 on Gamespot but a 9.0 user rating out of 1,500 votes?? WTF? Someone's definately delusional here and I don't think it's 1,500 people. I go to metacritic.com usually for PSP game ratings. If you don't know it's a rating website for games, movies, books etc. that collects all the editor reviews from the web and magazines and bunches them together. Like I saw Jeanne D'Arc on it, Gamespot score of 8.0 and metacritic score based on 42 editor reviews from the web is an average of 88/100. (8.8 then) Infact it seems like the majority of PSP games on metacritic have a substantially higher score than that of what Gamespot gives them.