I don't know if anyone has said this already, but you can get a pretty good price on the PS3 right now. Circuit City, for instance, has the PS3, an extra controller, and the 5 free Blu-Ray movie deal for $499. Amazon has a similar deal with 6 movies and a Blu-Ray remote.
The controller is $50 itself, Blu-Ray movies are an average of $20 a piece as well. The 360 is actually the most "overpriced" right now because a Blu-Ray player is worth at least $200. The Wii is a bargain if you are into that kind of gaming. My only problem with it is that it is more like a toy than an aesthetic experience which I think immersive games like Oblivion, Lair, Killzone, Uncharted (among others) can accomplish.
So, in short, I would recommend a PS3 first and a Wii second. Unfortunately for the 360, many of its best games come out on the PC either simultaneously (Bioshock, Mass Effect), or somewhere down the road (Gears of War, Halo 3). Most of Nintendo and Sony's first party games never see the PC, for better or worse. The 360 is a great console, don't get me wrong, but to complement your PC, I think a PS3 or a Wii would be better. Just pick the one with games that suit you better. IGN has the best comprehensive database on upcoming games and reviews for older games.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
