OK, so after saving up from my birthday and christmas, I decided to take advantage of Circuit City's sale and got a PS3 with Uncharted. The following are my first impressions:

1. First thing I noticed: it's shiney. Looks very sleek and fancy. Love to look at it.

2. Menu. Menu is really nice and organized, but I perfer the Wii's menu a little more.

3. Internet: Laggy. Very hard to get around, and some sllllllooooooooowwwww loading times.

4. PSN. Very cool. Nice and organized like the menu, but loading veeeeeery slooooooooooow. (Clicked to download Motorstorm demo, still loading right now)

5. finally, Uncharted. Extremely fun. Reminds me of a Jungle Zelda with shooter elements and realistic enemies (sort of) Graphics were nowhere NEAR what PS3 fanboys said, but I was still impressed.

Overall:

Game: 9.0/10

System overall: 8.0/10

Better then Wii? No.

Worth my purchase: so far I'm satisfied.

Can't wait for Uncharted 2, LBP, Motorstorm, and many others. :)

Congrats on your purchase, hope you'll enjoy all the other games!

I'm still hoping to get a ps3 later on this year...

congrats and as for PSn it's your connection ,,,I have no problem in PSN I usually download demos (800mb) around 12 min.(i have 10 Mbit/sec high speed internet)


also what TV are you playing the games on?


get:
MGS4
killzone 2
lbp
ratchet and clanck future and booty(future 2 will come out this year )
motorstorm 2
and save money for 09 as there are lots of good games coming out in 09

Oooo...I'll put some first thoughts here too since I've been asked a lot lately.

I really love all my games so far. Motorstorm Pacific Rift is excellent, but it has that online setup I hate. Still very fun though. Competition online in ranked matches is fierce.

Metal Gear Solid 4 is fantastic as I expected. I'm in the beginning of Chapter 3, which is the first time I'm getting a little annoyed with this tailing the resistance guy bit, but the story is awesome. Plus Otacon finally gets some! MGO I haven't even tried yet, because the setup to get in is worse than using Friend Codes on Wii. Seriously Konami, shame on you for your bullshit online process. I've got enough games to play online anyways.

Warhawk is perfect. I didn't expect it to be my favorite. I just found it cheap at Walmart for $30 with the headset so I scored it on a whim. It's one of the best onlines I've ever experienced.

Now to the system itself. The XMB is nicely setup. I'm familiar with it because of my PSP. Free themes are awesome. I've got some big boobed chick from PAIN and she's got her ass haning out of a pair of daisy dukes. She moans when I click on an option. Very nice!

Now to some things I don't like:

1. Content-It's just not there. There are less demos on PSN by a wide margin. A lot of PSN games don't have demos and I find that to be a bit odd. Every XNA and XBLA game has a demo mandatory and I would have expected Sony to make them mandatory also. Guess not.

2. Mailbox-Maybe I'm just a dummy and I don't see, but there doesn't seem to be any notice that I have new mail. Sure I get a quick pop-up when it comes in, but if I'm away or my kid is watching a DVD on there, which is often, I'll need to go into my mailbox to see if I got mail. On top of that, you get no indication on which have been read and which haven't. They don't bold and unbold the titles to help tell the difference.

3. Downloading-It's takes forever. It took my over an hour to download the 2.1 patch for MGO today, and that was all for naught, so it was especially annoying. Demos take a good 40 minutes for approx 700MB-1GB of demo. That's before the install, which I find to be very annoying. If I go away while my PS3 downloads demos, I'll still need to sit through an install process, which is like 4 minutes itself once I'm back. Couldn't that have all been done in one fell swoop?

Overall though, these are minor things, and don't take away from what really matters, which is kicking ass in Warhawk. Warhawk rules!

For #3, are you talking about the web browser?

For #5, how awesome did you think it would be? Do you have an HDTV?

Anywho, congratz on your purchase!  PM me your friend code, plz.

Congrats dude. And I recommend an HD setup of atleast 720p on 26+ inches. Ask around on this site and I'm sure alot of people can give you great options with nice prices.

Congrats to OP and awesome to Onxy.

Uncharted does look top notch though, sadly you MUST have an HDTV running @ 1080p to truly notice how big the gap is its UNREAL.

Btw Onxy whens are warkhawk crusade gonna start buddy?

@onyx

are you gonna give LBP a try?

cause at first(like he first 3 months the game was released)i said hell that's too childish for me but one of my friend brought it over and I couldn't stop laughing while playing.It's what games are supposed to be .if you can get over the childish look ,you are in for good times.



also about motorstorm2,,,I remember saying that motorstorm is like burnout,, one in city ,one off road,,,now that you have played it what's your thought on that?(the only two racing games I have are burnout and motorstorm )

i don't get this thread..........

Hey Onyxmeth, unread messages have an upside down arrow in the icon, plus new messages show up as little envelope icons next to the person who sent them with a number underneath saying how many