Wait on getting one. This Black Friday will be EPIC for last gen. Buy 2 get 1 frees everywhere. Price cuts. Bundles. You waited 7 years, you can wait another 3-4 months. For what you would spend now, I bet you could get double in the fall. If you do spring for now, buy from craigslist.
Also get:
Deus Ex Human Revolution
XCom Enemy Within
Mass Effect Trilogy
Dishonored
Uncharted 2
Last of Us
GTA V
Infamous Collection
Ratchet and C;ank A Crack in Time
Valkyria Chronicles
If you wait, I bet you could find all of this with a ps3 for less than 300 dollars. Seriously, once you realize how cheap you can get games when waiting, you wonder why suckers drop $60 on a game. I don't think I have the capacity to spend more than $20 on any non Nintendo game without getting angry and ashamed.

Context. Wow.

Ranting about the old fat PS3 won't every help anybody. It's obvious not to buy it. Not to mention that his statement of waiting for a pricedrop implies that he'd like to buy it at retail and not a 5+ year old 2nd hand machine.

You have a good point. I recently got a SNES for $60 still with box, 2 controllers, all hookups and the following games:

Mega Man X

Yoshi's Island

Super Mario World

Donkey Kong Country 2

Looney Tunes Buster's Something

Xmen and Spiderman Arcade Revenge

Sparkster

Sim City

All from a yard sale. Go to yard sales. Got Super Mario Strikers for 2 dollars. There is gold in yard sales. Found Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 for 5 dollars. There is literally everything.

Wait until there is a sale on the super slim and get the 500gb console.

Also, don't shy away from digital games. Embrace them.

If you're interested I'm selling my ps3 and all my gamesbecause I have a ps4, here's a link to my eBay listing

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sony-PS3-Slim-120-GB-Bundle-18-games-/231292297525?pt=UK_VideoGames_VideoGameConsoles_VideoGameConsoles&hash=item35da186135

get the super slim, it is the most quiet among all... previous model fan all very loud is what most annoying to me...

Only one correct post so far with Just Cause 2 in it.

Eh.. I simply recommended the games which he should play first before going to other games!

hi there, as for the games i would recommend:
Uncharted 1,2,3
LittleBigPlanet 1,2
Killzone 2,3
Resistance 1,2,3
God Of War: Ascension
Heavy Rain
Beyond: 2 Souls
Sly Cooper trilogy
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
Heavenly Sword
Kingdom Heart 1.5 and 2.5
Demon Souls (seriously a must have)
and of course, most multiplatform games like Assassins Creed, COD, Battlefield, Dark Souls, etc...


as for the GOW, i suppose you're new to this series so i would like to recommend this:
God of War Saga (complete game package including 1,2,3 and other 2 ported from PSP EXCEPT Ascension)