I have mine sitting in the closet. Once you jump to PS4, it becomes obsolete aside from digital purchases (I believe they should carry over personally, but alas).

Sheer value in exsisting library, yes PS3 is better (this is the whole PS3 vs PS2 convo from a decade ago all over again). However if you have any interest in current gen titles, the PS3 will be worthless as most games coming out from 2016 onward will be current gen only, and the trend will continue to grow as time goes on. So in the end, it depends on how badly you want to play new games now that last gen is finally being put to rest by most devs.

Still wouldn't know how to tranfer all the games that are currently on my PS3 HDD to a new HDD.  With a 360 its super easy to tranfer any kind of file from a internal HDD to a external HDD. 

Why are you throwing in a drive that you really and honestly don't need to use much of in 2016 for gaming on PC?.

You do realise a lot more game digitally on the platform than to use physical disks?. For consoles all the way yeah on physical disk usage because that is a strong and common thing to see but on PC it's really not that common as you think, especially forking out for a BR drive to play games on PC, probably the rarest cost to throw in if ever.

Also you can grab a gamepad for at least £25 from various stores online.

How about we include a mouse + keyboard + monitor how about a extra controller (that is another 50-60€ to add) it's a gaming pc after all and is that correct that you can't play blue-ray with this?

sorry you get more value for a ps3 after all.

Shortest answer: No.

Short answer: LOL no, not unless you like an OS so sluggish and designed so poorly that you console freezes for 8 minutes because you were playing a game and had the audacity to check your messages. I liked my PS3, if you take out my hundreds and hundreds of hours of CoD4/5 on 360, I probably played the PS3 as much as my 360. But no, hell no. That OS is just too bad to use.

Dreamcast, 360, Wii, these are correct answers imho.

its an important apsect for a gamer. Not every PS3 has to be fully installed on the hardrive those it saves HD space.

And having a Blue Ray laser and using Blue Ray discs means that the games are a lot more reliable than DVDs, the laser is stronger and the Blue Ray discs have an extra protection over DVDs. This means you dont have to worry about buying games used, they will work 99% of the times.

I have tottally scratched copy of Resident Evil 1 on the PS1. The disc wont play on PS1 or PS2 but on PS3 it does because the laser is stronger.

For a PS3 you need the BRD and an extra external if you wanted or maybe even a bigger internal drive but PC's of today really don't absolutely need a CD Drive let alone one specifically built for Blu Ray discs.

Most PC games these days don't even use BRD let alone being BR disks in general, used PC games are also practically a thing of the past these days, on consoles though it's not.

For scratched disks you could go to your local GAME store and have it slightly fixed for a small fee, a store my mate owns downtown back when I gamed on 360 charged at least near £10 to have the disk fixed to a better condition than what it was before. That said you could also do it your way as well.

Very good Bang for your buck but i would say 3ds. It is a little cheaper price point great library and still a few games coming out for it and it's back logged library of the ds catalogue makes it incredible.

The PS3 is actually a terrible choice for just playing Blu ray movies or streaming.  I can buy a top notch Blu Ray player for less then 1/3 of the price of a PS3 and it will be miles better then a PS3 in both playing Blu ray movies and streaming media (Netflix, Hulu, Youtube etc.).  On top of all that it will do it while using less then 1/4 power of the PS3.  Using a PS3 instead of a Blu ray player for watching Blu ray movies or streaming is like using a oven to warm up food instead of a microwave.

Xbox gives me no reason to upgrade to 360