ah, we already clarified that the PS3 was the best value for him, and not necessarily everybody else.

Well I do agree except that you don't need a Wii Remote recharge pack. The article seems fine otherwise as they're clearly talking about the value of the hardware.

Its simple

You got kids that are under 12 get a Wii its the best value.

You like watching loads of movies and playing games get a PS3 its the best value

You like gaming and are not bothered about movies then get an Xbox 360 its the best value.

Circumstance people....its all down to circumstance.

With console value it has to be the PS3 really.... No not saying its the "Better" console (getting annoyed with that stupid fanboy shit) but really it cant be argued when comparing features.

ah the impartial opinion of a PS3 fan site, next week, which console has better games? (from 360ftw.com)

Vergis said: With console value it has to be the PS3 really.... No not saying its the "Better" console (getting annoyed with that stupid fanboy shit) but really it cant be argued when comparing features.

Actually, it can be argued, as different people would value different features. For this household, movie playback is irrelevant. We have a couple of perfectly good DVD players, and we're not willing to pay the premium price over DVD to get a BR disk. So the value of Sony's forced Blu-Ray to us is $0. However, we also have games from all 3 of the prior-gen systems. Thus, backwards compatibility is a desired feature. As we already have the prior systems, there is no additional financial cost to us, however, we do have a critical cost that is only in the PS2-3 issue- system space. Our switch boxes are full. By getting a PS3, we would have to choose to not have something else hooked up. That's not a price we're willing to pay, so even at $0, it's just not valuable to us.

Now, if you want to look only at paper, and say that you need everything that is shoehorned into a system, you can get a different story. One of the powers of competition is the ability to choose what is the best value for each on an individual basis. If you don't need Blu-ray, wireless, motion, etc, then don't factor it. At that point, it becomes a very cloudy picture as to which is truely the best value...