Wednesday, June 20, 2007

My opinion the PS3 in it's current state

No...

Here is my opinion the PS3 is a first adopter piece of consumer electronics plain and simple. Until they drop the price on it, it is a waste of money as far as I have seen.


If they get the price down to (I know this is not going to happen) $400. Especially with albeit a RUMORED price drop for the 360 expected I might consider it, but even if they drop it a by $100 it's still not comparable to what I feel I would get out of a 360. There are all of 2-3 exclusive games for PS3 that I have become more interested in them but not the console. I haven’t seen anything for the console that makes it a good buy. There is only one game that I would be interested in playing so far that can only be played only on PS3 that anyone has given good recommendations It's Resistance.

However, none of the "features" does anything for me

Built in Wi-Fi Whoop de do I prefer a wired connection especially when it main use is gaming. I'm not too impressed with Wi-Fi it's self. Folding at home My DSL bogs down just trying to watch You Tube. I'm not clogging it with something I don’t care about paying $20 a month to do nothing. I know that may sound bad, but I’ve had some things happen around family members lately and a while ago that I really have little faith in medical research. I may change my mind down the road but suffice it to say no on Folding.

The controllers charge wire length bothers me I am a binge gamer. Yes, I could buy extensions or longer cables, but why should I especially considering the current price? Waggle controls the same opinion I have of the Wii it's gimmicky and not a selling point especially if they are crap in most games.

Blu-Ray, Up scaling, and games in 1080i or p don't excite me because it will be a long time before I can drop the money on a good HDTV.

Back Compat I just don’t care about I still play Parasite Eve on my PlayStation and when I get a 360 I will still be using my regular Xbox when I want to play something one reason is save games and the other is (under normal circumstances) all my systems are still hooked up Atari 2600 – Xbox. The only things I play in emulation on my modded Xbox are the games I have that don’t work or can find to buy at a reasonable price like FF3 on SNES.

Download stuff to a PSP. Umm that would up my price to $770 just for the consoles and NOT worth it for something I don’t think is worth the cost even after a price drop. Just to be fair I think the DS costs too much at a $130. A Hondo is the perfect price point on a handheld console IMO.

I really feel Sony decided to jump the gun and lump a bunch of non-standardized, new and untested tech into the PS3. They charge a premium for it, then go out and state their system as the king of all systems. When it didn't fair as well as they were hoping, because some of us are smart enough consumers to sit back and look at the big picture of the PS3, and say wait I'm not spending that kind of money on a system that frankly isn't worth the extra expense for what it offers in the short term. I'll wait until they can back up the claims and do what they say they can. You know by the time they have a game out on the system that will use the systems abilities to their full potential it will be time to go through all this BS again with the new consoles in four to five years. Yeah I know "but the PS2 and PS3 are ten year systems" if you think that will stop them from putting out a new one when MS and Nintendo are ready with theirs your stupid.

How many people that have a PS3 are still playing it? How many are still playing it often and what game(s) are you playing that you can’t get on Xbox 360? How many are still playing them often? How many have it hooked up to a HDTV?

My question is which you play more the 360 or the PS3?


Here is what I came up with for total current cost to get and use a PS3 to get the full experience

And a similar experience on 360

Best Buy is where I would purchase the system and extras. I went with trusted brands or Sony/Microsoft when available. *I had to go to Game Stop for a price as Best Buy dose not have a 360 wireless adapter listed online. Not including games, these are how the two stack up.

HDTV Samsung - SlimFit 30" Widescreen HDTV $600

Sub Total $600

PS3 Sony - PlayStation 3 60GB System $600

Extra controller Sony - SIXAXIS Wireless Controller for PlayStation 3 $50

USB Extension NYKO - HDMI Cable for PlayStation 3 $10

HDMI cable NYKO - HDMI Cable for PlayStation 3 $60

Remote Sony - Blu-ray Remote for PlayStation 3 $25

Headset Datel - Communicator Headset for PlayStation 3 $15

Wireless router Belkin - N1 Wireless-N Wireless Router $130
Sub Total
$ 890

Sub Sub Total $1490

PSP Sony - PSP $170

Battery charger Sony - PSP Battery Charger $35

SD memory card SanDisk - 2GB Memory Stick PRO Duo Gaming Memory Card - Blue $ 60

Sub Total $ 265

Sub Sub Total $ 1755

Now the 360

HDTV Samsung - SlimFit 30" Widescreen HDTV $600

Sub Total $600

360 Microsoft - Xbox 360 Elite Console - Black $480

Extra controller Microsoft - Xbox 360 Wireless Controller - Black $50

Play and charge kit Microsoft - Xbox 360 Play & Charge Kit - Black $23

HDMI cable comes wit console $0

Headset Included with console $0

Sub Total $ 553

Sub Sub Total $1153

Additional add-ons needed to make fully comparable to PS3

HD DVD Microsoft - HD DVD Player for Xbox 360 $200

Remote Microsoft - Xbox 360 Universal Media Remote $22

Xbox Live Gold $50

*Wireless Adapter Xbox 360 Wireless Network Adapter* $ 100

Wireless router Belkin - N1 Wireless-N Wireless Router $130

Sub Total $ 502

Sub Sub Total $1655

The reason I separated the wireless router from the 360, and not the PS3 is that the PS3 has built in Wi-Fi. So, you need a Wi-Fi router to use it if you don’t already have one and the newer the better.

There is not much difference in overall price of either system after adding everything. If you want everything, the systems offer in their top of the line models without the system-to-system interaction. You could drop the PSP from the totals then, and you would save $165 off the total of the ps3 over the cost of a 360.

Now if I were to buy one over the other I would have to go with the 360 premium at $400. I wouldn’t buy the HD DVD drive or the remote. I wouldn’t buy the wireless for it because I don’t like using Wi-Fi. So over the cost of the PS3 I would save $237 excluding the Wi-Fi router and the PSP from the PS3, as I wouldn’t buy them myself.

If Hi-Def movies are something you care about now then the PS3 looks like the overall better value for the totals in terms of money.

Now it comes straight down to the games for most of us. We all know the PS3 is going to have great third party support, but will it be enough exclusive stuff to make it a buy right now or even at a Hondo, less I think not.

After reading Duff's review on the Gamer Cast Network forum. of the system I am really not interested at this time no one has shown me any reason to be invested.