Is it too late to buy a PS3?

[Slimebeast]

Wii_R2_Hardcore said:
Are there enough people playing old games online? (Excuse me for being ignorant, but that is why I am asking: Educate me!). I mean, I don't know much about online gaming and I may get the PS3 almost exclusively to play online. How many years do you think we may have support for the console in terms of games and servers?

That's a great question and I wish we knew more.

From my experience, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood has up to a few hundred players playing online at the same time, Crysis 2 (from Spring 2011) has perhaps a couple hundred players online at any time.  Two Worlds 2 (niche RPG from late 2010) has around 10-20 guys playing at any given time. Dante's Inferno (2010) usually has none.
(it seems that PSN online gaming is divided into regions since I meet players from all over the world but seldom from the USA).

Servers will probably be kept online for a long time (many years) but my problem is that there simply are not enough players in the PSN echo system to support smaller and older games.