The 360 was released in november 2005, the PS3 comes out in march as an inferior over priced machine compared to its US and *** versions. I aint too bothered about backward comp issues but SONY can kiss my backside and wait like I have. Its been 16 months behind Microsoft when its released so the can wait 16 months for my cash when the machines cheaper. The game line up aint too great anyway right now and most of the football games have been bought up by Microsft and since nearly all europeans like footie games thats a motive for some gamers again not to buy the PS3. another issue is breaking. I had a PS on release day and it broke so I got a new 1, then another and a fourth. I got a PS2 and had to get to more, will the PS3 be as bad? I know many had to be returned in the US and ***. I have had to return my 360 once to get it fixed and it was back to me in under 20 hours as they had paid for the courier etc so thats great service. Sony products overall tho is awful, 7 combined PS1/2 machines because of poor qaulity. I take good care of my machines and they still work like my dreamcast, saturn, megadrive, master system, nintendo, snes, gamecube, xbox, gamegear, gameboy advance, gameboy DS, commadore 64, acorn electron and hell even my 1982 Vetrex is perfect so I can't be accused of not looking after my stuff. Sony had better drop the prices fast to gain favour as only biassed "SONY is god, hail SONY" fans will buy it, I am not biast as you can see I buy all machines. Oh and Jack_Saab89 next time you type something try to make it appear on the screen for others to read a bit more easier as it all looks like "SONY marry me" crap