[quote name='CHOW CHOW']Honestly, you guys should skip this. I'm a former Sony fanboy that got a PS3 on launch day this past November and was left unimpressed and disappointed. I sold it and bought a 360 and have put more hours into my 360 over the last two weeks than I did in like 6+ months owning the PS3. I'm serious. Everything about the 360, save for the reliability of the hardware, is superior. Better games, better interface, better OS, better multi-platform titles, more games, 10x better online service, the community aspect is so awesome as well. If you already have a 360, I'd just skip the PS3 for now.. maybe until sometime in 2008 or 2009. Literally 90% of the games line-up for the two are identical, so you'd be paying $500+ just to play a few decent PS3 exclusives (since the multi-platform games are all better on 360). If you're that hardcore into gaming where you have to play every good exclusive, no matter the console, then nevermind. But if not, do yourself a favor and save that $500 for something else more worthwhile.[/quote]
I have a 360 and I do admit it was fun for about 5 months. I was mainly addicted to Gears and also getting achievements. Then after a while I got bored with it and pissed (constant freezing, ring of death once and disk read errors) where eventually it got one red light and forced me to send it back for repairs. After reading the xbox forums, a lot of people are saying that its gonna take about 5 weeks to get your console back (which pissed me off more...I haven't even sent it back cause of damn UPS).
Don't get me wrong, the 360 is a GREAT console but it's constant hardware problems and such has made me rethink my purchase (at first, I was going to get the Wii, but it was hard and so I decided to get the 360 because of a $100 rebate offer).
I agree with you that $500 is STILL too pricy for me considering the game library is crap but 5 free blue ray movies should help lower the cost if you sell em and I'm selling my PS2 to my cousin for about another $100 so it should help me a lot. Only reason I want a PS3 is because of FF, SOCOM and....yeah thats it lol
Oh and btw, anyone else see a PS2 price cut after this?