Good:
IMO, the best lineup this Christmas (ckmlb made a good thread about this http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=5141 )
No serious hardware problems whatsoever so far.
Sony is a powerhouse first-party publisher.
Plays BR's.
Greater "potential" (in the form of more disc space and potentially more processing power).
PSN is free and is pretty good.
Home.
MGS4 and FFXIII.
Customizable backgrounds (this is WAY coo cause they post good ones on the PSN. I don't know if the 360 can do this).
DVR in its future.
Firmware updates are often very rewarding with new features.
There are more, but that should be enough.
Bad:
Price (although certainly better than it used to be).
PSN reliability (it is good, but not as good as XBL, but then again it is free).
No rumble (not a big deal to me, but some people really care).
"Tacked-on" motion-sensing (once again, not a big deal to me, but it is for some people. The problem should get better, not worse).
Slow with downloadable PS1 game updates (this one pisses me off possibly the most, they haven't added many since launch, only Castlevania: SOTN. But at least you can play them without a PSP now).
Losing some exclusives.
Games can often be delayed (both good and bad depending on how you look at it).
Difficult to program for (Sony seems to be helping in this area by sending people to work on the Unreal 3 Engine and updating dev kits).
Not as PC-crossover friendly as the 360.
Not as casual friendly as the Wii.
Worse backward compatibility in the new model.
Japanese PSN store gets preferential treatment (also pisses me off, but you can make a Japanese account and get the free stuff easily, so it could be worse).
Hopefully some of these will help with your decision. On the whole I really like the PS3, especially given the game lineup this Christmas. Once again, ckmlb had a great thread about this.
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
