I actually just bought a PS3, although I only bought it to replace my PS2, which had broken. The value of the PS3 is, to me, currently housed almost entirely in future potential.
My observations so far:
Cons:
- I bought MGS4, but I'm not sure that I'm as "into it" as I'm supposed to be. C'est la vie. I'll beat it eventually, but right now I'm mostly playing my old PS2 titles again, which goes to show how gripping the PS3 lineup is for me at present. It's also worth mentioning that the only other currently released game that even interests me is Ratchet and Clank. So yeah, basically the library is lacking.
- I rented a few titles to confirm my earlier observations and so far I'm right. I can't find a single game that I own for the X360 that plays better on the PS3. Some are basically the same, some are noticeably worse, and most of the PS3 titles have install times, which should improve performance, and yet somehow doesn't.
- I don't like the controller, but then I never really have. Damn thing feels too light in my hand.
- What the hell is with the rounded top? I have limited space and wanted to lay it flat, but with how heavy it is, I didn't want to set it on top of my other crap. However, since the top is apparently designed to remind us of a car's hood, I can't stack devices on it and had to set up a special separate area to stand it up in.
Pros:
- I like the built-in wireless, although mine has a tendency to blink at times, that may be normal for everyone, PSN connection trouble, or just my unit, I'm not sure. Question to longer term PS3 owners: how stable is the PSN connection over wireless supposed to be?
- I enjoy the menu system. It's less cluttered than the 360's, and while I'm unconvinced that it's "better", I think they did just fine with it.
- The ability to sync up my bluetooth headset for my cellphone with the PS3 instead of having to go buy "their brand" was a nice touch.
- While I don't own any BluRay movies, I'm sure that at some point I will be glad to own a machine that can play them. I will say that the PS3 plays my current movies very well (possibly better than the 360, though it's tough to say for certain), although it seems to require that I turn the sound up really high for some reason.
Other:
- Where the hell is Home, LittleBigPlanet, and White Knight? Those were the things that made me most excited about a PS3, and now that I finally have one, I feel that Sony owes me these products at once.
- This is too circumstantial to be listed as a true "con", but in my circle, I know one (count them, one) guy who owns a PS3 but not an XBox, but I know dozens of guys who have 360's and may also own PS3's. What this means is that most of us buy our multiplayer games on XBox anyway, to get maximum multiplayer coverage. This saddens me.
But I guess this is supposed to be a thread about Sony, not their latest home console unit, and on that front I can say that in the computing market, Sony has made overpriced and underperforming products for years. In fact, you can stick "overpriced" on almost anything they do. Also, their customer service is nigh-legendary for how bad it is. Lucky for them, while their hardware is rarely top of the line, it usually doesn't have too high a failure rate either.
I don't care for Sony as a company at all, but if good games come out for their system, I'll buy.
- J
