Congratulations on the PS3. Might I suggest picking up Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition if you like GTA? It's basically GTA but medieval, and an incredibly long first-person RPG. Hookers, sadly, are absent, but you're married, so why would you need the pixelated booty? And for the third time in the passed 2 hours, I promote the game Lair. lol, I'm sorry, but I really do enjoy that game, and believe it deserves more positive advertisement.

If you only do the main quest in Oblivion, then it won't last as long, but I'm currently up to 150 hours and I have yet to start the Shivering Isles expansion content (just finished Knights of the Nine expansion content). It's a great deal. I've recently discovered the difficulty slider and that's making things go faster, but it's the longest game I've ever played.

I can easily turn this around the other way

I didnt even consider Sony as an option because

a) Blu-Rays cost £20 each in the UK, and I still have a DVD collection, upscale is just fine and will be fine for years to come. Movies that come out now will still come out in DVD for years to come.

b) At the time of writing, I have to pay £110 more for a PS3 bundle than a 360 bundle and a further £25 for an extra controller, that easily covers 3 years Xbox Live and a wireless dongle.

c) I also already have an HD capable PC and have 2TB in hard-drive space. I am not cornholed into buying a £20 Blu-Ray everytime I want to watch a movie, I pay £3 for a rental of a HD movie which I will only want to watch once anyway. I can always buy the DVD if I really wanted it in my collection.

d) IMHO the only way you can play every game worth playing now (out since 2007) is if you own a 360 and Wii. If I didnt I wouldnt have played Gears, Bioshock, Portal, Lost Odyssey, Halo 3, Mass Effect all on launch day. If I had a PS3, the most I would have played is Resistance, Uncharted, NG Sigma maybe a bit of Warhawk but thats it. Let me not even get started with other multiplayer multiplatform games, just look at VGChartz software sales for your evidence.

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e) $20-$30 for GTA4:Ep1. Yea thats way expensive compared to keeping a high spec PC. Heck, this is even less cost that a Blu-Ray. Didnt you say this was your favourite game as well? Too bad you arent getting the full version.

f) Look you already made your purchase and I wont comment again. Im NOT going to say you made the wrong purchase. Its just you are pretty strong in dismissing 360, when clearly you know that it is the console of choice for 34% of the world market and there are clear reasons since you are a GTA4 fan. Look I dont know why im commenting, I guess im in a bad mood and you sound condescending. MS certainly have their faults, but its not a reason to take it out on their console.

PS3 is the cheapest blu-ray player. When you already have a HDTV it's better to have a Blu-ray player. Why up-scalling when you can afford a Blu-ray player? I assume a GTA fan would like to play the DLC. However Blu-ray is a stronger proposition, than DLC.

Since you got a PS3 you might want to check out Eight Days & 2 Days 2 Vegas.

Except he wants Blu-Ray.

This is HIS thread about why HE bought a ps3.  Stop trying to turn this into a ps3 vs 360 war. 

 Than wait some more ? Why should he , the sooner the better , and he has tons of time to play so why not ? 

I hear you on Oblivion, I played teh hell out of Morrowind and if I did ppurchase teh game I would be getting it for my PC because it will cost less.

@eagleeys I have Bioshock for my PC, Mass Effect comes out next month, Halo 3 doesn't interest me in the slightest, nor do any of the other games you mentioned. Sony will always have more PS3 only exclusives simply because they have more developers that only make games for them AND they aren't trying to take any of the PC gaming market like Microsoft is with their "Games for Windows" campaign.

 But isn't that the reason you don't buy from a company, because you don't like them. 

Why is everyone is pushing PS3 games at rasone77 that is nothing like GTA4. Obviously he likes the game play of GTA to buy a PS3, so you would think about pushing other games that will have similar game play that is not on the Wii. I figured games like Assassin's Creed, Prototype, Infamous, and Saints Row 2 would be good games in that "sandbox" genre. Maybe even MGS4 when it comes out.

 Anyone willing to pay $560 for one game (and there are a lot of people who do it), is not willing to wait for a bundle (You can't pre-order a bundle).