What was/is your reason to get a PS3?

Atleast for me one of the main reason why I finally decided to get a PS3 is because of the Exclusive games that are only on the PS3, and of course of Blu-ray movies, and to play games online with my friend that had a PS3 since it was released.
For instance I have always been a Playstation fanatic as I had a PS1 and a PS2 since their release dates and never had an original Xbox, and I was pissed that the PS3 wasn't coming to out until a year after the Xbox360 so I decided that I could not wait until another year to get a PS3 so I decided to get the Xbox360. So after another 1 year and 8 months later after the release date I finally got a PS3, which I should be getting in the mail in a couple of days.
I bought off of Ebay a brand-new/sealed 80gb PS3 MGS4 Bundle, and I also bought off of Ebay Resistance: Fall of Man and MotorStorm and Lair and all 4 of those games are PS3 Exclusive only games.
Since i have had an Xbox360 for over 2 years now I have some of the Xbox360 Exclusive only games and I have alot of other games that I like that are also on the PS3, so getting those games again on the PS3 would be a waste of money because I will still buy and play games on my Xbox360.
Now lets say that I had decided to buy the PS3 first over the Xbox360 then it would be for the same reason, as I would have got an Xbox360 mainly for the Xbox360 Exclusive only games like Mass Effect and a few others.
Not to say that there aren't any games that I have on my Xbox360 that I would not get on the PS3 as I said before I do have a friend that has a PS3 and I would like to play games with him online, so I will eventually get COD4 which he plays online alot. Also the only other game that I already have on the Xbox360 that I will be getting soon on the PS3 is GTAIV, because it is just that great of a game and it is worth it to buy again as I would love to check out any differences in the single-player and the online multi-player.

So what was/is your reason to get a PS3?

Just wanted to keep playing the Playstation franchises that I loved: God of War, Ratchet and Clank, Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy, Tekken...The_Pig_Hostage

1. Blu-ray

2. Free online play

3. continuations of PS2 games like Ratchet and Clank, God of War and Killzone.

4. Warhawk, Uncharted, Resistance, Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm, Killzone 2, Little Big Planet, Ratchet ToD, MotorStorm, Home etc. Possibly another Jak game too.

5. Low failure rate.

The JRPGs.

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It's a good thing I'm open to new experiences.

The JRPGs.

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It's a good thing I'm open to new experiences.

AnFangs_Endes

:? that sucks...tides have turned when it comes to JRPGS...360 is hogging all of them..and its a american console :?

My top five in that order:

1. 360 failure rate

2. Blu-ray. I got mine in the heat of the blu-ray hd war and banked on blu-ray.

3. Free online

4. Exclusives looked cool. Uncharted, r&c, mgs4, dmc4, others....

5. big collection of ps2 games/sony's reliability with good consoles

I stayed out of the current generation of consoles until very recently. There was a time when I thought about getting an Xbox360, but as I look into their lineup of games, nothing really grabbed my attention as an exclusive except Halo 3. On top of that, 360 seemed to have an unreasonably high failure rate. The MGS4 bundle was a huge selling point for me. Backwards compatibility (the only last-gen console I have is a Gamecube), a decent sized hard drive, MGS4, and a Dualshock 3 made it worth it, at least in my mind.

I also enjoy RPGs. Now, I know that the 360 has had a growing number of RPGs, but I don't think their quality competes with the ones on PS3. Sure, the same developers/producers worked on some of them, but they didn't make great games (Blue Dragon).

Overall, I think the PS3 has a lot of potential. Microsoft may be winning over a lot of developers into making multiplatform games, butI just don't think the quality is up to par.

I'll add reason that iv recently found

Eternal Sonata, FF13vs, FF13, White knight story, Valkyria Chronicles, Disagaea 3, God of War 3, Soul Calibur 4, Street Fighter 4, Tekken 6, Last Remant, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Devil May Cry 4, Killzone 2, Future Dark Cloud 3.

Hopefully tales of vesperia and star ocean 4 come to the dark side soon

Also for the console's excellent reliability and the ability to watch blu ray movies.

I've had a hot and cold relationship with the playstation consoles. I was given a Playstation waaay back in like 98. I amassed a good amount of games for it back then. I'm not the well-informed gamer that I am now so I have some pretty crappy games that haven't aged well.

I didn't get a Playstation 2 until very recently when I was introduced to Guitar Hero. I got one just for that series. I have other games for it now but had it not been for Guitar Hero I would have totally skipped the PS2.

The PS3 came along after a long debate with myself. At that point I had a Wii and a gaming PC but I was still missing out on a few very key genres. Racing, Fighting, hack and slash. These usually don't show up or do too well on either Wii or PC so I wanted either a 360 or PS3. I extensively went through the game libraries of both systems and determined that there were more exclusives for the Sony console that I wanted compared to that of the other console. That and the failure rate of the competition was unnerving.

Just wanted to keep playing the Playstation franchises that I loved: God of War, Ratchet and Clank, Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy, Tekken...The_Pig_Hostage

agreed, and its the better system in terms of hardware and games.

The JRPGs.

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It's a good thing I'm open to new experiences.

AnFangs_Endes

Can't agree more. The current situation is a little more than 'disappointing'.

Well the reason i got a PS3 was because i've never been disapointed by a Playstation. I've always had great experiences with them. Unfortunately last gen. PS2 was my last system to get. I got the GC first and i was disapointed after SSBM. Then i got a Xbox cause i wanted something fresh was disapointed again. Then about 6 months before the PS3 i decided heck i'll get a PS2. Bought it and have gotten more games than both my xbox and GC combined. And they were all exclusive to the PS2. Xbox i have all multiplats except Halo 1+2 and Fable. GC i have SSBM and thats pretty much it other than some crappy multiplats(NFS:Underground, Dark Alliance, Enter the Matrix, and others). That and well i thought FF was going to be exclusive to PS3 and well now its not but at least i'll still be able to play it.

Just wanted to keep playing the Playstation franchises that I loved: God of War, Ratchet and Clank, Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy, Tekken...The_Pig_Hostage

just take out tekken and gran turismo and put in jak. plus alot of sonys new ips are great like motorstorm, heavenly sword, resistance, and uncharted

1. most of the games on 360 can be found on a pc (especially shooters)

2. most of the games that i really loved is exclusive to sony (well ffxiii just went multi plat and dmc4 2 so the list is getting smaller) and i was only interested in 4 games with xbox360-lost oddysey,mass effect,forza, n gears

3. free online

4. failure rate

i was actually going to purchase a 360 over a ps3 until i did a lot of research the week i was going to get it. i factored in the games i wanted and i figured ps3 was my better choice. im happy with the decision.

i wanted the best system and i didnt want to have to pay for online service because i knew i would have my ps3 for a long time.

that and the shock factor of having one... back when it cost 600

[QUOTE="AnFangs_Endes"]

The JRPGs.

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It's a good thing I'm open to new experiences.

StanAce

Can't agree more. The current situation is a little more than 'disappointing'.

we still get to play ff13... i dont see the big deal. plus we wont have to change discs 4 or more times. lost oddesy was 3 discs, i cant even imagine how many a final fantasy will be

Blu-ray

MGS4

Continue with sony since I've palyed PS, PS2.

cheers

For gaming.DNChan

we still get to play ff13... i dont see the big deal. plus we wont have to change discs 4 or more times. lost oddesy was 3 discs, i cant even imagine how many a final fantasy will be

shroom76

Okay, shall I put it like this? Note, I said JRPGs, not just Final Fantasy 13.

Sure, we still get to play Final Fantasy 13, who cares if it gets seriously delayed just because the PS3 version doesn't get released outside of Japan until they're done porting it to the other system?

We get Eternal Sonata. A year later than the other system got it. Understandable. At least we're getting miniscule exclusive content. Huzzah.

Star Ocean 4, which was thought to be confirmed for quite a while to be coming to the PS3 as exclusive, or even otherwise isn't even coming now. This is starting to get annoying.

Tales of Vesperia sure looks nice. Too bad it's not coming out for the PS3, even though you'd think it would be since it's doing better in the country it's being made in than the system it's actually on is doing. This is pretty annoying.

We'll get Last Remnant, even though it might not be an exclusive, we are indeed still getting it. Later than the 360 version; instead of having the same arbitrary release restrictions imposed upon it by Square Enix like they're doing with the PS3 version of Final Fantasy 13. Progressing far past simple annoyances here.

Well, we've still got White Knight Story coming out, which will stay exclusive, unlike many other games. Eventually. Sometime in the future.

Final Fantasy Versus XIII is still exclusive. Though it will more than likely be made a multiplat provided that FF13 sells well on the other system, since you can't rely on Square Enix being 'loyal' anymore without the PS2's numbers on the PS3's side. Oh, and it's nowhere near release anyways.

Kingdom Hearts 3 won't likely be a PS3 exclusive either, since, if trends with Square Enix show anything, it'll be on the Wii, or be a multiplat on the 360 and PS3. Yay.

We don't even have any good JRPGs out right now to tide us over until this drought (and I hope that's all it is; a drought) is over.

Sony even admitted they're not even working on any JRPGs at the moment to help the drought along.

[QUOTE="1Up in an interview with Sony"]Does Sony have anything in the works that might appeal to Japanese role-playing-game fans specifically?1Up writing down the response of Sony

Do we have an RPG in the works? No.

Oh, and multiple discs has never bothered me when it comes to JRPGs. If it did I never would have played some of my favourite games. As I'm sure many, many, others would not have played their favourites. Need I add how many of the greatest PS1 JRPGs had multiple discs?

What a great system for JRPGs!

[QUOTE="shroom76"]

we still get to play ff13... i dont see the big deal. plus we wont have to change discs 4 or more times. lost oddesy was 3 discs, i cant even imagine how many a final fantasy will be

AnFangs_Endes

Okay, shall I put it like this? Note, I said JRPGs, not just Final Fantasy 13.

Sure, we still get to play Final Fantasy 13, who cares if it gets seriously delayed just because the PS3 version doesn't get released outside of Japan until they're done porting it to the other system?

We get Eternal Sonata. A year later than the other system got it. Understandable. At least we're getting miniscule exclusive content. Huzzah.

Star Ocean 4, which was thought to be confirmed for quite a while to be coming to the PS3 as exclusive, or even otherwise isn't even coming now. This is starting to get annoying.

Tales of Vesperia sure looks nice. Too bad it's not coming out for the PS3, even though you'd think it would be since it's doing better in the country it's being made in than the system it's actually on is doing. This is pretty annoying.

We'll get Last Remnant, even though it might not be an exclusive, we are indeed still getting it. Later than the 360 version; instead of having the same arbitrary release restrictions imposed upon it by Square Enix like they're doing with the PS3 version of Final Fantasy 13. Progressing far past simple annoyances here.

Well, we've still got White Knight Story coming out, which will stay exclusive, unlike many other games. Eventually. Sometime in the future.

Final Fantasy Versus XIII is still exclusive. Though it will more than likely be made a multiplat provided that FF13 sells well on the other system, since you can't rely on Square Enix being 'loyal' anymore without the PS2's numbers on the PS3's side. Oh, and it's nowhere near release anyways.

Kingdom Hearts 3 won't likely be a PS3 exclusive either, since, if trends with Square Enix show anything, it'll be on the Wii, or be a multiplat on the 360 and PS3. Yay.

We don't even have any good JRPGs out right now to tide us over until this drought (and I hope that's all it is; a drought) is over.

Sony even admitted they're not even working on any JRPGs at the moment to help the drought along.

[QUOTE="1Up in an interview with Sony"]Does Sony have anything in the works that might appeal to Japanese role-playing-game fans specifically?1Up writing down the response of Sony

Do we have an RPG in the works? No.

Oh, and multiple discs has never bothered me when it comes to JRPGs. If it did I never would have played some of my favourite games. As I'm sure many, many, others would not have played their favourites. Need I add how many of the greatest PS1 JRPGs had multiple discs?

What a great system for JRPGs!

tl;dr owned

My top five in that order:

1. SONY OWNZ!

2. Blu-ray. I got mine in the heat of the blu-ray hd war and banked on blu-ray.

3. Free online

4. Exclusives looked cool. Uncharted, r&c, mgs4, dmc4, others....

5. big collection of ps2 games/sony's reliability with good consoles

MaForce

my words exact.. :)

- Blu-Ray

- PS3 exclusives

- always loved playstation since ps1