then it will kill the whole purpose of this thread. :P

You didn't read anything he said, did you? He already has DMC4 for the 360 and he doesn't like the R&C games. He also has a Wii and a 360 so he does have other things to play. He just doesn't really have much to play on the PS3 and he sort of regrets getting it early.

On Topic: I always wondered how PS3 owners have so much patientence. If I bought a PS3 at launch for FF13 I would be upset right now too. Especially since Sony seems to be putting more emphasis on the few genres the Xbox was known for like shooters, racers, etc... I wanted to get a PS3 at launch for the new Tekken. I would've been livid right now as I haven't heard much about that game since the E3 with the Killzone tech demo.

It goes a bit beyond saying you'd be hard pressed to build even a decent gaming PC for the price of a 360, even at $450 for an Elite.

The price of a decent CPU and graphics card alone would cost $450.

For the sake of arguing, sure, you could buy an 8600GT 256MB for well under $100, and an older Intel Core 2 for under $150. But add MoBo, RAM, HDD, case, PSU and OS and you're still well over $450.

Cut too many corners in terms of components and you'll be left with a gaming PC that isn't capable of playing any of the current games on even minimal settings. Worse yet, you'll be left with a minimum configuration that may not play games a year in the future at a playable frame rate.

The 360 really is a cheap solution to PC gaming, which is one of the problems damaging the PC gaming market and one of the real reasons why PC gamers are so hostile towards consoles more than ever.

But I don't buy the constant upgrade argument against gaming PCs as 100% valid. A decent configuration will last at least two years, which is the general life span of a desktop PC before a major upgrade even for non gaming purposes. Yes, people can stretch their PCs longer (I've been using the same Powerbook without problems for about 4 years), but generally speaking, 2-3 years is average.

The constant upgrading for gaming PCs largely boils down to keeping up with the Joneses and maintaining a "respectable" if not envy inducing rig. The omnipresent PC gamer obsession with high frame rates at high resolutions for the latest games only reinforces this mindset. But there has to be a gauge for performance to justify new hardware. Truth be told, running at 1280x720 at 60fps would be matching high performance for most current 360 and PS3 games. Running at 1920x1080 at 60fps would exceed all but the best games on either platform (of which there may be one or two examples for either the 360 or PS3).

But if you feel the need to run the latest system crushing games at max resolution with all effects on max, then yes, you must pay to upgrade video cards on a 1-2 year basis if buying high end cards. Is it necessary to run the latest games at a playable (30-60fps) frame rate and 1280x720 resolution (minimum)? No.

Yeah vaccuumcleaners are expensive this days;

I like to watch movies at home. I don't buy movies either. Why can't you rent BRs to take advantage of the PS3 and your HDTVs?

Play Super Stardust HD.

dude wtf is your problem.
you bought all the multiplat games for your 360... exclusives are hard to come by nowadays, but you know there are plenty of great games that you simply say you don't like.
D/L Castlevania Symphony of the Night for ps3 you'll love it.
Do something, because there are a lot of games that are rated very highly that you are dissing.
To me (in all honesty) It sounds like you are trolling that ps3 has no games when i have 5 that i play regularly.
Fifa 08, The Bigs, Cod4, MLB08TheShow, Folklore. By the way, how did you "beat" a soccer game?

So, you bought a PS3, bought a bunch of multi-platform games for it, don't like any of the exclusives, and now you buy all your multi-plats on 360. On top of that, you don't buy movies.

Yep, not the brightest of ideas.

a decent gaming pc doesnt mean you spend 200 bucks every two years for a graphics card. u spend it once for the 512mb card once then you dont have to worry bout it for at least 6-8 years. in my computer i am  on now the graphics card i had bought 8 years ago and it still plays amazing and i play wow and half life 2 granted i cant play bioshock but the processor i hvae cant do it now. my next pc i am getting will cost roughly 700-1000 dollars and will last me 5-6 years and i can enjoy better graphics then the ps3 and 360 which tech now has made them look outdated now.

If I'm still using the same midrange PC I recently configured (Q6600 Quad 3GB/9600GT 1GB) in 5-6 years, something is seriously, seriously wrong.

If it's still usable for current games during the lifespan of the PS3 (another 5-6 years), I'll consider it one of the best bangs for the buck (even better than the PS3 at $600) considering it wasn't even purchased primarily for games. 

2-3 years is a perfectly reasonable lifespan for a desktop PC given how cheap they are to build/configure or just buy preconfigured these days.  

It seems unlikely one wouldn't experience some sort of critical component failure in a 5-6 year time frame, but if not, rest assured, I won't be complaining. Of course, I won't be using that PC by then anyway, so it's a moot point.  

But as for today, as a long time console gamer since the time consoles were literally introduced (Odessey w/ Pong), a decent gaming rig unquestionably allows better display output than any 360 game will ever provide just due to the laws of thermodynamics given the CPU/GPU/memory differences. A quick play through Portal on the PC compared to Portal on the 360 made that pretty clear, at least in terms of resolution. All other visual aspects were the same though. And it played better with the controller since I've never liked playing with "WADS" and probably never will. 

But when it came to Half Life 2 Coast with HDR effects, suddenly paying to play Orange Box on the 360 seemed pretty pointless other than being able to use the 360 controller. Visually, a major difference even just by taking advantage of the high output res and additional effects. 

Since the PC plays on the same big screen as the 360/PS3/Wii, with wireless keyboard/mouse, about the only games I'll be buying for the 360 in the future will be 360 exclusives not ported down from PC.  

As for the PS3, there is a current list of exclusives never to show up on PC in addition to the list of upcoming exclusives never to show up on PC as well. It doesn't matter if a gaming PC could output higher resolutions at higher framerates if the games are never made available for PC.