In a word...BAD. We've had them at work for about 2 weeks & I'm not overly impressed. I know I'm a 360 fanboy at heart but deep down I'm a gamer first. I was on the original table tops back in the late 70's. Yes I know, I'm old 8) I try to take things on their own merits but I can't get excited about the PS3.

I looked at Resistance: Fall of man yesterday and the graphics look very PS2. There are so many jaggies that it's just sad. Draw distance is very poor. This is supposed to be the premium title for the launch. I played a few levels and unlike Gears Of War it is very linear. You must follow this path to proceed. This sort of programming went out in the 90's. One would hope that it gets better further in.

Virtua fighter 5 looks sweet colour wise. It's very vibrant but there seems to be a lot of dodgy voice over work. Even more so than DOA 4. Jaggies abound every where.

Motorstorm was good visually and played quite well with the 6 axis controller. Although the controller felt like a cheap piece of crap without the rumble feature. Said controller doesn't have a battery that you can replace. So when the recharge dies in about 12 months time it will cost $80 for a new controller as to $17.95 for an xbox360 battery. The 1 metre charge cable doesn't help much either (Duh!)

NFS: Carbon we all know already looks better on the 360. HDR lighting on PS3 is bad in comparison right now. Maybe developers will fix this in the next Gen. of games.

Fight Night 3 likewise. Better character models on PS3 but bad HDR lighting. Same gameplay.

I could go on about all of the games like this. I think xbox360 was a far stronger launch. Most of the launch titles on PS 3 have been out for 3 - 6 months on 360 and have been done better in my opinion.

The one thing I can't fathom, Sony have left online multiplayer up to the developers to implement. Online is not primary for Sony it seems. Virtua Fighter 5 with leader boards and no online is just plain stupid. Again this may change down the track.

Online account sign up was a bit of a mess. It took me so long to set up with the pre-emptive text keyboard. You can do letters individually but it takes too long. The first time I tried to set up it would not connect me to the servers and bounced me back to the start again. You guessed it, it didn't retain the information and I had to type it all over again. The sign up process is best described as painful.

The console interface is very slick. The same cross media bar as the PSP. Easy access to all of the functions as you expect. The friend adding function on the face of it didn't look quite right. I'm not 100 % sure but I think you will need to remember the gamers name to add them to your friends list. There is no suggestion that you will be able to add them from in game as with the 360. I maybe wrong about this as there was no one on the network I could add in game as yet??

Although this sounds very 360 fanboy, I was really finding it hard to find some positives to take from the launch. Yes, movies look good in BluRay and when games done right look very nice running through HDMI but there wasn't much else to excite me. The console won't look much better than most 360 consoles running on Standard Definition Plasma or CRT. I suppose if you can afford $1000 for your next gaming console then Bravia 'X' doesn't look that expensive to get the benefits the console has to offer. The one thing Sony did get right is the 60GB hard drive.

Right now I won't look at the PS 3. Everything that I want is coming to xbox360 & is being done better on that platform. Especially online game play. I hope for all gamers sake that Sony & it's developers lift it's game and push the envelope to make games better on all platforms.