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 "‽"

[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.