Looking at the games you're lumping together, yes you need a PS3...in a year maybe... and if you REALLY must play mgs4 now. I have a feeling the game won't stay PS3 exclusive for long uless sony wants to fork out some cash...and looking at their strategy after the financial statement report, I don't think that will happen.

About this topic...If you are strapped for cash I guess you don't need the HD consoles to have a good time. I'm sure you will marvel when Wii introduces standard online play and a hard drive in a year or 2 and think you've made the best investment in the world.

If you wanna play with the cutting edge games, best console online network, best graphics, try demos out before you buy games...and you want to do that NOW you need an HD console.

As for PC owners... great gaming PC will demolish 360, ps3 or the wii...and wii may look like the best purchase of the 3. But trust me...a lot of my PC gamer freinds bought the wii and its collecting layers of dust.

if anything else, hd has hurt pc gaming because they are getting most of the games pc used have exclusively.

Thats pretty much what I've been thinking, I only really want a PS3/Xbox360 as I love Tech/gadgets, but game wise nothing makes me want to buy either of them as I have a new PC.

The games are flowing both ways, and the PC games are far cheaper. PC gamers with HD consoles almost always opt to go for the PC version of a shooter/RTS.

The question and the answer imo is JRPG.

If someone is not interested in JRPG's and buys or plans to buy all 360 multi-platformers he/she's interested in for the PC, there are not many reasons left to buy a 360 (you can even skip the few exclusive WRPG's like Fable2 as the PC can easily compete in this genre - and there's a big chance that Fable2 will come to the PC one day).

The PS3 is another story. I still think the library will have more interesting and diverse library of (really) exclusives than the 360 in 1 or 2 years, not only JRPG's. Games like Uncharted, GT, MGS and LBP are just the beginning.

Personally, I quit PC gaming about 10 years ago and up to now I skipped the HD consoles for a simple reason which is rarely mentioned by others (which makes me think I'm the only one with this reasoning):

I don't own a HD TV.

 You dont want a massive monitor for PC. 19" = perfect.

I'm in the same boat as Parokki.

Whenever I'm near a 360, I just play Hexic HD the whole time. Not to say it doesn't have games, but I'm in love with Hexic and anything Pajitnov makes and can barely get my hands off the thing.

If a 360 fell out of the sky I'd buy Beautiful Katamari, Dead Rising, and maybe Rock Band, but right now I definitely wouldn't pay for one.

Nothing on the PS3 interests me right now, and if one fell out of the sky I'd maybe rent a game or two, and then sell the thing.

PC is good enough for all my non-Wii needs. I'd be fine with just a Wii, but my PC will cover Spore and StarCraft 2 and Left 4 Dead.

The last PC game I bought was the Orange Box, and before that... Half-Life 2, and before that, uh... StarCraft?

 i don't have either. if ps4 will have real backward capability i will probably buy it instead of ps3 of course when i will be able to buy a hd tv for normal price.

i quit pc gaming too, and i dont need it, i got a ps3. I use to like pc gaming because their games always looked better, but now there's barely a difference.

OT : Some PC games seem to last a very long time, for example I know many people (including myself) that play AOE and AOE2 on the PC.

BOT : I'm keeping an eye on all HDC games and I plan to play a few on my friends machine.

MontanaHatchet : I find it very stange that someone could get motion sickness from playing anything on the source engine (apart from looping in Portal), it's much slower then something like Quake 3.

ssj12 : A 22" Widescreen monitor is even better as it's no taller and yet it gives you more vision, for RTS it's perfect.