I know this is one blog in a sea of many, but I had an opinion and I had a blog so I guess this will be a look back at the reasons why I don't own a PS3.

Most people cite the fact that the PS3 doesn't have any killer aps. Its never really been an issue of waiting for games as at least once a year a game comes out on the PS3 that would be in my do want list. My issue at the start was the price and the fact that Sony had no idea what they wanted to do with the PS3. Let me clarify that last part through my analysis of the 3 years of PS3.

First its $500 and it plays ps2 games. I'm not gonna pay over 300 for a console regardless of how shiny it is so I figured I'd wait a few years for a price drop (since I have a lot of PS2 games on the back burner) and I'd pick one up when its in my price range. Then they cut it to $400 and took out the backwards compatibility. Jack Tretton tells me to just buy a PS2 along with it if I wanted to play PS2 games. I looked at my mountain of PS2 games and my PS2 and scratched my head. Then they released the 80gb model and it had PS2 bc. I was excited again, but confused as to which PS3s had BC and which didn't. Then they stopped printing those and all my local stores only had non-BC PS3s. Now they reveal a slimmer and uglier (to me) PS3 with no BC at a price point in my range making me only wish I could play my PS2 Atlus games on it (since it takes forever to beat those anyway). Then John Koller says that 80-90% of PS3 purchasers are buying the console to play PS3 games and I sat there and finally said that actually makes sense since I can't figure out which ones play PS2 games and I doubt Jo Shmoe can either.

Many people argue why not just keep the PS2 next to the PS3 and I could always hope that my PS2 keeps working (it won't play the blue bottom discs without sounding like a tornado), but if I'm going to invest in a Playstation console in 2009/2010 I'd sure like it to play that mountain of old games I have.

I've also read through forum after forum that (for some reason they think this is actually relevant to the PS3) the 360 isn't truly backwards compatible and well, the 360 didn't really have much to worry about with backwards compatibility since they really didn't have too many Xbox games that were truly worth being compatible. The ones that were worth it were either multi-platform or eventually available on the 360 (except for Oddworld Stranger's Wrath somebody make that BC). I can also say that I've bought Psychonauts, Fable and Conker for my 360 and not my Xbox (which is now exclusively a DVD player), so I do play xbox games on my 360. I've also been stockpiling PS2 games (since they keep making them) and I'd like to play them on my upcoming future tech.

I'm sure many people would say that I'm not in Sony's demographic and that's probably false. I don't own an HD TV so I'm not looking for Blu-Ray, but I have owned nearly every console that has come out since the NES (except for the Gamecube which is why I bought a Wii) so I think I am a part of some demographic of theirs.

EDIT:
Totally wanted to make this image after I made this blog post which led to a decision to just post my gamer setup. It used to be nicer...but then I had a kid and well my game room was reduced to a corner in the Master Bedroom.




My hollow shell of a game room.

Some games