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Iceman_II · 09-13-2007, 10:16 AM

I've never been a gamer, never had a PS anything, and my last game system was a nintendo 64... but dude, your attitude is, shall we say, offensive... you truly need to clear up your case of cranial-rectal inversion.

You have fallen into the "trap" of pidgeon-holing the PS3 as Game system - with the added benefit of the addition of a blue ray player. You couldn't BE more wrong (as Chandler Bing would say)

The PS3 is NOT a game system that happens to play BD, it is a solid piece of home media center engineering, that not only plays BD, plays your music, runs slideshows (even using the SD or CF cards direct from your camera) surfs the net in 1080p, runs streaming media (stills, audio, and video) wirelessly from a media server on your home network (try TVersity), plays MP4 files in beautiful HD (an hour long HD TV show is about 700M), allows you a simple plug and play upgrade for the hard drive without voiding the warrantee (using an off the shelf laptop drive), allows you to load linux as a second operating system, is infinitely upgradable through firmware (one click, and it downloads and installs its own updates), will eventually have DVR capabilities (coming to europe first) lets you hook up external USB drives for additional storage (if you don't want to upgrade the internal hard drive)... oh, and by the way, it plays games.

Get over your prejudices, if you get one, and actually do more with it than simply pop in pirates, or play guitar hero, you will understand why so many PS3 zealots want to spread the "good news"

If however, you are locked into the eleteist mindset that it is only a gaming system, and nothing more, feel free to get a stand alone and only use it for movies... but remember, a VERY large part of the success of BD can be laid at the feet of a humble little gaming system.

Thats my $.02

Edit:
GT4 and Guitar Hero? Before you slam the games, try games that were actually written to take advantage of the cell processor... try GT-HD, Resistance - Fall of Man, Oblivion or Heavenly Sword...

One other thing, through the "folding at home" project, the PS3 is even contributing to finding a cure for cancer! What more could you ask for in a simple little "gaming system"?

09-13-2007, 10:16 AM	#2
Iceman_II Expert Member Member since:Jan 2007 Location:Ft. Worth Home Theater Gallery:2 Blu-ray collection:308 Blu-ray reviews: 4	I've never been a gamer, never had a PS anything, and my last game system was a nintendo 64... but dude, your attitude is, shall we say, offensive... you truly need to clear up your case of cranial-rectal inversion. You have fallen into the "trap" of pidgeon-holing the PS3 as Game system - with the added benefit of the addition of a blue ray player. You couldn't BE more wrong (as Chandler Bing would say) The PS3 is NOT a game system that happens to play BD, it is a solid piece of home media center engineering, that not only plays BD, plays your music, runs slideshows (even using the SD or CF cards direct from your camera) surfs the net in 1080p, runs streaming media (stills, audio, and video) wirelessly from a media server on your home network (try TVersity), plays MP4 files in beautiful HD (an hour long HD TV show is about 700M), allows you a simple plug and play upgrade for the hard drive without voiding the warrantee (using an off the shelf laptop drive), allows you to load linux as a second operating system, is infinitely upgradable through firmware (one click, and it downloads and installs its own updates), will eventually have DVR capabilities (coming to europe first) lets you hook up external USB drives for additional storage (if you don't want to upgrade the internal hard drive)... oh, and by the way, it plays games. Get over your prejudices, if you get one, and actually do more with it than simply pop in pirates, or play guitar hero, you will understand why so many PS3 zealots want to spread the "good news" If however, you are locked into the eleteist mindset that it is only a gaming system, and nothing more, feel free to get a stand alone and only use it for movies... but remember, a VERY large part of the success of BD can be laid at the feet of a humble little gaming system. Thats my $.02 Edit: GT4 and Guitar Hero? Before you slam the games, try games that were actually written to take advantage of the cell processor... try GT-HD, Resistance - Fall of Man, Oblivion or Heavenly Sword... One other thing, through the "folding at home" project, the PS3 is even contributing to finding a cure for cancer! What more could you ask for in a simple little "gaming system"? Last edited by Iceman_II; 09-13-2007 at 10:26 AM.