The Playstation 3 is a bad system to own.

1. Sony isn't dying anytime soon. Also, if Blu-ray fails, they will still have their PS3 on which to play them. Whether or not Blu-ray succeeds as the next DVD, it will succeed no matter what as the PS3 game storage media, since there's no competition in that market. PS3 games don't care at all whether or not the Blu-ray succeeds, and if someone buys Blu-ray movies, they can still play them on their PS3, so that doesn't matter either. Also, AFAIK, Sony doesn't make many games, they're more about hardware. 2. Source is Wikipedia, or rather whatever the Wikipedia source was for that. Also, they were 499 and 599 to start with, correct? According to Wikipedia at least. 399 is the cheaper one, so it's a 100 dollar drop. Not that production costs matter, since I don't have to pay to produce it, only to buy. And once again, SNE is not going out of business anytime soon. 3. The PS3 has the best console graphics available. This is surely at least tips the scales toward it being a good system, at least for those of us who care about graphics. 4. Why does it matter if the games are exclusives? _You're_ the one relying on people owning both systems. Out of ALL games that are onthe PS3, there are MANY great games. It doesn't matter if they're exclusive or not, since that presupposes that we have another console. Perhaps I shouldn't have said what I did about people who have both systems. however, even for these people the PS3 is worth it for the PS2 and PS1 support, the PS3 exclusives, and Blu-ray video player. 5. If you're not arguing it, we're on the same ground. There only has to be more advantage than disadvantage in having a PS3 for it to be good. It doesn't have to be best or better than X or Y. 6. You don't own a PS3, so how would you know how good its exclusives are? Have you played them all? I agree that the normal great PS exclusive series don't have any games for it yet, but the ones out now are good. It would be plenty of fun to own a PS3, especially for those who would also use Blu-ray to get a better video experience. 7. 8. I admitted that they were still expensive, but that they will eventually get cheap enough that there will be a switch. Also, many people are already switching. It will likely be some time before DVD is phased out, just like it took a long time for VHS. 9. 10. Perhaps the price of Blu-ray players is still too high. Perhaps the purchase of a PS3 solely for its use as a Blu-ray player would be a bad decision. But the great thing about the PS3 is that it makes Blu-ray WORTH getting into now. True, HD-DVD players are less expensive than Blu-ray drives, but a PS3 costs less than a 360 and an HD-DVD drive, plus you get multiplayer for free, better graphics, and it's only one piece of hardware taking up entertainment system real estate. Blu-ray also has more companies supporting it. http://www.engadget.com... Read through at least the part with the tables. While Blu-ray might cost more, it has higher capacity and much higher possible capacity (200GB vs. 60 for the HD DVD). Overall, it's probably still too early to call one the victor though. Also, they have been steadily going down in price. As I said, $100 of the PS3 cost cut was the ability to make Blu-ray diodes cheaper. Any new format is expensive when it first comes out. 11. Yes, you can have a good game on 360. I wasn't saying that you couldn't. But unlike the 360, the PS3 will likely not be bounded by disc size for its entire life. The PS3 is able to have huge games on it. Therefore, as the owner of a PS3, you know developers won't be sacrificing content in the games just to fit it. 12. If someone was giving away PS3's for free, it wouldn't make the 360 a bad system. I was trying to show that it doesn't need to be a better deal than X to be a good deal. For many people, the PS3 is a good deal, for some others it's even the best deal out there (videophiles). 13. I did not say the PS3's backwards-compatibility was bad, nor is it. Its backwards compatibility is at least as good as the 360's. It's not perfect, but they've worked out all the kinks in MOST games. Almost all of the good games, anyway. The ability to play PS2 games and PS1 games is therefore stilla boost to the worth of a PS3. Games: http://ps3.gamezone.com... Look! Things with high ratings! It doesn't matter whether they're exclusive or not, since we're not assuming that a person owns an alternate system. Also, you say that you don't like the genres of game PS3 tends to have. However, we're not debating whether YOU should buy it, but whether it's good IN GENERAL. RPG's and Shooters are two of my favorite genres, and there are plenty of people who like both. Blu-ray: Neither format will succeed DVD's if no one supports it. The PS3 is one of the biggest reasons Blu-ray currently has more supporters than HD-DVD's. Also, I said that UMD's _DID_ accomplish their goal. They were not meant as DVD replacements, just as PSP storage. They were the future, and are the present, of handheld gaming, the only market they've been pushed in. And too bad that article crowning HD-DVD is so old. Over a year old. I realize that the article I posted earlier was also old, but it was the only one with both technical specs and comparitive tables I could find. For a more recent article: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com... Plain and simple, Blu-ray is winning. It has more players out there, it makes more sales, it is winning. Also, regular DVD content is not in HD. Online: I said shooters were not biggest content-wise, they're definitely the most-played though. They tend to be the best-selling games for all consoles. Also, yahoo answers is not generally a great source to use. Any online non-exclusives are still online for PS3, and almost all games that should be online are. All I asked for was a game that should be online but wasn't. You gave none, only some yahoo answers quote and that "a lot of games are troubling to play online." You said this with no source, so I have no means of rebuttal, besides an equal and opposite assertion: "Games are just as easy to play online on PS3 as on 360." Price: Yes, it costs more than the 360. It can also do many things the 360 can't, such as play Blu-ray and PS2/PS1 games. The ability to play PS2 and PS1 games is far better than the ability to play XBOX games - many of the great XBOX games have been released on PC with more features. To name a few, Halo, Halo 2, and Fable. The ability to play PS2 games is worth quite a bit: people are _still_ buying PS2's at the retail price of $129! Many people out there would be more than willing to buy a next-generation DVD player for $100, and with the PS3, this is free. Next-generation consoles are worth far more than they are sold for, and the PS3 is no exception. In fact, you note the huge discount yourself. The price is far less than it should be, and a PS3 is well-worth what it costs the consumer. Also, the network system of PS3 is rivaled only by the XBOX, and it comes free with the system! To sum it all up, the PS3 is a great piece of technology. All in one, it has the ability to play high-definition movies, high-definition games, and old classics that many of us have not yet grown tired of. It also comes with the ability to play games with others across the globe. Also, it virtually comes with a guarantee that storage space will never be an issue for your games. Not to mention that its graphics are rivaled only by expensive computer systems priced in the thousands. The PS3 is far from a bad system - it is a _great_ piece of technology being offered to us at a _great_ price.