Just curious

[prog]

Are any of you planning on purchasing (or have already purchased?!) a PS3?

If so, why?

Even though "everyone" I know has a PS2, it looks like its successor is gearing up to be the next XBox - something for the vast blob of Madden/Halo dorks that aren't part of my tribe, and that's basically it.

Comments

[gemini6ice.livejournal.com]

Ha, the most recent system I own is a PSX, and that's back in Texas. I won an Xbox 360 from Mountain Dew / Pepsi, but I sold it. I was worried about being scammed (maybe by counterfeit bills?), so I made the guy pay paypal.

With regards to punctuation, I'm a big fan of "‽"

[prog.livejournal.com]

I put scare-quotes around "everyone" coz even half the game-players I know aren't into video games. Those that are, though, all seem to own PS2s, even if it's only for Guitar Hero or whatever.

I first read about smileys in the letter column of Discover Magazine, where the writer was responding to an article on the history of the interrobang. This would have been around 1990.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Between the price and a general post-rootkit antipathy towards Sony, it would take a pretty impressive game to get me to buy it. We got the PS2 for DDR and Prince of Persia, and if I buy another console it will be because I want to play a particular game.

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

Nope, no Xbox or PS for me. I'm a Nintendo boy through and through.

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

I WISH I'd bought one. A spare $5000 would really come in handy.

[shibusashirazu.livejournal.com]

There's a part of me for whom a PS3 looks attractive as a "media" unit to play with, especially with the Blu-Ray and SACD support. Although I haven't really heard how well it plays either compared to dedicated components. But with the high price of Blu-Ray machines and the relative rarity of SACD-compatible cd players it isn't a bad price to get both and also play games on the side.

Even in that case it would be more a novelty as very little SACD media is even being produced and I don't see myself buying a lot of Blu-Ray movies. Then again I actually tried the CD+G features on the Sega CD unit for a Sega Genesis.

As a pure gaming system, probably not -- although in my dorkiness I'll say about the only console game I play is the FIFA series. But who knows -- by the time PS3s are readily available, a winner may already be declared in the HD DVD format war and Blu-ray may very well lose making that feature moot.

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

part of the glory of PS2 is that you could still play your favorite PS1 games and enjoy the Karaoke Revolution. not so PS3 as many games from the 2 are not compatible.

general consensus amongst the youngsters i know (actually there are quite a few) is that the Nintendo Wii is where it's at.

[jtroutman.livejournal.com]

I have a PS2. I am unlikley to get the PS3, because I have not even scratched the surface of available games for me to play on the PS2.

I am more likely to buy an Xbox 360 than PS3, as that would open up more available games.

If there was some really really super-killer game just for the PS3, I might think about it.

if I actually had time to play anything.

[ahkond.livejournal.com]

I have never owned a video game system. So, no.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I'll probably pick one up in 20 years when it's $19.98 at the Kay-Bee Toys in the mall.

PS9

[lorelei-sakai.livejournal.com]

It looks like I'm going to be getting a PS3. I don't have any particular reason for it, though. Normally I'd wait until I knew it had a game I really wanted to play. In this case, though, I can only think of one reason, and it isn't good reason, or even particularly rational.

What I really, really, want is a PS9. Do you remember the ads for those? A full immersion gaming platform, like a holodeck for your living room, except instead of a whole room, it came in the form of something like eyedrops. Completely brilliant. I wanted one instantly.
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I figure the only way I'm getting one is to support Sony until they get around to developing it. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

I don't plan on getting a PS3; I bought a Wii instead, and it's nice.

Those who love Sony are gonna love the blu-ray feature though.