I've been mulling over the idea of getting a PS3 for a while. It has a browser in it, and that means I can write articles about developing for it, which means that I can write it off. But even so, I'm not jumping up and down to get it because there just aren't that many games I want to or can play. The count of hours that I have to play an adult game, like a shooter, where Megan is not around is very few. And even so, I'm not really into shooters right now since they are just so dull.
The sports games are good, but I don't really have any friends who are heavy into those at the moment. The Wii sports games play much more like games. Where the PS3 sports games are hyper-realistic. So you have to be a sports fan to really enjoy them. The only two sports games I think I could get some use out of would be golf and tennis. Golf for me, and Tennis for Mel and Lori. And I might be able to get Mel into the NHL game.
So there are only four titles I can think of that I would buy for it; Ratchet and Clank, Lemmings, Tiger Woods 08, Virtua Tennis. And looking at the preview of upcoming titles it's just more of the same. More shooters, more photo realistic sports games, etc. etc.
Blu-Ray playback is cool. But frankly I have HD DVD at the moment and I'm no huge rush to also support the Blu-Ray discs. Clearly Blu-Ray will win the format war, but that's likely to be a more gradual win.
Anywho, still teetering on the edge with the PS3. Anyone care to tip me one way or the other?
Posted by jherr at January 30, 2008 12:07 PMPlease Don't bother. Personally I don't think we need it. You maybe have 2 to 3 hours a week to do nothing but chill and I really don't want to compete with a game player that I can't really play. You haven't sold me on Blu-Ray either since you already have an HD DVD player.
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