I understand what your saying, if you can spend 500-600 dollars on a game machine you should be able to afford 30-60-90 dollars a month on internet depending on where you live. I don't have the internet in my apartment mostly because I don't care for online gaming and I can go to dad's house and update my systems. Vaild point though.

Also, there are people who are not willing to pay an internet subscription JUST for PS3... aka people without PCs.

I just wanna say ANOTHER way to update your PSP. Get your PSP. Drive around town. Find a un-secure WiFi node. Download PS3 patch to PSP. Plug PSP into PS3. Copy Patch to PS3. Run Patch. I promise you. It is *REALLY* reasy to find un-secure WiFi... I've yet to find a city that I cant find one. (I live in a city with 5000 people, and I know of about 20 places) I can be driveing back a *country farm road* and usually find one every 5-10 miles. Or less! PSP is your friend.

Jeez $150 a month? I'm only paying $40, granted I don't have a 10MB connection. I have a 6MB, but you are paying 375% as much as I'm paying. You sure you don't have the Comcast package that charges you $150 a month for phone, cable, and broadband?

Check this out on PSU.com "European PlayStation fans were bickering when Sony announced that the legacy hardware (PlayStation 2 Emotion Engine) was being removed for the European launch of the PlayStation 3 console. They were afraid their favorite titles wouldn't be compatible with the system. Luckily for them, Phil Harrison recently confirmed that the PAL/Euro version of the PlayStation 3 currently supports over 1,200 compatible PS2 titles, with more to be added to the current list before March 23rd. This will be via a firmware upgrade to 1.60, as the consoles were shipped over 4 weeks ago (and obviously aren't updated with the latest firmware). The software emulation also allows for select titles to be upscaled to 720p/1080i, and will receive constant updates in order to support more PS2 games. It's looking like the new method of backwards compatibility is looking to be more of a bonus than a handicap." -PSU.com Granted PSU.com is somewhat of a fanboy site, I have found that they are pretty accurate in their news reporting. I am anxious to see what select few titles support the upscaling. There are several ps2 games I would still like to play, but they just look so jagged.

Some people bugger about this, but Microsoft does theirs the same way and only has 300 titles to date with reverse compatibility. 1200 titles is good. And you can bet they probably have the most popular ones in that batch. Eventually they will have the whole thing done and then we won't have to ever worry about needing chips from the PS3 to play PS3 games when you get your PS4. They will have the whole library on software and it will lead to lower part costs.

I have to say that is one thing about this whole surge to provide online connectivity that kinda sucks. I makes the companies lazy. All previous versions of nintendo's never needed any sort of firmware upgrade that I am aware of. Yet, now that there is online from day one on the Wii it has been updated atleast twice since launch. Kinda ridiculas. They can do it right the first time, it just takes a lot of planning and testing. I understand that we have to download firmware changes for new channels or the opera browser, but built-in functionality like the damn SD card should have been perfect on launch. On a side note I pay $70 for 8MB connection. I do think US pays more than an average European for broadband.

here in Sweden everybody have broadband. I have 100MB connection and it cost me $50 :D. It seems that USA is little behind. I had 10MB in 5years and it also cost $50 I thought that 10MB was really fast till I got 100MB a year ago O_O.