PS3 Price Drop

[Demon Cleaner]

Still too early (expensive? A house and a car are expensive, but not a console).

[Submeg]

Dude, my source of income is working 14 hrs a week...I have to pay for overpriced, overtaxed petrol first Im saving for turntables and such anyway

[AlexJ]

Still too early (expensive? A house and a car are expensive, but not a console).

The PS3 is expensive. It's all relative, the PS3 is expensive when compared to other consoles, and when following past trends, the price will drop. On the other hand it's possible to get a good deal on a car that means it isn't that expensive (for a car).

[Demon Cleaner]

I understand what you mean, but I have a different approach.

[Teho]

Whether the PS3 is expensive or not depends entirely on what you want from it. For example, I very much wanted a Blu-ray player. Not enough to buy a stand-alone one at the price they were at (or still is at), but getting a next-gen console and a player together for less than what the stand-alone players cost at the time? I didn't find it expensive at all. Add that a recent firmware upgrade added DVD-movie upscaling, you will have to buy a pretty expensive DVD-player to get one that has better image quality than the one you get with the PS3 right now. These three items alone is in my opinion definitely worth the price of the PS3 and then some.

If you on the other hand don't care about these and other additional features and are only looking for a game console, then yes it seems expensive.

[TiredOfLife]

Not in a rush to buy one just yet.
Not exactly flush at the mo.
Want to see the price drop a bit and see a lot more titles before I get involved.
The games would also have to be significantly better than on the PS2.
Haven't seen one in action, so don't know if this is the case or not yet.

[J T]

Every now and then I think about hi-def spangly graphics and wanting in, but I don't really play videogames enough right now to justify spending that sort of cash - especially as I have the Wii and DS already to take care of my gaming needs. The Xbox360 is more tempting to me at the moment I have to admit - I hear a lot of good things about the online services and things on other boards and it does sound quite good. Again, though, not good enough to make me splash the cash right now.

[v85rawdeal]

Just bought my PS3 from Argos.

£399.96 incl. 2 games and an extra Sixaxis controller.

PLUS... I put it on my Argos card, which means I can pay it off over the next 9 months without paying interest.

Expensive? Yes... Affordable??? Oh hell yeah!

[Submeg]

I think I will wait til Christmas at least

[Teho]

Just bought my PS3 from Argos.

Finally, I am not alone.

There's still not a whole lot of interesting games out for it though, but there are some. There's of course Motorstorm and Resistance which I bet is the two you got with the console. I personally didn't find Motorstorm to be that great, but it was enjoyable. But Resistance rules, especially the multiplayer is a lot of fun. Several other titles have gotten good reviews though I personally haven't bothered getting them, such as Virtua Fighter, Ridge Racer, Genji, Fomula One Championship and some others.

Then there's the upcoming games over the next few months, The Darkness is released in a couple of days. I allready got it through this guy I know, but I haven't played it that much yet. It certainly seems good so far. It's getting great reviews anyway. And there's the one's everybody's allready heard of, like Lair, GTA4, MGS4, Heavenly Sword, Assassin's Creed and so on. There's also the new Colin McRae coming, which looks far better than Motorstorm to me. And there's this shooter called Haze on it's way, which there's only been a teaser of so far. It was really well made though, and what it showed looked interesting so I'm keeping an eye out for that.

And then there's the online shop, which has some great little games costing virtually nothing, such as Stardust, Tekken, Calling All Cars and a good few others. There's also game and blu-ray movie trailers on there, and demos of some full games. The Darkness demo was added last thursday for example. The shop updates on fridays usually, and the updates range from poor to pretty good. I.e. sometimes there's only a couple of trailers, sometimes a pretty decent new game is added. And they never cost much. Some have free demos even, but even if they don't the low price means you're not losing much by trying them out.

So there's still many things to try while all in all the games library still isn't very big.