Letters to the Editor
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Still waiting for some games
Sony can drop the price of the PS3 to $100 if they want. I don't think it's going to get them back into the race until they have some solid exclusives that show off what the console can do.
I work in the videogame industry, so I needed to buy a PS3 for work purposes, but I held off as long as I could. Finally, once the 60 GB model was discounted and discontinued, I broke down and bought one for the hardware backward compatibility. That was more than two months ago, and I still don't have a single game for it. If a game comes out for the PS3 and X360, I go with the X360 version, because I like the controller and the online service much better.
I did buy one Blu-Ray movie, to test the quality on my fancy-pants new HDTV, but even on my brand-new 42" plasma with its HDMI inputs, there wasn't a huge enough difference in quality to justify paying $10-15 more per movie by buying the Blu-Ray version instead of the DVD.
Maybe in a year or two, when Sony's finally lined up some killer console exclusives on par with Halo 3, and their online service is competitive with Microsoft's, and they put the freakin' rumble feature back in the controllers, this will be a console worth buying. But even though this holiday season should be better for them than last one (and really, could it have been much worse?), I don't think this is Sony's year. I predict a third-place finish behind Wii and X360, respectively.