I do like buying products early and I do like watching them get better over time, however I don’t like spending the money before it’s something that I can get some real use out of though.

I guess my biggest fear of the PS3 is that unless it has some mass appeal beyond the “early adopters” and tech heads who just have to have the latest that evolution will never get fully realized. Take a look at consoles like the 3D0, massive amounts of potential and horsepower but it never went anywhere because it was too expensive and at it’s price it didn’t offer many games over the competition. As a result the platform died before it’s potential could ever be realized. I think the PS3 has enough support that it wont die young, so to speak, but I do think the market trend could lead it to never reaching it’s full potential like the PS1 and PS2 did before it.

I understand your point. I’m also pretty sure that you wil be purchasing a PS3 sometime in the future. I believe this because there are many things that make the PS3 a very scalable system when compared to other consoles and these things will set PS3 games apart from what other consoles will to offer. For example:

* 50GB of space on every disc instead of the 9GB

* Support for true 7.1 surround sound over hdmi.

* Support of open standard technologies, such as BlueTooth. (This is why PS3 users will be able to play games like “Rock Band” at a more affordable price.)

* Support for non-proprietary harddrives. This gives you the option of adding a larger harddrive, again, at a more affordable price.

You see, I really get your point when you say “you can’t have fun with potential”. The thing is that I think that some people (like yourself) live in the “now” and demand instant gratification after they pay thier hard earned dollars of an item, while other people (early adopters, like myself) enjoy watching things evolve and get better in time. I guess it all depends on how your wired.

Thanks for the good read.

@andy
I’m sorry if you think my opinion isn’t worth anything because I don’t own a PS3. You seem to miss the point of the article. The article really covers the reasons why I don’t yet own one and lists the different things Sony could do (anyone one of them, not all of them) that would make me buy one tomorrow. I wrote it because I’ve heard numerous questions from PS3 owners asking me why I don’t own one yet. So Thinking through I listed the things that I felt Sony could do that would get me to buy one.

I realize that different consoles have different things to offer but if you look at the list everything there is something that the PS3 offers as a feature that I’m simply asking them to make more worth while.
1. more games
2. delivering on a pre-launch promise (this goes in line with them stating they would match Xbox Live “feature for feature”)
3. backing up their graphics and online features with a guarantee
4. a price that makes the console more valuable
5. better backward compatibility
6. HD movies without the threat of becoming obsolete.

Those are all based on the PS3′s characteristics I’m simply asking Sony to put a little more backbone behind them. It’s true that a lot of them are related to the 360 as well but thats because the 360 came out first and set the bar. I expect the PS3 to offer a superior performance to the PS2 before it, why not all console’s before it? Would you be satisfied with the PS3 if it failed to offer features that you loved in the PS2?

Again they don’t need to do all of those things. Just doing any one of them would satisfy me. What I’m really getting at is the PS3 seems to do a lot of things 2nd best and it doesn’t have any single area where it outshines the competition. All I’m asking is that they work to make the PS3 the best console in one of the areas that are important to me. Most of these wouldn’t be all that difficult for them to do, and I think they would be in a much healthier market position if they did do them.

Very interesting list! So OOC, do any one of those 6 have to be true? Or all 6? I agree with alot, like achievements, online, needed games, etc.. But there seems to be some inconsistency?

ie, the req for a headset and HD cables. That seems to be slanted towards the 360 core price range? More key to me for $300 would be wireless controllers over a headset. And it seems like for $300 you’d need less games, as you were saying for the Wii you only needed 3 games due to its price range?

All in all, not a bad list IMHO. = ) Though, it seems like the PS3 is less the console for you than the 360, just based on the games you like. You seem more the hardcore gamer, which is the 360′s target market. I do enjoy my PSWii60, but for the PS3, I quite enjoy Motorstorm, Super Stardust HD, and am really looking forward to Uncharted, Ratchet & Clank, Heavenly Sword, etc.. Heh. And I’d kill for a Jak on there. But those are the games that don’t seem to do it for you, but the type of games that the PS3 is pushing.

Peace,