And that's why consumers really need to do a bit of basic homework before buying into a hardware platform if it's going to make you feel "stuck" to it afterwords or you see it as some sort of long term investment (IMO, consumer electronics aren't).
Frankly, with the PS3, if it's not the platform exclusives, or you don't have any interest in buying movies on BD, why would anyone pay $400 for a game console? The media hub functions? Home? Seriously.
If I had built a gaming PC, or even picked up a decently specced OEM PC before buying an Xbox, I would never have bothered in the first place. Instead I spent close to $600 on Xbox hardware before building a gaming PC explicitly for overclocking/hardware experiments and gaming. It goes without saying a $1600 PC build would have given me quite a few more upgrade options than a $1000 build.
As for the whole multimedia functionality, I still use the PS3 for video playback, even with a TV tuner/DVR, Windows Media remote equipped PC (only works once WMC is launched). Other than for programmed video recording (excellent if you use DVR), it's just quicker and easier to watch video on the PS3 (with the remote).
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