actually the recent string of ps3 blog post have held mostly all truth. IF you want to beleive all the bad publicity and shoot downt the real facts, then go for it. Yes sony messed up with its cryptic hints and word games that they tend to love. Yes because of blu laser diode shortages they had to put back a euro launch. The bad publicity is cause by sony giving people like y ou to much credit and not figuring out what they were saying and the things you did, you missed parts of the political babble.



Sony may have a few problems at launch, but all consoles do. Microsoft did, and still are. Heating problems at frist, then disc scratches, then ring of death, now games causing the ring of death and crashes for no reason cept being rushed products. Sonys problems for the ps1 and 2 were the laser diodes first and formost, well besides the first bacth having no reagion codes built in. But those problems exist in all cd products. Cd's run at a constant low speed so they last longer, consoles run at half-near max speeds for loading and such. DVD's are the worse, the laserdiode for dvd's is inheritatedly crippled by short life spans. Although, I havnt had any problems with my PS1/PS2 since i got them when they first came out. Even with heavy use. My xbox was given to me and fixed by me after a disc read error, my brother beat his ps2 and ended up with the same. The cube, the only problem i have is when i switch it to another tv and accidtnly plug in the xbox plug and get only black n white no sound games. 600 dollars is worth it to me, i can go get a game, and another controller and be set for 700 easy. No online fees to worry about or anything. I agree withthe price comparison article that was posted earlier completley. But its about the consumers mind point, we can easily hit up mcdonalds a few times aday everyday and spend over a 120 dollars a week on their food and not even know it cause its small transations over a few days. I see the xbox360 choice system the same, you buy the core, get an acceory here, an added funtion there, and fi you go for the full package youll spend more over time for all the standard functions of the ps3, not even including online.



My point is this, be thankfull your getting good and bad up front, not all of its true but thats for you to figure out. If you want to save money, then weigh your options, functions, and needs. Even if your brain tells you that lots of small numbers are better than one big one.