Just curious

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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.

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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.